From September 19 through 26, Seattle and its surrounding communities will become one large festive stage. The city will welcome fall with concerts, festivals, film screenings, sporting events, art tours, and food-related gatherings. In a single weekend, you can see the Luminata lantern parade at Green Lake, hear Rachmaninoff at Benaroya Hall, visit Fremont Oktoberfest or Seattle Fiestas Patrias, explore fairs in Bellevue, Bothell, and Tacoma, and take in hot-air balloons, studio tours, and film festivals. Throughout the week, theater performances, architecture tours, concerts, Seattle Kraken and Seattle Mariners games, and other local sporting events will continue. This selection is based on the Events12 event calendar for Seattle.
Events in Seattle and the Surrounding Area: September 19–26, 2026
| Dates | Location | Description | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 19 | Tacoma | Bleachers concert at the outdoor Dune Peninsula venue in Point Defiance Park. | Event website, tickets |
| September 19 | Seattle, Westlake Park–Pioneer Square | Walk Don’t Run — an urban art route featuring works by 200 artists, live music, and performances. | Venue map, photos |
| September 19 | Seattle, Benaroya Hall | Season-opening symphony concert featuring works by Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev with pianist Yefim Bronfman. | Seattle Symphony website |
| September 19 | Seattle, Lumen Field | Monster Jam — a show featuring enormous trucks with giant wheels and spectacular stunts. | Event website, tickets |
| September 19 | Seattle, Green Lake | Free Luminata lantern parade with musicians, illuminated costumes, and a festive procession around the lake. | Parade website, route |
| September 19 | Seattle, Wallingford | Great Wallingford Bratwurst Festival — a neighborhood festival with food, beer, games, children’s activities, and live music. | Event website |
| September 19 | Seattle, Ballard | Seattle Nordic Film Festival with LGBTQ+-themed programming at the National Nordic Museum. | Festival website |
| September 19 | Seattle, Columbia City | Free evening market with food trucks, artisans, live music, and a beer garden. | Market website |
| September 19 | Seattle, Rainier Beach | Farm Fest — a celebration at an urban farm featuring workshops, tours, animals, performances, and a farmers market. | Event website |
| September 19 | Bellevue | BelRed Arts Night Market with cultural performances, local vendors, and food trucks. | Market website |
| September 19 | Newcastle, Lake Boren Park | Newcastle Days — a parade, car show, children’s activities, music, food, and a beer garden. | Festival website |
| September 19 | Issaquah, Fleming Arts Center | TEDxIssaquah — short talks about the people, places, and ideas changing the world. | TEDxIssaquah website |
| September 19 | Bothell, City Hall | Making Local Market — a fair featuring nearly 100 vendors selling gifts, clothing, art, plants, and food. | Fair website |
| September 19 | Kent, Morrill Meadows Park | Free refugee and immigrant festival with music, cultural performances, food, and family activities. | Festival website |
| September 19 | West Seattle | West Seattle Art Tour — a self-guided tour of 16 studios featuring approximately 50 artists. | Tour website, map |
| September 19–20 | Seattle, Seattle Center | Seattle Fiestas Patrias — a celebration of Latin American culture with mariachi, dancing, games, food, and crafts. | Festival website, parade |
| September 19–20 | Seattle, Lake Union | Boats Afloat Show — an exhibition of powerboats, sailboats, and yachts with music, food, and boat rides. | Show website, photos |
| September 19–20 | Seattle, Fremont | Fremont Oktoberfest — a festival with hundreds of beers and ciders, contests, dancing, and DJ music. | Festival website, map |
| September 19–20 | Edmonds | Edmonds Art Studio Tour — a self-guided route through the studios and galleries of 40 artists. | Tour website, map |
| September 19–20 | Snohomish | Seattle Spartan Pan American Championship Weekend — 1–13 mile obstacle-course races across rugged terrain. | Spartan website |
