Summer 2024 festival guide
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Hands up if you've been waiting for the 2024 summer festivals! It's well worth the wait - because the summer will be full of festivals again. There's a festival for every summer weekend, in every genre of music from rock to alternative, folk to pop, machine to classical. There's also a festival for burger lovers, wine or brewery beer, art and dance.
The best festivals for summer 2024 are here - find yours in our summer festival guide!
For many, festivals are the best place to get away from it all and enjoy the Finnish summer. So immerse yourself in the wonderful summer world and the atmosphere that unfolds before you at festivals. Find your own event in our festival guide and claim your tickets with your Virike benefit from Tiketti*, Lippu.fi or Ticketmaster for example.
JUNE 2024
Hiljaisuus festival
6.-9.6.2024 The multi-art Silence Festival takes place in the village of Kaukonen in Kittilä.
Sideways 2024
13.-15.6.2024 Sideways will be back at Nordis in Helsinki.
Helsinki City Festival
14.-15.6.2024 A new festival brings top artists to Töölö. Nylon Beat, Deadmau5, Robin Schulz, Inna, Las Ketchup and other favourite artists will keep the party going.
Saaristo 2024
7.6.–8.6.2024 The festival features top Finnish artists for two days and this year for the first time on three stages.
St. Olaf Summerfest 2024
7.6.-8.6.2024 Savonlinna's summer opening and the freshest city festival of the summer will take place in Savonlinna's Kirkkopuisto.
XXL Kesä Mössö 2024
14.6.-15.6.2024 At the two-day festival, some of Finland's most popular bands will perform, including, for example, Haloo Helsinki!, Vesterinen Yhtyeineen, Käärijä, Portion Boys, Maija Vilkkumaa, Laura Voutilainen, and Anssi Kela.
Varjo 2024
14.–15.6.2024 Varjo, a festival of urban music, culture and art, is held for the fourth time in Oulu's Kuusisaari.
Freesi fest
14.6. -15.6.2024 Rock and pop, Lieto, Jams Bar courtyard.
Nummirock
19.-22.6. 2024 The traditional heavier Midsummer celebration will again be held in Nummijärvi, Kauhajoki, over four days.
Himos Juhannus
20.-22.06.2024 The biggest party of the year in Himos with star artists and bands.
RMJ 2024
20.–22.6.2024 Finland's biggest beach party will take place next Midsummer in Rauma, when RMJ brings a big line-up of international names to Otanlahti Beach Park.
Solstice Festival 2024
20.-22.6.2024 Festival at Ruka-tunturi in the midnight sun of northern Finland on Midsummer's Eve, for people who enjoy both music and nature.
Tahko Juhannus 2024
20.-22.6.2024 You will find the hottest afterski of Midsummer in Tahko!
Haapavesi Folk Music Festival
27.-29.6.2024 The public is offered three days of musical joy and unique experiences.
Iskelmä Festival 2024 Himos
27.6.-29.6.2024 Three-day festival, during which top Finnish artists take the stage.
Provinssi
27.6.-29.6.2024 Provinssi, one of Finland's largest and longest-running festivals, is organized over three days with a rich lineup of both foreign and domestic artists.
Iskelmä Festival 2024 Pori
28.6.-29.6.2024 Rock and pop and famous artists in Pori's Kirjurinluoto.
LankaFest
28.6.-29.6.2024 LankaFest, organized in Puolanga's market area, has remained rock/heavy focused since the beginning.
Rotuaari Piknik
28.6.-29.6.2024 The legendary central city garden party will return to Oulu's summer in 2024!
Tuska
28.6.-30.6.2024 The traditional Tuska festival will be held again in Helsinki's Suvilahti on the weekend after Midsummer.
JULY 2024
Puistoblues
6.7.2024 Finland's largest volunteer-run festival in Järvenpää, where you can get a big dose of rootsy music.
MadFest
5.7.-6.7.2024 A rock and metal festival held in Iisalmi, amidst the picturesque Paloskoski scenery.
Jysäri
4.7-6.7.2024 Finland's largest 90's festival Jysäri is celebrated over three days in Himos, Jämsä.
Rantajamit
4.-6.7.2024 Featuring popular Finnish artists, the 30th anniversary event is located at a familiar spot on the Aurlahti beach in Lohja.
Ilovaari
5.-6.7.2024 Memories dressed in music and new and old sung stories. Performed by artists who were already good back then. That's what Ilovaari is. Ilovaari will be celebrated in July 2024 for two days in Ilosaari.
Wanaja Festival
5.-6.7.2024 Hämpton's pride serves a solid selection of domestic top names in Finland's most beautiful festival area.
Ruisrock
5.–7.7.2024 Ruisrock is one of Finland's leading and oldest cultural events. At the three-day festival, you can enjoy a versatile music and art program as well as high-quality restaurant services in the scenic Ruissalo.
Kuhmo chamber music
14.-27.7.2024, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival resonates with its 54th theme, Borderline. Over the course of two festival weeks, more than 200 compositions will be performed in 60 festival concerts. Kuhmo will echo from morning till late at night. In addition to the concerts, there will be artist and composer meetings, program and instrument presentations, free concerts by course participants, as well as art exhibitions.
Suomipop Festivaali Jyväskylä
11.-13.7.2024 Domestic music will take over Finland for three days when the Suomipop Festival is celebrated in Jyväskylä!
Suomipop Festivaali Oulu
11.-13.7.2024 Domestic music will take over Finland for three days when the Suomipop Festival is celebrated in Oulu!
