It’s time to start making plans for the next 12 months with our list of unmissable events in Kent in 2024.

From national holidays to music festivals and family days out, you’ll want to start filling our diary now so you don’t miss a thing…

January

1: New Year’s Day

25: Burns Night

26-27: Gravesham Winter Light Festival

28: Bromley 10k at Norman Park

February

10: Chinese New Year

11: The Vaccines at Dreamland, Margate

13: The Vaccines at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone

13: Pancake Day

14: Valentine’s Day

18: Deal Half Marathon at Betteshanger Country Park

25: Dartford Half Marathon at Central Park

27: Kent & Medway Food & Drink Awards at the Spitfire Ground, Canterbury

March

7: World Book Day

10: Mother’s Day

15: Red Nose Day

29: Good Friday

29-31: Broadstairs Food Festival

31: Easter Sunday

April

1: Easter Monday

13: Kaiser Chiefs at Dreamland, Margate

14: Kent Spring Marathon and Half Marathon at Sandyacres Sports Club in Ashford

23: St George’s Day

May

4-6: Sweeps Festival, Rochester

6: Early May bank holiday

18: Inflatable 5k at Brands Hatch, near Fawkham

18-19: Faversham Festival of Transport

25: Hever Festival launches at Hever Castle, Edenbridge

27: Late May bank holiday

31-2: Rock the Mote at Mote Park, Maidstone

June

7-9: Medway Food and Drink Festival at Rochester Castle

8-9: Canterbury Pride

13: Bryan Adams at Dreamland, Margate

14: Madness at Dreamland, Margate

14-16: Black Deer Festival at Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells

15: Sausage and Cider Festival at Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells

16: Father’s Day

29: National Armed Forces Day

July

5: Jack Savoretti at Dreamland, Margate

5-7: Kent County Show at the Kent Showground, Detling

5-7: The Spirit of Tenterden Festival

6: JLS at Dreamland, Margate

12-14: Revival at Mote Park, Maidstone

13: Nile Rodgers and CHIC at Dreamland, Margate

13: Leeds Castle Concert, near Maidstone

13: Mind Over Muscle Festival at Betteshanger Country Park in Deal (TBC)

14-15: CAMRA Real Ale and Cider Festival at Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden

17-21: Hythe Food and Drink Festival

19: Manic Street Preachers at Dreamland, Margate

19-21: Maid of Stone at Mote Park, Maidstone

20: IDLES at Dreamland, Margate

26: Jess Glynne at Dreamland, Margate

26-27: Blue Reef Festival at Loddington Farm, near Maidstone

27: Pete Tong’s Ibiza Classics at Mote Park, Maidstone

27: Sausage and Cider Festival at Quex Park, Birchington-on-Sea

August

2: Craig David at Dreamland, Margate

9-16: Broadstairs Folk Week

10: Margate Pride

12-17: Medway Pride

15: Status Quo at Dreamland, Margate

16: Paloma Faith at Dreamland, Margate

16-18: A New Day Festival at Mount Ephraim, near Faversham

17-18: Deal Folk and Beer Festival at Betteshanger Country Park

23: Busted at Dreamland, Margate

26: Summer bank holiday

31: Becky Hill at Dreamland, Margate

31-1: Faversham Hop Festival

September

6-15: Heritage Open Days

7-8: Salute to the ‘40s at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham (TBC)

20-22: Canterbury’s Cooking at Dane John Gardens

21: Maidstone Comic Con at Mote Park

28: Oktoberfest at Mote Park, Maidstone

October

3-6: Tenterden Folk Festival

11: Scouting For Girls at Dreamland, Margate

31: Halloween

November

5: Guy Fawkes Night

10: Remembrance Sunday

15: Children in Need (TBC)

21: Squeeze at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone

December

5: Christmas Jumper Day

24: Christmas Eve

25: Christmas Day

26: Boxing Day

31: New Year’s Eve