What’s happening.

Baler

Baler's surf-skate-and-sound festival — surf heats by day, DJ sets (with Apotheka) and beach art by night.

Boracay

The island's flagship long weekend — successor to LaBoracay — beach music, sunset sessions and DJ parties on White Beach.

Camiguin

Island-wide water festival for St.

Boracay

Tropical EDM beach festival with water cannons and big DJ lineups on White Beach Station 1.

Parañaque

Manila's premier indoor EDM festival — 60+ artists across air-conditioned stages, headliners like Porter Robinson.

Davao Global Township, Matina

A two-day open-air music festival pitched as a headline act of Kadayawan weekend — live bands on day one, DJs on day two, with food and lifestyle stalls around the stage.

Iloilo

Heritage-street market on Calle Real — 70+ food stalls, crafts and live music for the city's Charter Day.

Surigao

Surigao City Boulevard's seasonal night market — local delicacies, street food and crafts.

Magsaysay Park, downtown

The durian stalls along Magsaysay Park downtown are Davao's open-air fruit hall, where vendors crack open the spiky king of fruits plus mangosteen, lanzones and rambutan at their lowest in-season prices.

Catanduanes

Sanctioned surf contest over the famous right-hand 'Majestics' barrel at Puraran Beach.

Siargao

Cloud 9's pro surf contest and the season's best waves — plus beach parties nightly.

Sabang Beach

Sabang is the Philippines' premier learn-to-surf beach — a long sandy beachbreak with mellow rights and lefts, minimal rocks, and an easy walkout, so first-timers stand up fast.

Cebu

The region's flagship contemporary art fair — Visayan and Mindanao artists, talks and workshops.

Makati

The country's flagship contemporary art fair — leading galleries, talks and projects.

Villa Beach, Arevalo

Asia's oldest traditional sailcraft race, run every February since 1973.

Davao

A short hop across the strait — white-sand resorts, Hagimit Falls, and the giant Monfort bat cave.

Buruun, Iligan

A 240-foot curtain of cold water tumbling into a deep blue-green basin at the bottom of a long winding staircase — roughly 500 steps down via the Buru-un route.

Brgy. Talisay, Hinatuan

A spring-fed river so impossibly clear and deep-sapphire that locals swear it's enchanted.

Santa Fe, Bantayan Island

Bantayan Island becomes one of the Visayas' most peaceful Holy Week destinations — beaches empty at dusk for processions, the town fills with Cebuano families, and Ogtong Cave at Santa Fe has a saltwater pool fed by an underground spring.

Bacuit Bay

The classic Bacuit Bay run — Big Lagoon, Secret Lagoon, Shimizu Island and Seven Commando Beach off Miniloc, all towering limestone over jade water.

Coron Island

Kayangan Lake (the famously clear one, reached by a steep limestone stair) and Twin Lagoon, where you duck under a rock wall and feel the warm-then-cold thermocline, are the two unmissable stops.

Sabtang Island

On Sabtang you can stay in (or visit) the centuries-old limestone-and-cogon Ivatan stone houses of villages like Chavayan and Savidug, where families have turned ancestral homes into simple homestays.

General Luna, Siargao

Siargao's eastern coast has green and hawksbill sea turtle nesting sites that local volunteer groups patrol each season.

Olango Island

The Philippines' first Ramsar wetland — a 920-hectare tidal flat where up to 40,000 migratory shorebirds (Chinese egret, dowitchers, plovers) stop over on the East Asian flyway.

San Antonio (Balay Pahauli)

Siquijor isn't just beaches and waterfalls — it's the 'healing island,' and you can sit with real mananambal (folk healers) for a bolo-bolo cleansing (a stone in a glass of water, blown through a bamboo straw to draw out bad energy) or a tuob herbal fumigation at Balay Pahauli in Cantabon.

Mambajao

Volcano-fed pools at the foot of Mt.

Tagumpay, Coron (Busuanga)

One of the very few saltwater hot springs on earth — a geothermal 38–40°C pool ringed by mangroves on Busuanga's coast, about 30 minutes by tricycle from Coron town.