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Events on the Isle of Wight

Pack your island holiday with fun things to do

The Isle of Wight is one of the UK's most exciting destinations for festivals and events! There's a wide variety of year-round activities and events, including one of the UK's biggest and best known music festivals, the world's oldest sailing regatta, and a food festival dedicated to one of our most famous exports, garlic!

Event Calendar

Location
Category
Oct 4-31
a pile of pumpkins
Entertainment

Westover Farm Pumpkin Patch

Embark on an autumn adventure at Westover Farm this October!

Calbourne 9:30am - 4:30pm
Oct-Nov 18-2
monkey with pumpkins
Entertainment

Half Term Halloween Fun at Monkey Haven

Get ready for a spook-tacular time at Monkey Haven this half-term! A frightfully fun Halloween celebration filled with creepy creatures, creative crafts, spooky trails, and delicious themed treats. 

Newport - All day
Oct-Nov 18-2
spooky scene
Entertainment

Halloween Half-Term at Carisbrooke Castle

Gather your little monsters for a ghoulishly good day out at Carisbrooke Castle this half-term!

Newport - All day
Oct-Nov 18-2
halloween trail sheet
Entertainment

Half Term Halloween Fun at The Garlic Farm

Where better to hang out when vampires, ghosts and ghouls are around than The Garlic Farm? There's all the garlicky protection you need... and plenty of fun activities during the half term holiday!

Newchurch 9am - 5pm
Oct-Nov 18-2
Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary
Entertainment

Halloween Fun at the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary

Enjoy fun pumpkin-themed activities at the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary this Halloween, with over 100 donkeys, ponies, and a mule to meet!

Wroxall 10am - 4:30pm
Oct 19-31
children in witch hat fancy dress next to train carriage
Entertainment

Wizard Week at IW Steam Railway

It’s wickedly, wonderful fun this half term as witches, wizards and other ghouls take over Havenstreet!

Havenstreet - All day
Oct 20-31
wight karting
Entertainment

Junior Track Days

Junior drivers aged 8-15 get the chance to take to the track without parents at Wight Karting this October!

Ryde 9am - 11:30am
Oct 24-30
spooky skull shaped lanterns
Entertainment

Fiesta of the Dead at Blackgang Chine

Experience excitement this October half term at Fiesta of the Dead – the Isle of Wight’s most extensive family Halloween event inspired by Día de los Muertos!

Ventnor - All day
Oct-Nov 28-1
criisp-day-at-compton-bay
Entertainment

National Trust Fossil Walks

This October half-term join a guided search for Cretaceous fossils on the shore, including dinosaur bones, flint sea urchins, fossil wood, fossil oysters and so much more! 

Compton Bay All Day

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