About Houston
Annual Events
- Exact dates for events can be found via www.houstontx.gov/events
- Other events featured via Mayor's Office of Special Events
JANUARY
- Chevron Houston Marathon
- Houston’s largest single-day sporting event. More than 20,000 participants, 200,000 spectators and 5,000 volunteers will take to the streets.
FEBRUARY / MARCH
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
- The annual 20 day rodeo and concert event is the biggest rodeo in the world.
MARCH / APRIL
- Tour de Houston
- Open course bike ride of 20, 40, and 70 miles throughout the City
- Azalea Trail
- These showy flowers flourish at six Houston locations in the River Oaks neighborhood, every other year.
- Bayou City Art Festival (Spring)
- Built on an 8/10 mile asphalt loop surrounded by lush trees, foliage, and picnic areas, the annual, juried, fine art event boasts a stress-free outdoor gallery brimming with 300 artists working in 19 artistic media. Spring art festival takes place at Memorial Park.
APRIL
- Art Car Parade
- Art Car Weekend is non-stop celebration featuring the nation's largest parade of decorated automobiles, a.k.a. Art Cars. Parade begins at 1:00 p.m. at Taft @ Allen Parkway and goes to Bagby before going back outbound along Allen Parkway
- U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships
- The U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships take place at the River Oaks Country Club. It's the second longest-running USTA National Championship in the U.S.. Only the US Open has a longer history.
- San Jacinto Day Festival and Battle Re-Enactment
- Ceremony and reenactment of battle for Texas independence, won on April 21, 1836.
JULY
- Houston's Official July 4th Festival
- Along Buffalo Bayou and Eleanor Tinsley Park, FREEDOM OVER TEXAS, Houston's Official July 4th Celebration, celebrates America's Birthday with a live concert featuring a nationally known and recognized recording artist, and one of the largest fireworks displays in the United States!
OCTOBER
- Wings Over Houston Air Show
- Takes place at Ellington Field, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Houston, via I-45 South.
- Bayou City Art Festival (Fall)
- Held each year the second weekend of October, the Bayou City Art Festival Downtown welcomes the fall season and has created a new Houston Fine Art tradition. Fall art festival takes place at City Hall Reflection Pond.
NOVEMBER
- Veterans Day Parade
- Thanksgiving Day Parade
- In downtown Houston
- Uptown Tree Lighting Ceremony
- When half a million holiday lights simultaneously illuminate 80 Christmas trees lining Post Oak Boulevard, it signals the start of the season. Choirs, bands and a huge fireworks show help stir up holiday spirit the evening of Thanksgiving.
DECEMBER
- Mayor's Official Downtown Houston Holiday Celebration
- Watch our famous skyline come alive with music, lights and fireworks!
- Texas Bowl
- Annual college football bowl game at NRG Stadium
Contact Us
City Hall901 Bagby, Second Floor
Houston, TX 77002
