If you are pricing flights for Fallas 2027 right now, look at a calendar before you look at fares. Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 March 2027 are the only days with the monuments standing, which means no weekend in March has them. Fallas is Valencia’s March festival, running for 19 days with a free daytime firecracker show at 14:00 and street monuments up for 4 days.
When should I go to Fallas 2027? Go between Tuesday 16 and Friday 19 March 2027. Those four days are the only ones with the monuments standing in Valencia’s streets. Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 bring the Flower Offering, Thursday night is the Nit del Foc fireworks and Friday 19, a public holiday, ends with every falla burned.
Which nights to book for Fallas 2027
Book Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 March if you can, and Wednesday 17 to Friday 19 if you only have two nights. The festival starts on 1 March, but the first two weeks are a single daily mascletà in Plaza del Ayuntamiento with the city working normally around it.
The two-night version keeps the three set pieces: the Flower Offering, the Nit del Foc and the cremà. What it drops is Tuesday, the first full day with the monuments finished, and the plantà, when the last pieces are craned into place.
| Day in March 2027 | Monuments up? | What’s on | Orchestras in the street tents? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 12, Monday to Friday | no | daily mascletà at 14:00 | no |
| Saturday 13 | no | mascletà, pre-festival evening | yes |
| Sunday 14 | no | mascletà | no |
| Monday 15 | children’s fallas only | children’s plantà, L’Albà fireworks at midnight | yes |
| Tuesday 16 | yes | plantà, mascletà, fireworks over the Turia | yes |
| Wednesday 17 | yes | Flower Offering, mascletà, fireworks | yes |
| Thursday 18 | yes | Flower Offering, mascletà, Nit del Foc | yes |
| Friday 19, holiday | yes, until night | last mascletà, Fire Parade, cremà | no |
| Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 | no, all burned | nothing left of Fallas | no |
What happens on each of the four big days
Tuesday 16 March is the day to walk the monuments: they are freshly finished and the Flower Offering has not yet closed off half of the old town. In 2026, according to Visit València, the big fallas had to be in place by 8:00 that morning, and the Junta Central Fallera announced the main prizes at 9:00 the following day. Fireworks fire from the Monteolivete bridge in the Turia Gardens at midnight. The nine biggest monuments, the Sección Especial ones, fit into a walking route through the best Fallas monuments of about 107 minutes.
Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 belong to the Flower Offering. Falleros in traditional dress walk two parallel routes, Calle de la Paz and Calle San Vicente, to Plaza de la Virgen. Last year the procession set off at 15:30 both days and the San Vicente column ran past midnight. Thursday night is the Nit del Foc, the longest fireworks display of the week.
Friday 19 stacks everything: the final mascletà at 14:00, the Fire Parade at 19:00 and then the cremà. The 2026 order was children’s fallas at 20:00, every big falla at 22:00, the winning top-category falla at 22:30 and the city’s own monument in Plaza del Ayuntamiento at 23:00.
The weekend of 13 and 14 March, and what you miss
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 March 2027 give you two mascletàs and a lively pre-festival atmosphere in the neighbourhoods, but not a single big monument. If you can only travel at a weekend, it is a reasonable trip for the gunpowder and a disappointing one for the art.
The weekend does offer the Ninot Exhibition, where one figure from each falla is displayed and the public votes on which one is spared from the fire. In 2026 it closed on 14 and 15 March, with the pardoned ninots announced at 17:30. Those survivors end up in the Museu Faller, one of two Fallas museums in Valencia that stay open the rest of the year.
When to book accommodation, and why Holy Week matters in 2027
Book as soon as your dates are fixed, and treat the nights of 16 to 19 March as the expensive core. Two calendar quirks push demand up in 2027: Friday 19 March is a public holiday across the Valencian Community, so the 19 to 21 stretch becomes a long weekend for Spanish visitors, and Good Friday falls a week later, on 26 March.
Where you sleep matters more than usual. In 2026 the city centre was closed to traffic from 15:00 on 16 March until 4:00 on 20 March, inside the ring of the Grandes Vías and the old riverbed, so taxis and cars could not reach doors there. The 2027 bylaw that sets those hours is approved in February.
Plan your arrival time too. The Fallas bylaw bars trolley suitcases, pushchairs and bulky items from the mascletà area between 12:30 and 15:00, so arriving with luggage in the early afternoon means a detour. Metro lines 3 and 5 run from the airport to the city centre and stop at Xàtiva and Colón; the single ticket covering zones A and B costs 4.80 euros.
Noise, crowds and sleep, what a first-timer should expect
Expect noise day and night from 13 to 19 March, and pick your street with that in mind. Valencia City Council allows orchestras and street parties in the neighbourhood tents on five nights in 2027, the 13th and the 15th to the 18th, and tents start going up on 11 March. Inside them the bylaw sets an 80 dBA limit, measured within five metres of the tent.
Crowds concentrate around three places at predictable times: Plaza del Ayuntamiento before 14:00, the Offering routes in the afternoon of the 17th and 18th, and the Turia Gardens around midnight. Three things make more difference than any app:
- Earplugs, above all for children at the mascletà, which is built for sound rather than light.
- A meeting point agreed in advance, because groups split easily around Plaza del Ayuntamiento before 14:00.
- Luggage left at the hotel, since trolley cases cannot pass the mascletà control between 12:30 and 15:00.
Where each event happens
Plaza del Ayuntamiento hosts the mascletà, with Xàtiva metro station 338 metres away and Colón 530 metres away.
Plaza de la Virgen, next to the Basilica, is where the Offering ends, 11 minutes’ walk from Colón. The fireworks and the Nit del Foc light up the Turia Gardens between the Reino and Monteolivete bridges, behind the Palau de les Arts and beside the City of Arts and Sciences; tram line 10 stops at Ciutat Arts i Ciències - Justícia, 608 metres from the bridge.
Getting home after midnight was easier than it sounds last year. EMT València kept 24 bus lines running round the clock from 15 March until the early hours of the 20th, plus line 92 from the 16th, with 3 million seats on offer. Which stations shut at mascletà time, and how to get in from the airport that week, is in our guide to getting around Valencia during Fallas.
Fallas 2027 questions answered
What are the dates of Fallas 2027?
Fallas 2027 runs from Monday 1 to Friday 19 March, with a mascletà every day at 14:00 in Plaza del Ayuntamiento. The big monuments stand only from Tuesday 16 March until they are burned on the night of Friday 19, which is a public holiday in the Valencian Community.
Which weekend should I go to Fallas 2027?
Neither weekend is ideal. Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 March come before the monuments go up, and by Saturday 20 they have been burned. If you can only travel at a weekend, arrive on Friday 19 for the cremà and the festival’s last mascletà.
Do I need tickets for Fallas?
No. The mascletà, the Flower Offering, the fireworks over the Turia Gardens and the cremà are all free street events. You pay only to step inside the fenced area of some top-category monuments; the 2026 pass went on sale in early February, and the 2027 one is expected then.
When will the Fallas 2027 programme be published?
Early December 2026, going by the previous edition. The pyrotechnic firms for each mascletà follow in mid-January and the city’s Fallas bylaw, with road closures and banned items, in February. Until then, the 2026 timetable is the best guide to hours.
Fallas 2027 is a midweek festival: book Tuesday to Friday, and the weekends look after themselves.