| September 19–20 | Langley, Whidbey Island | DjangoFest NorthWest — a gypsy-jazz festival with concerts and workshops. | Festival website, schedule |
| September 19–20 | Woodland | Realms Unknown — a family fantasy festival with Vikings, fairies, knights, pirates, and interactive activities. | Festival website, map |
| September 19–26 | Seattle, Belltown | All In — an interactive underground-casino-style show with games, mysteries, live music, and puzzles. | Tickets, review |
| September 19–26 | Seattle and surrounding areas | Seattle Architecture Foundation walking tours of the city’s historic and modern neighborhoods. | Foundation website |
| September 19 and 26 | Tacoma and Gig Harbor | ChuSeok Korean Festival — a Korean cultural celebration with drumming dances, workshops, music, and food. | Festival website |
| September 19–27 | Seattle, The 5th Avenue Theatre | A Chorus Line — a musical about dancers auditioning for a Broadway production. | Show website, tickets |
| September 19–27 | Seattle, Northwest Film Forum | Local Sightings Film Festival — a festival of new films from the Northwest, with workshops and discussions. | Festival website |
| September 19–27 | Puyallup, Washington State Fair Events Center | Washington State Fair — the state’s largest fair, with animals, rides, rodeo, food, and concerts. | Fair website, concerts |
| September 19–28 | Various locations | Sunflower season at farms in Duvall and Snohomish, with photo opportunities, wagon rides, and children’s activities. | — |
| September 19–October 2 | Various locations | Free concert series in Arlington, Lake Forest Park, at the Lake Union floating stage, in Mill Creek, Ravenna, and Seattle Center. | — |
| September 19–October 11 | Seattle, Union Arts Center | Hamlet — Shakespeare’s tragedy about a prince who must avenge his father’s murder. | Show website |
| September 19–October 18 | Issaquah, Village Theatre | Ragtime — a musical about the lives of three immigrant families in early-20th-century New York. | Show website |
| September 19–October 31 | Seattle, waterfront | Two-hour sailing excursions aboard the Bay Lady on Elliott Bay. | — |
| September 19–October 31 | Skykomish | Free miniature-train rides across a bridge and through a tunnel on Saturdays. | Railway website, Kitsap Live Steamers |
| September 19–November 21 | Seattle, Husky Stadium | Home games of the University of Washington Huskies football team. | Schedule, tickets |
| September 19, 2026–April 3, 2027 | Seattle, Climate Pledge Arena | Home games of the Seattle Kraken hockey team, including games on September 19, 20, 24, and 26. | Schedule, tickets |
| September 20 | Seattle, Lake Union | Dance party aboard The Hiyu ferry with live or DJ music, food, and bars. | The Hiyu website, photos |
| September 20 | Montlake | Free neighborhood Montlake Yard Sale with 75 private sellers. | Sale website, seller map |
| September 20 | Fall City | Fall City Apple Festival with apple pie, cider, food trucks, music, crafts, and children’s activities. | Festival website |
| September 20–27 | Seattle | Candlelight Concerts — string-quartet performances by candlelight featuring music from the 1990s, The Rock Orchestra, The Beatles, Hans Zimmer, ABBA, and Queen. | Concert website |
| September 22–27 | Seattle, T-Mobile Park | Seattle Mariners home series against the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Angels. | Schedule, tickets |
| September 23 | Seattle, Climate Pledge Arena | Seattle Storm women’s basketball home game against the Dallas Wings. | Team website, tickets |
| September 23–26 | Seattle, Lumen Field | Seattle Sounders home games against Real Salt Lake and Minnesota United. | Schedule, tickets |
| September 24–27 | Seattle, Unexpected Productions Improv | SketchFest Seattle — a sketch-comedy festival featuring local and visiting comedians. | Festival website, tickets |
| September 24–27 | Gig Harbor | Gig Harbor Film Festival with feature-length and short films, parties, and filmmaker talks. | Festival website |
