Guide to the Best Fall Festivals in Toronto and the GTA

Toronto is renowned for its plethora of summer festivals, but the party doesn’t need to stop there! Autumn is a gorgeous time of year here and on weekends, families across the province take a break from school and work to explore festivals, both indoors and outdoors. These include neighbourhood fairs, craft markets, and festivals celebrating food, culture, nature and much more. Get inspired by our Guide to the Best Fall Festivals in Toronto and the GTA…

Stratford Festival
Date: Until November 2, 2025
The Stratford Festival returns with Shakespearean classics, musicals, comedies, dramas and family favourites, plus a kids ticket deal.

Fall Festivals — September

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Date: September 4-15, 2025
TIFF, one of the world’s leading film festivals returns to public screenings, hosting a street festival and events hosting the biggest names in movies.

Asialicious Carnival
Date: September 5-7, 2025
Asialicious Carnival is a three-day weekend food festival held at Woodside Square in Scarborough North, celebrating our community’s diverse Asian cultures through food and the performing arts.

Taste of the Kingsway
Date: September 5-7, 2025
The Taste of the Kingsway closes down a stretch of Bloor West with three days of entertainment, international cuisine and activities for the whole family to enjoy.

Smoke-a-Palooza Poutine Festival
Date: September 6, 2025
The Smoke-A-Palooza Poutine Festival celebrates our most patriotic dish as a free full-day event with free poutine, shows and an eating competition.

FEATURED: Cabbagetown Festival
Date: September 6-7, 2025
One of the city’s longest-running and most beloved free festivals, celebrate in the streets of one of Toronto’s family-friendly neighbourhoods at the 46th Annual Cabbagetown Festival!

Riverdale Farm Fall Festival
Date: September 6-7, 2025
Riverdale Farm hosts a free Fall Festival, including events based on all the farm activities such as animals, food and crafts.

Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival
Date: September 6, 2025
The free Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival returns with educational activities for kids, including arts & crafts, games and entertainment.

Brooks Farms: Fall Fun Festival
Date: September 6 — October 26, 2025
Brooks Farms’ Fall Fun Festival returns with family attractions including farm animals, wagon rides, corn maze, zip line, swings and slides, playground structures such as pirate ships and sandbox, Junior Farmers Village, and much more.

Kerr Village BIA: Kerrfest Kids
Date: September 7, 2025
Kerrfest Kids is a one-day celebration in Oakville with appearances from cartoon characters, live music and dance performances, kids activities, food and an outdoor market.

Toronto Ukrainian Festival
Date: September 13-14, 2025
Discover a glorious culture and share the spirit at Toronto Ukrainian Festival, North America’s largest Ukrainian festival.

Brampton Latin Festival
Date: September 13, 2025
Experience an unforgettable end-of-summer celebration of Latin culture through its cuisine music and dance at the annual Brampton Latin Festival in Brampton.

Roncesvalles Polish Festival
Date: September 13-14, 2025
Roncesvalles Polish Festival is a celebration of Polish food and community in Roncevalles Village, one of Toronto’s most vibrant communities.

Canadian Pet Expo
Date: September 13-14, 2025
The Canadian Pet Expo is a family-friendly event, returning to the International Centre in Mississauga. Your pets are invited to join in too!

Montgomery’s Inn: Fall Festival
Date: September 17, 2025
Montgomery’s Inn hosts a Fall Festival, with its regular weekly Farmers’ Market filled with fresh and local goods, local artisan vendors through Local MRKT, plus a corn roast and live music.

Ontario Culture Days
Date: September 19 — October 12, 2025
Celebrate the diversity and arts of our great province with Ontario Culture Days’ events for all ages across the GTA and beyond.

Friday Harbour: Harbourfest
Date: September 19-21, 2025
Celebrate Harbourfest at Friday Harbour on the shores of Lake Simcoe, surrounded by the beautiful colours of Fall with the tastes and sounds of Germany.

Pape Village BIA: Pape Village Block Party
Date: September 20-21, 2025
Pape Village BIA hosts the Pape Village Block Party, a free two-day festival to unite this east end community through family entertainment.

Village at Black Creek: Fall Festival
Date: September 20-21, 2025
Discover the joy of an old-fashioned autumn as Village at Black Creek celebrates the harvest season with their Fall Festival.

Queen West Art Crawl Festival
Date: September 20-21, 2025
Queen West Art Crawl is an annual outdoor art exhibition and free festival with a kids zone, plus music and drag performances.

VegTO Fest
Date: September 20-21, 2025
VegTO Fest is Toronto’s only free vegan festival, returning to Nathan Phillips Square with plant-based food, wares, and vegan wonders!

Long Branch Neighbourhood Association (LBNA): Long Branch Tree Fest
Date: September 21, 2025
The Long Branch Tree Fest, at Marie Curtis Park in Etobicoke, is a family-friendly educational celebration of trees and nature with live music, local food, children’s activities, tree walks, and exhibitors.

