Cape May NJ Events Calendar 2026

Three-day festival of craft beer, blues music, and country at Wildwood Convention Center.

200,000 tulips in bloom with garden tours, wine tastings, and trolley tours.

Fixed-price dining at Cape May's finest restaurants for one special week.

Intimate jazz festival featuring Grammy-winning artists in Cape May venues.

48th annual world-class birding festival at one of North America's premier migration sites.

Bucket-list triathlon starting with a ferry swim to Cape May. Swim 1mi, bike 24mi, run 10K.

Cape May's Pride march from Cove Beach to the Promenade, plus an afternoon party.

Cape May's early-season offshore tuna tournament out of South Jersey Marina.

Heidi Schreck's acclaimed play opens Cape May Stage's 2026 season.

Emily Mann's two-woman memoir play opens East Lynne's season (runs into July).

Cape May MAC's seaside classical and chamber music festival runs concerts through late June.

Living-history barnyard animals, antique farm equipment, and farming demos at the open-air museum.

A Father's Day fried-fish feast with live music at the vineyard.

An outdoor juried crafts and collectibles show on the grounds of the Victorian Physick Estate.

Living-history weekend at Historic Cold Spring Village with hands-on trades and demonstrations from the 1789-1840 age of homespun.

Joan Osborne headlines the City of Cape May's 2026 Summer Concert Series at Cape May Convention Hall on the beachfront.

Children ages 3-10 meet Captain Kidd on the Cape May beach, receive a pirate sword and dig for buried treasure at his special treasure site.

Cape May crowns its 93rd Queen Maysea at Convention Hall, a summer pageant tradition dating to the 1930s.

Free Wednesday-night concerts on the lawn at the Cape May-Lewes Ferry terminal, hosted by Lower Township through August 26, 2026.

Cape May's 93rd Baby Parade for children 12 and under, with day-of registration at Congress Street and Beach Avenue and trophies at Convention Hall.

60+ years of marlin fishing tradition—one of the oldest release tournaments in the region.

Soul legends The Spinners play Cape May Convention Hall as part of the city's 2026 Summer Concert Series.

Annual volunteer beach cleanup organized by the Cape May Whale Watch & Research Center, meeting at David Douglass Sr. Memorial Park.

Free National Night Out on the beach at Cape May Convention Hall with beach games, bounce houses, food, live music and a drone show.

Singer-songwriter A.J. Croce performs at Cape May Convention Hall on the oceanfront Promenade.

The Legendary Wailers bring reggae to Cape May Convention Hall as part of the 2026 Summer Concert Series.

Lower Township's America 250 celebration at the ferry terminal with The Amish Outlaws, food trucks, children's rides and an 8:30 PM drone show.

Women's billfish tournament out of the Cape May Marlin & Tuna Club. Teams pick one of three fishing days, with awards at the clubhouse August 15.

Blue Oyster Cult closes out Cape May's 2026 Summer Concert Series at oceanfront Convention Hall.

Premier offshore tournament with million-dollar payouts for marlin and tuna.

Autumn beer festival on the Physick Estate lawn in Cape May.

Free Oktoberfest in the Cape May historic district.

Corn-themed harvest weekend at Historic Cold Spring Village.

The autumn edition of the Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May.

Cape May's costume parade, Sunday Oct 25 at 3 PM. No rain date.

Crafts and collectibles show at the Physick Estate on Halloween.

Cape May's signature Victorian celebration with house tours, dinners, and themed events.

Month-long spooky celebration with ghost walks and Scarecrow Alley.

Four days of peak-migration birding field trips and talks in Cape May.

Family-friendly haunted walk-through at Historic Cold Spring Village.

Dickens village transformation kicks off Cape May holiday season.

Four nights of prix-fixe menus across Cape May, November 5–8.

Congress Hall’s holiday village on the lawn, Thanksgiving weekend through New Year’s Eve.

MAC’s holiday craft and antiques show at Convention Hall, the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Cape May MAC’s candlelight tour of decorated historic homes — December 5, 12 and 19.

Both Cape May tree lightings — Rotary Park and Congress Hall — on one December Friday evening.

Classical Cape May’s free Boxing Day carol sing at the Church of the Advent, 4 PM.

The City’s two-day holiday craft show at Convention Hall.

A mid-December Friday evening of late shopping and hospitality on the Mall.