| September 24–27 | Port Townsend | Port Townsend Film Festival with screenings, special guests, a dinner, a filmmakers’ parade, and award ceremonies. | Festival website |
| September 25 | Seattle, Pike Place Market | Free Night Shift evening featuring music, performances, crafts, food, and a beer garden. | Event website |
| September 25 | Seattle, Town Hall | Concert by Ganesh Rajagopalan and Marina Albero featuring Indian classical music. | Concert website |
| September 25 | Seattle, Stoup Brewing | HarvestFest — tasting of 30 beers paired with food. | Festival website, tickets |
| September 25 | Carnation, Remlinger Farms | Big Thief concert at Remlinger Farms. | Concert website, tickets |
| September 25–27 | Prosser | Great Prosser Balloon Rally — a hot-air-balloon festival with launches, a night glow, and a fall fair. | Festival website, schedule |
| September 25–November 1 | Seattle, Lumen Field | Seattle Reign women’s soccer home games, including the September 25 match against Boston Legacy. | Schedule, tickets |
| September 25–November 7 | Seattle, Georgetown | Georgetown Morgue — a seasonal haunted house recommended for visitors ages 12 and older. | Attraction website |
| September 26 | Seattle, Belltown | Hot Stove Society cooking classes: Vietnamese pho, pot stickers, and scallion pancakes. | Schedule and tickets |
| September 26 | Seattle, International District | Free Chinatown–International District Night Market with street food, crafts, and cultural performances. | Market website |
| September 26 | Seattle, Georgetown | Sancafest — an outdoor circus celebration with acrobatic performances and introductory circus-arts classes. | Event website |
| September 26 | Seattle, Loyal Heights | Free Sustainable Ballard Festival with music, food trucks, environmental exhibits, and workshops. | Festival website |
| September 26 | Lynnwood | Lynnwood Oktoberfest with music, food, drinks, and a festive atmosphere. | Festival website |
| September 26 | Bothell, City Hall | Sustainamania — an environmental fair with repair services, workshops, music, food trucks, and a children’s area. | Fair website |
| September 26 | Tacoma, LeMay America’s Car Museum | Cider Swig — a tasting of 130 ciders with food, crafts, music, and games. | Festival website, tickets |
| September 26 | Tacoma, Tacoma Art Museum | Wonderland — an evening art party with interactive installations, games, performances, snacks, and themed bars. | Event website |
| September 26–27 | Seattle, Seattle Center | The Italian Festival — a celebration of Italian food, wine, music, and dancing, with children’s activities and grape stomping. | Festival website, grape stomp |
| September 26–27 | Seattle, Seattle Center | Northwest Tea Festival — tea tastings, expert presentations, and a marketplace of tea accessories. | Festival website, presentations, tickets |
| September 26–27 | Snohomish | Snohomish Studio Tour — a tour of 16 art studios featuring works by 27 artists. | Tour website, map |
| September 26–27 | Enumclaw | BBQ, Brews, & Brats — a festival of barbecue, beer, live music, vendors, and a free children’s area. | Festival website, tickets |
| September 26–27 | Bellingham | Bellingham SeaFeast — a seafood festival with music, a market, drinks, a free fun run, and boat rides. | Festival website |
| September 26–November 1 | Federal Way, Wild Waves | Halloween at Wild Waves: daytime Booville activities for children and the evening Fright Fest with monsters and haunted houses. | Event website |
| September 27 | Woodinville | Run or Wine — a 5K/10K run or walk with tastings of wine, beer, or cider. | Race website |
| September 27 | Woodinville, Chateau Ste. Michelle | Hermanos Gutiérrez concert as part of the winery’s summer concert series. | Concert schedule, tickets |
| September 29 | Seattle, Magnuson Park | Free resource fair for older adults featuring approximately 100 organizations and educational seminars. | Fair website |
| September 30 | Seattle, Washington Hall | Omnivorous — a benefit tasting of food and drinks from 20 local chefs, with music and stories. | Event website |
