Every festivals we list on Amelia Island — 13 entries at present — each with its area, type and verification status. Listings marked unconfirmed have details we have not yet checked against a primary source.
Amelia Island's largest annual event, held in downtown Fernandina Beach on the first full weekend of May. Three days of shrimp, a juried fine arts and crafts show, a pirate parade, live music and street closures across the historic district.
Details unconfirmed
A internationally significant classic and collector car event held each March on the south end of Amelia Island, centred on the Ritz-Carlton and the adjoining golf course, with auctions, seminars and a concours judging weekend.
Details unconfirmed
A Victorian Christmas street festival held each December in downtown Fernandina Beach, with costumed characters, a market, carollers and street entertainment along Centre Street's historic storefronts.
Details unconfirmed
Fernandina Beach's New Year's Eve street party in the downtown historic district, built around a lit shrimp lowered at midnight — the town's answer to the ball drop, and a fitting one for a working shrimping port.
Details unconfirmed
A multi-day jazz festival on Amelia Island held annually in the autumn, with concerts across island venues, and one of the better reasons to visit in October when the water is still warm and the crowds have thinned.
Details unconfirmed
One of the largest pétanque tournaments in the United States, held each November in downtown Fernandina Beach with courts laid out in the historic district — a genuinely unexpected thing for a Florida barrier island to host, and free to watch.
Details unconfirmed
A chamber music festival on Amelia Island running annually in the spring, with concerts in island venues including churches and historic buildings — and an unusually serious classical programme for a barrier island of this size.
Details unconfirmed
A free family festival marking the North Atlantic right whale calving season, which happens in the waters off this stretch of Florida and Georgia coast each winter — one of the very few places on Earth where these whales give birth.
Details unconfirmed
A craft beer festival held annually in the autumn in downtown Fernandina Beach, pouring from regional and further-afield breweries in the historic district — a ticketed tasting event rather than a street party.
Details unconfirmed
A nature festival on Amelia Island held annually in May, built around guided field trips into the island's habitats — salt marsh, maritime forest, beach and greenway — rather than around a single venue or stage.
Details unconfirmed
A songwriters festival in Fernandina Beach built around performances in small downtown venues, where writers play their own material and talk about it — a format that suits the historic district's scale better than a large outdoor stage would.
Details unconfirmed
A book festival on Amelia Island held annually in the winter, bringing authors to the island for talks, panels and signings, with an author-in-schools programme — and it lands in the island's quietest and cheapest month.
Details unconfirmed
Fernandina Beach Market Place is a festival at N 7th Street. We have confirmed its address and website directly (2026-09-10); opening hours and prices are not confirmed, so we do not publish them here.