På gång i Brighton, United Kingdom under året

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i United Kingdom, skollov i 6 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Starling murmurations (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — February half-term i United Kingdom, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: Starling murmurations (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Helg

  Easter bank holidays

  3–6 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtStängningar

  Good Friday is a bank holiday across the UK and Easter Monday everywhere but Scotland. The long weekend opens the domestic touring season: popular towns, coasts and parks get busy, rooms cost more, and rail engineering works often cut or replace train services. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Easter bank holidays, Brighton Marathon

• Festival

  Brighton Marathon

  5–20 apr · vanligtvisSportevenemangTrångtStängningar

  The seafront and much of the east of the city close for a Sunday in April, and the hotels go at festival rates for the weekend around it. Källa ↗

• Natur

  Nesting gulls

  15 apr – 1 aug · vanligtvisFågelsäsongRisk

  Herring gulls nest on the chimney stacks from spring and defend the chicks in July by dive-bombing anyone under them. Eating chips on the seafront in high summer is a contact sport. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Easter bank holidays (3–6 apr)

Mest folk — Brighton Festival and Fringe, The Great Escape

• Festival

  Brighton Festival and Fringe

  1–31 majKulturfestivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  England's largest arts festival outside Edinburgh takes the whole of May, with a guest director each year and an open-houses trail of artists' front rooms alongside it. Källa ↗

• Festival

  The Great Escape

  12–20 maj · vanligtvisMusikfestivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  Three days of new bands across thirty small venues in the middle of May, running inside the Brighton Festival month; the town is full twice over and rooms go early. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Nesting gulls (15 apr – 1 aug (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Beach season, London to Brighton bike ride

• Säsong

  Beach season

  1 jun – 15 sep · vanligtvisHavet varmt nogTrångt

  Day trippers from London fill the pebbles on any warm weekend and the trains down are rationed by capacity rather than timetable. The sea is swimmable but never warm.

• Festival

  London to Brighton bike ride

  10–25 jun · vanligtvisSportevenemangTrångtStängningar

  Tens of thousands of riders arrive on Madeira Drive across one Sunday in June. The seafront road closes and every train back to London is standing room with a bike in it. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  London day-trippers

  20 jun – 5 sep · vanligtvisDagsturisternas tryckTrångt

  An hour from Victoria and the beach fills on any warm weekend; the last trains back go standing and the Lanes are shoulder to shoulder from noon. Weekday mornings are another city. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Nesting gulls (15 apr – 1 aug (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Beach season, London day-trippers

• Festival

  Brighton Pride

  30 jul – 10 aug · vanligtvisTrångtBoka tidigt

  The first weekend of August and the busiest two days of the city's year: a parade to Preston Park, a ticketed festival there, and rooms at four times the normal rate if any are left. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Nesting gulls (15 apr – 1 aug (vanligtvis)), Beach season (1 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis)), London day-trippers (20 jun – 5 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Beach season, London day-trippers

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Nesting gulls (15 apr – 1 aug (vanligtvis)), Beach season (1 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis)), London day-trippers (20 jun – 5 sep (vanligtvis)), Brighton Pride (30 jul – 10 aug (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Beach season, London day-trippers

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Beach season (1 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis)), London day-trippers (20 jun – 5 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — October half-term i United Kingdom, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Mycket folk — Veteran Car Run, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Natur

  Starling murmurations

  1 nov – 28 feb · vanligtvisFågelsäsong

  Tens of thousands of starlings turn over the Palace Pier at dusk through the winter before dropping into the ironwork to roost. Twenty minutes before sunset, from the beach on either side.

• Festival

  Veteran Car Run

  1–8 nov · vanligtvisMotorsportshelgTrångt

  Pre-1905 cars leave Hyde Park at sunrise on the first Sunday of November and trickle onto Madeira Drive all morning, which is exactly as slow and as good as it sounds. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Christmas and Boxing Day, Christmas holidays i United Kingdom

• Festival

  Burning the Clocks

  21 decLjus & eld

  A solstice lantern parade down to the beach on 21 December, where the paper lanterns are burned and there are fireworks over the water. Made by the city, not booked into it; the charity behind it skipped 2025 but is back on for 2026. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Christmas and Boxing Day

  24–28 decJul & nyårStängningar

  Christmas Day and Boxing Day are bank holidays. Public transport is minimal or absent on 25 December and thin on the 26th, and most shops, attractions and many pubs and restaurants close on Christmas Day, so plan travel and meals ahead. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Starling murmurations (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis))