Events

The Whangamata Summer Festival has been hosting this event for over eleven years. It is the largest market in the region and is a myriad of sights, sounds and smells with food, drink, craft, instruments, jewellery, fun rides for the children, and much, much more.

The Craft Market day is hugely popular and is a fundraiser for the week long festival

Six nights of free entertainment, plus a daytime kids programme from 10am each day

Annual Craft Market | 28 December 9am - 9pm

FREE music nightly.....
Shed 23 - local band                           Dec 29th   8pm - 11pm
Kevin Greaves and the Midnite Special  Dec 30th  8pm-11pm
NYE Mile High + Special Guests            Dec 31st   8pm-1.15am
Garden Opera in the Park NYDay          Jan 1st     7.30pm - 10pm

Coro Gold is back for 2011-12 with a new plan that will see the festival expand to 2 days… Dec 30th and New Year’s Eve

In true Coro Gold style the line-up for each day will be epic. Throw in bigger bars, more food, toilets and entertainment and its set to be the best Coro Gold yet!

There's also a new 3 night camping option so you can enjoy the sun, sand and beaches while lapping up 2 massive festival days and nights.

Held in the beautiful surroundings of Coromandel's Ohuka Farm, Coromandel Gold is 3 kilometres from Whitianga town centre and a stone's throw from Buffalo Beach. Because the night will be so huge, camping will be available on site and buses will be running from Whitianga and local beaches.

This is a New Years Eve party you don't want to miss.

A FREE family 10-day festival celebrating global unity, inner peace, creativity & healing the planet! Free exhibition, free daily talks and workshops on peace-initiatives, 10am-5pm.

Happy new year, New Zealand! It's holiday time. Come on down to Whangamata School for a great day out with the family. Free entry. Free entertainment. Great shopping, coffee and food. Open for 5 days.

Popular famous big fair that comes to town only once a year - thirty Gypsy families in interesting house trucks and buses, come check out these fabulous homes.

Wooden crafts, tarot reading, palm reader, open home, crystals, herbal products, LuckyStar coffee, funky clothes, silver jewellery, ethnic clothes, food, candyfloss, glass blowing, bouncy castle, hip accessories, tattooing and piercing, hand painted craft, pony rides, fork art, leather, minibikes and lots, lots more.

Live entertainment all day from our resident musician, Frank.

Come along for a great weekend out.

Experience the iconic Interislander Summer Festival Thames Races set in the gateway to the Coromandel Peninsula.

Kids are absolutely spoilt for choice with a great range of activities, there will also be plenty of giveaways for the adults including the famous Thames Flounder Packs.

Come and enjoy the delicious local food and wine of the Coromandel and live music. A day not to miss!

Entry Price: Adults $10, Kid’s under 18 Free

A huge celebration of food, wine, arts and crafts

The Tairua Wine and Food festival is a ritual amongst holidaymakers in the Tairua and Pauanui area. Over 10,000 people flock to the festival each year.

A huge array of food stalls, wine, beer, entertainment and of course stacks of arts and crafts stalls.

The event is the major fundraiser of the year for picturesque Tairua School - which sits on the Tairua Harbour and has a roll of just under 100 students - and is run completely by parents and kind local volunteers.

There are no dogs allowed at the festival since it is held on the school grounds and it is also a smokefree area

Lax back and laugh in the park this summer with HUGE international stars and Kiwi favourites. The Outdoor Comedy Store is NZ's most unique comedy show, touring this summer to stunning outdoor venues in some of our favourite holiday hotspots.

Featuring a star-studded line-up with Irish Comic Legend ED BYRNE, American comedy cowboy WILSON DIXON, the brilliant Kiwi comic BEN HURLEY, and our supreme host SIMON MCKINNEY.

Lax back on a summer's evening with your friends and family, a refreshment or two, and the laughs rolling in.

Do not miss out on this summer's biggest night of hilarity!

Stunning Setting, Swinging Sounds

You can't get a better setting than this. Set on a natural ampitheatre near Pauanui. Three hours of fun filled music. All proceeds go to the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Trust.

17 races of Motorcycling Mayhem!

The Battle of the streets is an institution in Paeroa. Check out New Zealand's top riders as they ter up the street circuit set trough central Paeroa.

Huge marlin and tuna, big prizes and loads of partying! New Zealand’s best and biggest gamefishing competitions all take place on the Coromandel including:

  Whangamata Nauti Girls and Classic

  Shimano Stand Up, Tairua

  Whitianga One Base and Gamefishing Classic