Our Guide To Scotland's Festivals offers comprehensive coverage in print and online of festivals and events happening in Scotland in 2025.

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Festivals are something Scotland does well. You might know about the big outdoor music events featuring some of the biggest names in the business, or the world-beating cultural gathering of the Edinburgh festivals in August, but alongside these are hundreds of others covering themes across the arts, culture, science, sport, food and drink, outdoor activities and heritage. In print and online we aim to give you the most comprehensive round-up available of what’s on the festival front in 2025, to allow you to plan, share, discover, dream and, hopefully, get involved. 

Read this year's edition below: 

Read more:

• Our bumper list of recommendations featuring a festival for every personality type 
• We discuss the festivals thriving further afield, whether you’re hoping to hop on a ferry or travel down south 
• Profiles of a few of the hundreds of festivals and events taking place in 2025, including HippFest, Orkney Folk Festival, Hidden Door, Doof In The Park, and more 

Our GSF playlist

We’ve assembled a playlist of many acts touring the Scottish festival circuit next year. Give it a listen below and find out who they are and where they’re touring in this article. 

Adding a new event to the listings:

Add a new festival or update an existing listing by emailing [email protected]

Data Thistle maintains Scottish festival listings on a year-round basis.

As well as listings for festivals themselves, we welcome programme information which can be added via the online process, or if you have 30 or more events within the festival you can supply them via a spreadsheet. Contact [email protected]

Distribution of the guide:

Copies of the guide are distributed as a supplement with the first edition of The List magazine each year and others are made available across London. The guide is also distributed by VisitScotland and Creative Scotland to key cultural and visitor hotspots across Scotland, ranging from museums to shopping centres. They are also made available at a number of events.

If you would like to advertise in the guide, print or online, you can take a look at the packages we offer on our rate card or email [email protected].

Credits:

The Guide to Scotland's Festivals 2025 was published by The List in February 2025.

In publishing this guide, as well as constantly updating information about what's on all over Scotland at list.co.uk, The List thanks and acknowledges our principal partner Creative Scotland and our supporting partner EventScotland in recognising the important role festivals play in the country's cultural life.