MAIN SUMMER FESTIVALS: 2025
Organ Festival in Bouc de Bel Air: April 27 2025 20€/ person.
European Museum Night: Closest Saturday to May 18
Since 2005, selected European museums have exceptionally opened for a night, free of charge, as part of European Museum Night. The event takes place on the closest Saturday to 18 May, simultaneously in countries that have signed the Council of Europe’s cultural convention. Over 1,200 French museums take part in European Museum Night, and 98% of them open to the public free of charge between 6 pm and midnight
Formula 1–Monaco: May 22-25 2025
Beer Festival in Avignon: May 29-31 2025
Aix in June: June 13-30 2025
A prelude to the July Festival, open to all audiences and completely free, Aix in June transforms the city of Aix-en-Provence and its surrounding area into an open-air concert venue. From June 13 to 30, spectators and amateurs, talents from the Academy and guest artists of the Festival mingle in a joyful atmosphere of musical sharing and abundant exchanges. The full program will be online after May the 28th
Orange Opera Festival: June 13-July 25 2025
Every year, “les Chorégies of Orange” composes popular operas, classes, music shows, and other musical representations. www.choregies.fr
World Music Day: June 21, 2025
Nîmes Music Festival: June 22 – July 24, 2025
Since 1997, the exceptional site of the arenas of Nîmes has been invested for a month with rock concerts and contemporary music.
Festival Jazz Music under the stars at Bouc Bel Air: June 30-July 5 2025
7th edition of jazz under the stars festival! A rhythmic and captivating program, a friendly atmosphere, and exceptional locations promise unforgettable evenings under the starry sky.
International Folklore Festival in Marseille: July 1-11 2025
International Guitar Festival in Lambesc: July 3-6 2025
Clarisse Sans, Martin Vieilly and Arnaud Sans, all three guitarists, offer you an exceptional new program.
Jazz en Sol Mineur: July 3-5 2025
The 22nd edition, the festival will offer 7 exceptional concerts
Lyrics Arts Festival : July 4-22 2025
Operas, classical music concerts and other performances are held at several venues in Aix en Provence
Aix en Provence Festival: July 4-21 2025
Created in 1948, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence quickly emerged as one of the leading events of the opera season. It also proved to be a place for innovation and renewal, with the festival’s unique capacity to surprise the audience and introduce them to new horizons, forms, and artists. Dedicated to creating new opera productions and organizing high-quality concerts, the Festival enjoys great renown, permitting it to join forces with stage directors at the height of its art, visionary orchestras and conductors, first-class casts, and the most outstanding contemporary composers around. Thanks to its reputation, it engages in coproductions with the finest opera houses in the world, which continue to welcome the Festival’s productions throughout the seasons.
Avignon Festival (Theatre): July 5-26 2025
The Festival d’Avignon is one of the most important international events for contemporary performing arts. Every year, in July, Avignon becomes a theater city, transforming its architectural heritage into various majestic or astonishing performance venues, welcoming tens of thousands of theater lovers of all generations (more than 130,000 admissions). See
Les rencontres d’Arles: July 7 – October 5 2025
Arles brings together the best photographers worldwide each year and opens up new artistic horizons.
French National Day July 14
A symbolic day celebrating national union and the end of the absolute monarchy
Les suds à Arles (Music): July 14-20, 2025
There will be 7 days and 6 nights of music shows, www.suds-arles.com
Piano Festival at La Roque d’Anthéron: July 19 – August 17, 2025
For four decades, the La Roque d’Anthéron Festival has been for all those who, through the piano, dare to express their originality and personality.
Music Festival in Gordes: August 4-11 2025
This festival is a story of encounters, sharing and passion between all those who believe that art, creation, music and culture can change the world, bring a touch of lightness, optimism and hope.
Font’Arts: August 8-10, 2025
Every summer at the beginning of August, the Provençal village of Pernes-les-Fontaines lends its shady setting and the freshness of its old stones to the Font’Arts Street Theater and Music Festival. For a whole weekend, around forty companies perform free of charge around the alleys and in the squares of the small town. For its 18th edition, about forty companies will perform for free here and there, around the corners of the squares and gardens, stroll through the alleys to meet the public and make the city with 40 fountains vibrate!
L’Isle sur la Sorgue International fair: August 15-17, 2025
L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue International Fair transforms the town into a big outdoor art market, with four major exhibition centres: antiques & secondhand goods, old books, contemporary art, design & decoration.
Delta Festival in Marseille: August 27-31 2025
It will be 5 days of party on the beach of “Plages du Prado” in Marseille. The lineup includes a program that includes several concert stages and themed villages. While world-renowned artists such as Carl Cox and Sean Paul have already graced the Delta Festival stage in recent years, more than 100 artists will perform throughout the Marseille festival in the summer of 2025.
Bol d’Or: September, 18-21 2025
The Circuit Paul Ricard in Castellet, a legendary 24-hour international motorcycle race, will take place on the Paul Ricard circuit in Le Castellet! This is the 88th edition of this legendary race! The Bol d’Or is the Oldest endurance motorcycle race in the world.
Saint-Rémy Jazz Festival: 18-20 September
