It’s never too early to start looking ahead and getting excited about what the next 12 months might hold.

We’ve got a calendar of events, from national holidays to Kent’s unmissable festivals and days out, so you can start filling up your 2025 diary…

JANUARY

1: New Year’s Day

24-25: Gravesham Light Festival

29: Chinese New Year

FEBRUARY

13: Sydnie Christmas at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury

14: Valentine’s Day

25: Kent & Medway Food & Drink Awards at Chilston Park Hotel, Maidstone

MARCH

2: Maidstone Road Run

4: Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)

5: Ash Wednesday

6: World Book Day

8: Brickwrecks: Sunken Ships in Lego Bricks at the Historic Dockyard Chatham

21: Red Nose Day

30: Mother’s Day

APRIL

5: Heritage Transport Show at the Kent Event Centre, Detling

18: Good Friday

18-20: Easter Food Festival, Broadstairs

20: Easter Sunday

21: Easter Monday

23: St George’s Day

MAY

3-5: Sweeps Festival, Rochester

5: Early May bank holiday

17: Inflatable 5k at Brands Hatch, West Kingsdown

17: Kent Food Fest at Little Elses, Knockholt

17-18: Faversham Festival of Transport

23-25: Rock the Mote at Mote Park, Maidstone

25: The Colour Run at Betteshanger Park, Deal

25: Got the Love Festival at Quex Park, Birchington-on-Sea

26: Late May bank holiday

JUNE

6-7: CAMRA Real Ale and Cider Festival at the Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden

7: Canterbury Pride

13: Scooter at Dreamland, Margate

14: Festability at Quex Park, Birchington-on-Sea

14: Rewind Festival at Dreamland, Margate

15: Father’s Day

20: Jools Holland at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone

20: Supergrass at Dreamland, Margate

28: Armed Forces Day

JULY

4-6: Kent County Show at the Kent Event Centre, Detling

5: The Libertines at Dreamland, Margate

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

12: Margate Reggae Festival at Dreamland

12: Leeds Castle Concert, near Maidstone

18: Texas at Dreamland, Margate

19: Sausage and Cider Festival at Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells

19: Start of the Folkestone Triennial

18-20: Maid of Stone Festival at Mote Park, Maidstone

25-26: Blue Reef Festival at Loddington Farm in Linton, Maidstone

26: Basement Jaxx at Dreamland, Margate

31-3: Chickenstock Music Festival at Pett Wood Cottage, Stockbury

AUGUST

1-3: Margate Soul Festival

2: Madness at Dreamland, Margate

8: Roger Daltrey at Dreamland, Margate

9: Margate Pride

9-15: Broadstairs Folk Week

15: Olly Murs at Dreamland, Margate

15-17: A New Day Festival at Mount Ephraim, near Faversham

16-17: Manston International Airshow, near Ramsgate

16-17: Biddenden Tractorfest at Holden Farm

23-25: We Love Hythe Food and Drink Festival at Hythe Green

23: Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter at Dreamland, Margate

24: Kent Tribute Festival at Strode Park, Herne Bay

24: Maribou State at Dreamland, Margate

25: Summer bank holiday

30-31: Faversham Hop Festival

SEPTEMBER

20-21: Paws in the Park at the Kent Event Centre, Detling

OCTOBER

3-5: Autumn Food Festival, Broadstairs

31: Halloween

NOVEMBER

5: Guy Fawkes Night

9: Remembrance Sunday

11: Remembrance Day

21: Children in Need

DECEMBER

12: Christmas Jumper Day

24: Christmas Eve

25: Christmas Day

26: Boxing Day

31: New Year’s Eve