The Gozo Guide

Calendar of Maltese Village Feasts for 2018

When are the Maltese festi on this year? Here’s an overview of all village feasts by date, showing you which locality celebrates a festa and in honour of which saint.

You’ll find that in some localities, like Valletta and Rabat, multiple parishes each celebrate their own festa at different times of the year.

January

27th: Iklin – The Holy Family

27th: Valletta – St. Paul’s Shipwreck

28th: Mdina – Conversion of St Paul

February

10th: Munxar (Gozo) – St. Paul’s Shipwreck

March

11th: Kerċem (Gozo) – St. Gregory the Great

19th: Rabat – St. Joseph

April

15th: Floriana – St. Publius

May

1st: Birkirkara – St. Joseph the Worker

20th: Valletta – St. Augustine (Santu Wistin Parish)

27th: Marsa – Holy Trinity

27th: Munxar (Gozo) – St. Paul’s Shipwreck

June

3rd: Gwardamanġa (Tal-Pietà) – Our Lady of Fatima

3rd: Tarxien – The Annunciation

3rd: Għaxaq – St. Joseph

3rd: Għasri (Gozo) – Christ the Saviour in the Eucharist

10th: Żebbuġ – St. Philip of Agira

17th: Fontana (Gozo) – Sacred Heart of Jesus

17th: Mqabba – Our Lady of Lily

17th: Rabat – Christ the Saviour in the Eucharist

17th: Żejtun – St. Catherine

24th: Xewkija (Gozo) – St. John the Baptist

24th: Qormi – St. George

24th: Siġġiewi – St. Nicholas

24th: Burmarrad – Immaculate Heart of Mary

29th: Mdina – St. Peter and St. Paul

29th: Nadur (Gozo) – St. Peter and St. Paul

July

1st: Fleur-de-Lys – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

1st: Qrendi – Our Lady of Lourdes

1st: Sliema – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Sacro Cuor Parish

1st: Luqa – St. Andrew

1st: Rabat – St. Paul

1st: Hamrun – Immaculate Conception

8th: Kirkop – St. Joseph

8th: Gżira | Fgura – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

8th: Balzan – The Annunciation

8th: Kerċem (Gozo) – Our Lady of Relief

15th: Kalkara – St. Joseph

15th: Tarxien – Our Lady of Holy Doctrine

15th: Qormi – St. Sebastian

15th: Victoria (Gozo) – St. George Martyr

16th: Valletta – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

22nd: Żurrieq – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

22nd: Sannat (Gozo) – St. Margaret

22nd: Msida – St. Joseph

29th: Marsaskala – St. Anne

29th: St. Paul’s Bay – Our Lady of Sorrows

29th: Għarb (Gozo) – The Visitation of Our Lady

29th: Paola – Christ the King

29th: Marsaxlokk – Our Lady of Pompei

29th: Balluta (St. Julian’s) – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

29th: Santa Venera – St. Venera

29th: Żebbuġ – St. Joseph

August

5th: Valletta – St. Dominic

5th: Birżebbuġa – St. Peter in Chains

5th: San Ġwann – Our Lady of Lourdes

5th: Qala (Gozo) – St. Joseph

6th: Lija – Christ Our Saviour

10th: Birgu (Vittoriosa) – St. Lawrence

12th: San Lawrenz (Gozo) – St. Lawrence

12th: Hamrun – San Gaetan

15th: Mqabba | Qrendi | Mosta | Gudja | Attard | Għaxaq | Victoria (Gozo) | Birkirkara | Żebbuġ (Ħal Muxi Parish) – The Assumption of Our Lady

19th: Comino | Mġarr | Dingli | Żebbuġ (Gozo) – The Assumption of Our Lady

19th: Sliema (Stella Maris Parish) – Our Lady Star of the Sea

19th: Kirkop – St. Leonard

19th: Paola – Our Lady of Lourdes

19th: Birkirkara – St. Helen of Constantinople

26th: Għargħur – St. Bartholomew

26th: Manikata – St. Joseph

26th: Marsa – Maria Regina

26th: Safi – Conversion of St. Paul

26th: St. Julian’s – St. Julian

26th: Birgu (Vittoriosa) – St. Dominic

26th: Għajnsielem (Gozo) – Our Lady of Loreto

September

2nd: Żurrieq – St. Catherine

2nd: Sliema – St. Gregory the Great

2nd: Qawra – St. Francis of Assisi

2nd: Xlendi (Gozo) – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

8th: Naxxar | Mellieħa | Senglea | Xagħra (Gozo) – The Nativity of Our Lady

9th: Żabbar – Our Lady of Graces

16th: Żejtun (Bir id-Deheb) – Madonna tal-Ħniena

16th: Valletta (Santu Wistin Parish) – St. Augustine

October

6th: Valletta – Our Lady of the Girdle

7th: Gudja – Our lady of the Rosary

28th: Gudja – Our lady of the Girdle

November

18th: Ta’ Xbiex – St. John of the Cross

December

8th: Cospicua –  Immaculate Conception

9th: Santa Luċija (Gozo) – St. Lucy

13th: Mtarfa – St. Lucy

16th: Kerċem (Gozo) – St. Lucy