Vienna Festivals

Danube Island Festival | Donau Inselfest
Donauinsel zwischen Reichsbrücke und Nordbrücke, Vienna, Austria
Every June, millions (literally) of people gather on Vienna's Danube River, spread across 19 individual islets. Completely free to visitors, over 300 performers of different musical and comedic genres gather to entertain the masses, en masse.

International Film Festival | Viennale Vienna
Uraniastrabe 1, Vienna 1010, Austria
The Vienna film festival is the largest annual film festival in Austria and attracts more than 75,000 celluloid lovers, most of them young, hip cinephiles who gather to view short films, documentaries and experimental works in Vienna's historic theaters. A festival highlight is the Viennale Zentrale, a dance party for festival guests that lasts well into the night.

International Wine Festival | Vienna VieVinum
Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
Surrounded by vineyards, Vienna is one of Europe's top wine-growing regions. Every year, Vienna celebrates its love of wine in one of the city's most regal settings, the imposing Hofburg Palace, where festival-goers gather to swill the world's best wines.

New Year's Eve Trail
Vienna, Austria
Every New Year's Eve, Vienna's historical city center becomes the baroque backdrop for fireworks, dancing and music in the streets.

Rainbow Parade
Vienna, Austria
With every color of the rainbow, Vienna's Rainbow Parade celebrates the world's gay and lesbian community every July with a joyful march down Vienna's Ring Boulevard. This Vienna festival draws hundreds of thousands every year to join in the revelry.

Vienna Festival | Festwochen
Vienna, Austria
Every May and June, Vienna hosts one massive, all-encompassing festival, offering a staggering array of theatre, music and dance at venues all over Vienna under one festival heading. Performers come from all over the world to entertain the culture-savvy.

—Vienna festival reviews by Erica Pedersen