Finding family events
Beyond vendors, Family-Friendly Events has a community calendar of upcoming family-friendly events — festivals, fairs, performances, story times, fundraisers, and more. No account is required to browse it.
Browse the calendar
The events calendar lists upcoming events, soonest first. Each entry shows the date and time, where it is, the type of event, and whether admission is free or paid.
Find what's near you
Type a ZIP code (or a town, or "city, ST") into ZIP or city, pick a distance, and the calendar shows only events within that radius — including ones over a state line, which matters if you live near one. If your browser offers, Use my location does the same thing without typing. We round your location to about a mile, use it for that search, and don’t save it to your account.
Online events have no location, so they aren't in a radius result — use Online only for those.
Narrow it down
Filters help you find events that fit:
- This weekend / Today / Next 7 days — one tap, or set any date range you like.
- ZIP or city + distance — everything within 5 to 100 miles.
- State — a whole state at a time.
- Who it's for — babies and toddlers through to adults. Events marked for all ages show up whichever audience you pick.
- Free to attend — only events the organizer has told us are free.
- Type — filter by the kind of event.
- Online only — show virtual events you can join from anywhere.
The event page
Open an event to see the full details: the description, the exact date and time — shown on the event's own clock, with the timezone named, so it is the time you would need to be there — admission cost and suggested ages, and, for in-person events, the venue with a map and directions. Virtual events show the join link instead, and their times follow your own timezone.
Save it and add it to your calendar
Signed in, tap the heart on any event to save it to your list so you can find it again. Every event also has Google Calendar and download (.ics) links, so you can drop it straight into your own calendar and get a reminder.
Want the whole calendar in your own app? Use Subscribe in your calendar app on the calendar or on a state's page — it's a feed that stays up to date in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Organizers with a public profile have one for just their events, too.
Events we list from another organization's calendar usually come through a subscription as the essentials — what, when and where, with a link — because the description is that organization's writing. Open the event, or download it on its own, to get everything its page shows.
Where the events come from
Organizers submit their own events, our team adds some, and we also subscribe to public community calendars — a tourism office, a library system, a parks department. Anything from a subscribed calendar is filtered down to the events that make sense for families, reviewed before it appears, and shown with a "From …" line that links back to the original listing, so you can always confirm details with the organizer. Every calendar we list from has a page of its own showing what we currently carry from it. Not every event is aimed at children: family-friendly describes the character of an event rather than who is in the room, so a library's adults-only craft night belongs here while the same evening built around drinking does not. Almost everything is built for children or happy to have them along — check the who it's for tags on a listing, and see what family-friendly means for the longer answer. If you run a calendar for your community and would like it included — or you'd like our events on your own site — see how syndication works; there's no cost for community calendars. If you already publish one, there's also a short page of tips for calendar owners, with a checker you can run on your own feed in your browser.
Know an event we're missing? See Submitting a family event.