• Kamundagan Festival
    Month-long
    • Kamundagan Festival
    Date: Month-long
    Venue: Naga City
    Brief Description:

    This features “Kiti-Kiti,” “Pastoras,” Bikol Song Festival, and other cultural events.

  • Subayan Keg Subanon
    December 1- 8
    • Subayan Keg Subanon
    Date: December 1- 8
    Venue: Ozamiz City
    Brief Description:

    This involves a trade fair, a street theater performance, and songs and dances depicting the rich Subanon cultural heritage.

  • Paskuhan sa Barangay
    Month-long
    • Paskuhan sa Barangay
    Date: Month-long
    Venue: Parian, Cebu City
    Brief Description:

    This is higlighted by nightly cultural presentations from the different universities in Cebu City.

  • San Fernando Giant Lantern Festival
    Month-long
    • San Fernando Giant Lantern Festival
    Date: Month-long
    Venue: Philippine Christmas Village, San Fernando, Pampanga
    Brief Description:

    This is a lantern showcase where lanterns measuring 14 to 18 feet in diameter delight spectators with their kaleidoscope patterns

  • Pasko sa Tanjay Festival
    December 1 to 9
    • Pasko sa Tanjay Festival
    Date: December 1 to 9
    Venue: Tanjay, Negros Oriental
    Brief Description:

    This is a month-long Christmas festivity featuring cultural presentations and contests..

  • Fiesta de Agoo
    December 5-8
    • Fiesta de Agoo
    Date: December 5-8
    Venue: Agoo Civic Center, Agoo Basilica
    Brief Description:

    This features a Lantern festival, the coronation of Miss Agoo, the awarding of Bannuar ti and Dakilang Datu Awards.

  • Sinadya
    December 5-8
    • Sinadya
    Date: December 5-8
    Venue: Roxas City
    Brief Description:

    This features a fireworks display, a grand parade, a food festival, and the Capiz dance festival.

  • Hanging of the Green
    2nd week
    • Hanging of the Green
    Date: 2nd week
    Venue: Zamboanga City
    Brief Description:

    Children join in the “hanging of the green” signifying the start of the Christmas season.

  • Feast of the Immaculate Concepcion
    December 8
    • Feast of the Immaculate Concepcion
    Date: December 8
    Venue: Puerto Princesa City
    Brief Description:

    This is a grand celebration in honor of the city’s patroness and is highlighted by a parade of several images of Virgin Mary.

  • Pagdiwata
    December 8
    • Pagdiwata
    Date: December 8
    Venue: Palawan
    Brief Description:

    This is the Tagbanuas’ feast of thanksgiving for a bountiful rice harvest along with food offerings to deities and departed kin. The rite involves men and partaking of rice wine with the spirits. After the harvest, the Tagbanuas gather in the house of the babaylan or the priestess whom the spirits speak to.

  • Dad-Iw Day-eng Chants
    December 8
    • Dad-Iw Day-eng Chants
    Date: December 8
    Venue: Bakod, Benguet
    Brief Description:

    This features the Ibaloi, Kankana-ey tribal songs and dance presentations.

  • Karisyohan Han Pasko Ha Palo
    December 10 to January 6
    • Karisyohan Han Pasko Ha Palo
    Date: December 10 to January 6
    Venue: Palo, Leyte
    Brief Description:

    This features a Misa de gallo, a cultura show and a Christmas eve choral concert at Palo Cathedral.

  • Philippine International Lantern Parade
    December 14
    • Philippine International Lantern Parade
    Date: December 14
    Venue: Asia World Complex Roxas Blvd., and Quirino Grandstand
    Brief Description:

    This is a grand colorful parade featuring lanterns from different countries along with local bands, indigenous groups, vintage cars, and calesas.

  • Christmas Among the Tribes
    December 16
    • Christmas Among the Tribes
    Date: December 16
    Venue: Cabarroquis, Quirino
    Brief Description:

    This involves house visitations for Christmas gifts undertaken by the indigenous groups in Quirino.

  • Simballay Festival
    3rd week
    • Simballay Festival
    Date: 3rd week
    Venue: Nabunturan, Davao Province
    Brief Description:

    This is a week-long festival highlighted by Mansaka dances, neo-ethnic shows, street dancing and a grand parade.

  • Shariff Kabunsuan
    December 15-19
    • Shariff Kabunsuan
    Date: December 15-19
    Venue: Cotabato City
    Brief Description:

    This is a celebration to commemorate the arrival of Shariff Kabunsuan and Islam to Mindanao.

  • Pastores Bikol
    December 18
    • Pastores Bikol
    Date: December 18
    Venue: Legaspi City
    Brief Description:

    This involves boys and girls in costumes playing the roles of shepherds who rejoice at the birth of Jesus.

  • Maytinis Festival
    December 24
    • Maytinis Festival
    Date: December 24
    Venue: Kawit, Cavite
    Brief Description:

    This is a town-wide re-enactment of Mary and Joseph’s search for a room on the eve of Christ’s birth.

  • Salubong
    December 29
    • Salubong
    Date: December 29
    Venue: Plaridel, Bulacan
    Brief Description:

    This is procession of dancing women, horses and calesas to fetch the Santiago Maria Moros from Barangay Sipet.

  • Christmas Symbols
    December 1 - January 6
    • Christmas Symbols
    Date: December 1 - January 6
    Venue: Tangub City
    Brief Description:

    A beautiful Christmas Display in Tangub City, the Christmas Symbols Capital of the Philippines is a holiday tradition inspired by love, value for arts and culture exemplified by the illustrious people of the city through this annual event.

    How would you like to travel the world while enjoying the holiday season’s lights and colors? At this laid-back city in Northern Mindanao “Tangub City”, you get a passport to be filled with country stamps when you visit famous landmarks adorned with Christmas lights and colors.

  • Kahumayan Festival
    December 2
    • Kahumayan Festival
    Date: December 2
    Venue: Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte
    Brief Description:

    A tribute to the hardworking, industrious, rice farmers who contributed to the development and prosperity of the municipality. “Humay” is a Visaya word for rice that is abundant in the area (white rice/black rice).

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