23. January - 09 February 2025: The Winterwerft in Frankfurt is a festival for experimental theater that addresses questions of home, resistance and survival in times of crisis in an interactive theater laboratory, combining theater, performance, music and dance with workshops, an inclusive, solidarity-based environment and a children's program.
April 26 - 27, 2025: The Boom! Design Festival in Bad Homburg is a creative event that combines joie de vivre, sustainability, design, good food and music, with up to 200 exhibitors, live street music, children's fun and gourmet food trucks - an experience for the whole family with free admission.
25 May 2025: The Festival4Family at and in the Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt. Germany's ultimate festival for families with a stage program, play and adventure park and the family fair.
05. - 08. June 2025: The Schlossgrabenfest in Darmstadt is a popular music and culture festival that brings the city center to life every year with a variety of live performances, culinary delights and a colourful supporting programme.
06 - 08 June 2025: Rock am Ring is one of the biggest rock festivals in Europe, which takes place annually at the legendary Nürburgring and is just a 90-minute drive from Frankfurt - 2025 with headliners such as The Prodigy, Slipknot, Rise Against and many more.
06 - 09. June 2025: The OPEN OHR Festival in Mainz is a four-day cultural festival on the Mainz Citadel that attracts approx. 11,000 visitors every year with music, theater, cabaret, discussion rounds and action art and offers a platform for education and exchange with over 100 speakers from politics, culture, science and business.
06. - 08. June 2025: The World Club Dome is an electronic music festival that has been held annually since 2013 and transforms Frankfurt into the world's biggest club at the end of May or beginning of June.
13. - 22. June 2025: The Hessentag is an annual festival that celebrates the Hessian way of life with a variety of concerts, events, cultural programs and regional specialties and this year puts the city of Bad Vilbel in the spotlight for ten days.
19. June - 07. August 2025: Summer in the City Mainz is an annual open-air concert series that provides an unforgettable open-air experience with a varied summer program in the most beautiful squares in Mainz.
21 June - 06. September 2025: The Rheingau Music Festival is a renowned summer festival that presents concerts of classical music, jazz and other genres in historic castles, churches and wineries in the picturesque setting of the Rheingau region.
12. - 13. July 2025: The Love Family Park Frankfurt is a renowned electronic music festival with top acts such as Sven Väth and Deborah De Luca, which has been held annually since 1996 and delights around 10,000 fans of electronic music.
At the beginning of July 2025: The STOFFEL in Frankfurt is a popular open-air event in Günthersburgpark that has been offering live music, theater, readings, children's activities and many other attractions in a unique atmosphere for 20 years.
Mid-July 2025: The Sommerwerft - Theaterfestival am Fluss in Frankfurt is an international performance, dance and theater festival that presents artistic and cultural highlights right on the riverbank for two weeks every year at the Weseler Werft in the heart of the city.
25. - 27. July 2025: The Trebur Open Air is a three-day indie, rock and pop festival that takes place at the outdoor pool in Trebur and combines music, summer atmosphere and friendship.
31. July - 03. August 2025: Sound of the Forest in Bad König is a cross-genre music festival where the festival grounds, stages, campsite and nature merge into a unique playground for open-minded people, nestled in the dense greenery of the Odenwald for an unforgettable experience.
31. July - 03. August 2025: The Nature One in Kastellaun is one of the largest electronic music festivals in Germany, attracting thousands of visitors every year with international DJs and impressive light and sound systems and is only 80 minutes away from Frankfurt by car.
08 - 17. August 2025: The Frankfurt Cider Festival celebrates the traditional Frankfurt drink with a diverse stage and supporting program.
05. - 06. September 2025: The Craft Beer Festival Frankfurt brings together beer lovers and brewing artists to celebrate the diversity of craft beers in a relaxed atmosphere and offer exceptional beers and exciting discussions with brewmasters.
06. - 08. September 2025: The Riviera Festival Offenbach is an eclectic open-air festival on the banks of the River Main that offers a unique experience with electronic music, art installations and a relaxed atmosphere.
11. - 14. September 2025: The Glücksgefühle Festival is Germany's largest music festival, just a 70-minute drive from Frankfurt, which takes place annually at the Hockenheimring and provides four days of pure musical euphoria with live performances from the pop, hip-hop, rock and EDM genres.
12. - 14. September 2025: The Frankfurt Coffee Festival in Klassikstadt Frankfurt is a platform for coffee lovers that celebrates enthusiasm and passion for coffee.
13. - 15. September 2025: BLOW - Music Festival Frankfurt is a three-day music festival at ZOOM that brings together the hottest trends in the international and local music scene and redefines musical boundaries with over 60 live acts and DJs from genres such as electro, indie, rap and techno.
16. - 20. September 2025: Fratopia - Festival of Discoveries Frankfurt is a five-day cultural festival at the Alte Oper Frankfurt that invites all generations to wander between concert halls and genres and experience music in new and exciting ways.
23. September - 05 October 2025: The Kronberg Festival "Good Vibrations" is an international music festival organized by Kronberg Academy that invites people to experience and use the powerful effects of music.
02. - 04. October 2025: The Frankfurt Burlesque Festival is a glamorous event that provides unforgettable shows, glittering surprises and a diverse international line-up every year with a mixture of burlesque, cabaret, rock'n'roll and circus elements in the Jahrhunderthalle.
15 - 19. October 2025: The Frankfurt Kids Festival at the Book Fair is a lively event that inspires young readers and their families with interactive readings, workshops and creative activities all about the world of children's literature.
31 October - 17. November 2025: The Rhine-Main Dance Festival brings dance to the stage in a wide variety of formats, from large-scale performances to intimate events and offers a platform for well-known dance stars and up-and-coming talents with world premieres and guest performances in cities such as Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Offenbach and Wiesbaden, accompanied by workshops and dialogues between artists and audiences.
14 - 23. November 2025: The exground filmfest in Wiesbaden, an important platform for independent international cinema productions since 1990, presents feature-length and short films, arthouse productions and current cinema highlights in a sophisticated program and also serves as an important meeting place for trade visitors, journalists and multipliers from the film industry.