Vauhti Kiihtyy! -Festivaali Turku
12.-13.7.2024 A new festival that stars a bunch of favourite Finnish artists such as Portion Boys, Battle Beast, and Popeda, who will play their only Turku show of the summer.
Ilosaarirock
12.-14.7.2024 One of the biggest and most captivating festivals in Finland once again brings big names and interesting discoveries to the public.
Tammerfest
18.–20.7.2024 Celebrated in the immediate vicinity of the center of Tampere, Tammerfest brings, as usual, a massive program to the three-day festival.
Tikkurila Festivaali
18.-20.7.2024 The high-quality Tikkurila Festival will take place next summer in the heart of Vantaa during the best summer festival season. The three-day event celebrated in the Hiekkaharju sports park is the largest city festival in the capital region.
Vauhtiajot Rock & Race Festival
18.-21.7.2024 Finland's only race & rock festival Seinäjoki Vauhtiajot turns 21 this year!
Summer Sound Festival 2024
19.-20.7.2024 The legendary Kaapelitehdas will be transformed into an electronic music spectacle for two days.
Odysseus
19.–20.7.2024 The Odysseus Festival, dedicated to adventurous music, is moving to the Culture Factory Korjaamo, where the event will spread across all indoor spaces of Korjaamo and also onto its atmospheric summer courtyard.
Slot Festival
19.-20.7.2024 Slot Festival is a new festival celebrated in July in the atmospheric and historical Turun Linnanpuisto. The festival program features international star artists and prominent Finnish names, with a touch of nostalgia. Comfort, a good atmosphere, and high-quality services play a crucial role in the festival experience at Slot Festival.
Kuopiorock 2024
25.-27.7.2024 Savo's biggest rock festival turns 20 this year!
Saimaa Sounds Goes Metal
26.7.2024 The most metallic park festival take place in Mikkeli in Mikkelipuisto.
Headland
26.-27.7.2024 Modern 2020 century music festival in Lahti.
AUGUST 2024
Weekend Festival 2024
2.-3.8.2024 The most popular party of the summer return to the capital region, Vermo event park in Espoo. The artist coverage will include the top names in dance, rap and pop music.
Power Festival
2.7.-3.8.2024 The festival lands in Järvenpää and offers visitors a wonderful setting in Järvenpää's beach park.
Dark River Festival
8.-10.8.2024 Just the right size, Finland's most independent, personal and local metal festival is coming again. Experience Finland's most audience-friendly metal festival!
Hellsinki Metal Festival
9.-10.8.2024 Helsinki's heavy music offering gets more colorful when a completely new outdoor festival lands at Nordis, in the area of the Helsinki Jäähalli.
Hoodfest
9.-10.8.2024 Hoodfest will be organized for the third time at the Kuopionlahti field. In its previous years, the legendary festival has gathered thousands of visitors from all over Finland to celebrate with the top names in domestic and foreign hip-hop.
Vauhti Kiihtyy! -Festival Vantaa
9.-10.8.2024 A total of fifteen of Finland's favourite artists will star at this new festival, which will take place at Tikkurila Sports Park on 9-10 August. The headliner will be announced at the beginning of the summer, but the list of artists already includes Battle Beast, Popeda, Stig and Michael Monroe.
Simerock 2024
9.-10.8.2024 Simerock returns bigger than ever. The festival will be held at the Ounaspaviljonki in Rovaniemi during the warm evenings of August.
Flow Festival
9.-11.8.2024 Flow Festival, the Helsinki festival that started from its founders' passion for music and urban culture, has been organized since 2004. Flow has grown from an intimate club event into one of Europe's most interesting music and art festivals.
Rauma Blues 2024 Festival
15-17.8.2024 The festival is one of the top festivals in the international blues field.
Koiteli elää #suomenkauneinfestivaali 2024
16.-17.8.2024 #suomenkauneinfestivali returns to delight the summer events in Oulu!
Blockfest
16.-17.8.2024 Blockfest will take over Tampere's central again in August and bring the hottest and most interesting international and domestic artists to the city.
Tapiola festival
16.-17.8.2024 The Tapiola sports park in Espoo is buzzing when the city festival organized for the first time last year and immediately sold out returns. This year the area is bigger than last year and there are three platforms instead of two.
Kyröfest
17.8.2024 Kyröfest is celebrated again in the grounds of the Kyrö distillery. Kyröfest offers a range of contemporary domestic music, wonderful dance works, distillery tours, tastings and workshops, tasty food and, of course, a very special selection of delicious rye cocktails flavored with love.
Festivaali
23.-24.8.2024 Located in the heart of nature, on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi, the Festival brings to Pyynik a convincing and up-to-date coverage of top artist in indie and pop music as well as local services.
Vauhti Kiihtyy! -Festivaali Oulu
23.-24.8.2024 See 15 great artists in Oulu for the price of a club ticket! Erika Vikman, Turmion Kätilöt, Mikael Gabriel and Ressu Redford.
Vauhti Kiihtyy! -Festivaali Tampere
30.-31.8.2024 Tampere will party to Popeda, Battle Beast, Teflon Brothers, Jonne Aaron and Jukka Poja!
You can find all the tickets on the Tiketti festival site*, Lippu.fi Edenred's ticket shop* or Ticketmaster's Edenred section*.
P.S. Remember to pay your tickets with Edenred's Virike benefit!
*In Finnish