Spadina Museum: Fall Festival
Date: September 28, 2025
Spadina Museum, one of Toronto’s History Museums that offer permanently free admission, hosts a Fall Festival full of fun Autumn-themed activities for the entire family!

Fall Home Show
Date: September 26-28, 2025
The Fall Home Show brings together over 250 home and lifestyle vendors so you can plan your next renovation and learn from the experts, all in one place!

The Word on the Street Festival
Date: September 27-28, 2025
The Word On The Street Festival (WOTS) is a free open-air book and magazine festival, plus an outdoor marketplace showcasing over 100 exhibitors Canadian and Indigenous books, magazines, comics, and more for readers of all ages.

Fall Baby Show Toronto
Date: September 27-28, 2025
This one-stop destination for all things baby-related brings Ontarians the resources and tools they need to feel confident on their journey into parenthood.

Markham Museum: AppleFest
Date: September 27, 2025
Markham Museum presents AppleFest with local businesses, skilled artisans, and engaging activities for the whole family to enjoy, including fresh apple cider making.

Water / Fall Festival
Date: September 27-28 & October 4-5, 2025
The Water/Fall Festival is making its debut on Toronto’s waterfront, and best of all, this fall-inspired festival is FREE to attend! Numerous events are happening, both on land and on water, featuring arts and entertainment, markets, and much more.

Toronto Garlic Festival
Date: September 28, 2025
Dupont by the Castle BIA hosts the Toronto Garlic Festival, a full-day celebration of this fabulously fragrant member of the onion family!

Fall Festivals — October

Diwali RazzMatazz Mississauga
Date: October 3-5, 2025, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Venue: Mississauga Celebration Square, 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga
Diwali RazzMatazz Mississauga features authentic food flavours, plus stage programming, shopping, and kids rides.

Markham Fair
Date: October 3-6, 2025
The Markham Fair is one of Canada’s longest-running county fairs (since 1844!) with children’s activities and entertainment, home craft and agricultural shows, food and much more.

Nuit Blanche
Date: October 4, 2025
Nuit Blanche, Toronto’s highly anticipated annual cultural event, is a free all-night contemporary art party featuring ground-breaking artworks by local, national and international artists.

Tastes of South East Asia: Lantern Festival
Date: October 10-11, 2025
Tastes of South East Asia hosts the Lantern Festival at Mississauga’s Celebration Square, a cultural celebration with glowing lanterns, art and cuisines.

North York Diwali Festival
Date: October 10-12, 2025
North York Diwali Festival brings communities together to experience the joy of Diwali with lights, music, food, and culture.

PumpkinFest Toronto
Date: October 10-13, 2025
PumpkinFest Toronto is the place to celebrate all things autumnal over Thanksgiving weekend, including midway rides and inflatables, live performances, a PAW Patrol meet and greet, and more.

Ball’s Falls Conservation Area: Thanksgiving Festival
Date: October 10-13, 2025
Enjoy the beauty of the Niagara Escarpment at Ball’s Falls Thanksgiving Festival, with food and drink, kid’s entertainment and nature hikes.

Fall For Dance North Festival
Date: October 15-26, 2025
Fall For Dance North Festival, Toronto’s premier international dance festival, includes performances in a diverse range of local, national and international choreographic voices and genres in venues across the city.

Bala Cranberry Festival
Date: October 17-19, 2025
Located in the Muskoka region, the Bala Cranberry Festival celebrates Fall with a crafts show, entertainment and cranberry marsh visits.

Ontario’s Legislative: Queen’s Park Fall Festival
Date: October 18, 2025
Ontario’s Legislative Building hosts the Queen’s Park Fall Festival, with self-guided tours, inflatable corn maze, and fall-themed activities for kids.

Bayview Leaside BIA: Applefest
Date: October 18, 2025
Bayview Leaside BIA hosts Applefest with great FREE entertainment and interactive activities, such as live music, hot beverages, and art installations, plus art tables and face painting for the kids.

Gerrard India Bazaar BIA: Diwali Mela
Date: October 18, 2025
Head down to the Gerrard India Bazaar for Diwali Mela, a free neighbourhood party including a live DJ, sparklers, tasty food, dance performances, sidewalk sales, and more!

Bradley Museum: Halloween Harvest Festival
Date: October 18-19, 2025
Bradley Museum in Mississauga invites families to put on costumes and participate in old-fashioned Halloween and harvest traditions with on-site activities.

Aga Khan Museum: Aga Khan Park Fall Fair
Date: October 19, 2025
Aga Khan Museum hosts a Fall Fair with outdoor activities at the Aga Khan Park and indoors in the museum atrium, including painting, petting zoo, photobooth, live performances, arts and crafts, and costume contest.

Oktoberfest Muskoka
Date: October 23-26, 2025
Immerse yourself in the tastes and sounds of the Oktoberfest Muskoka festival with music, food and beer at local breweries and restaurants.

Markham Museum: ScaryFest
Date: October 25-26, 2025
Join the Markham Museum for spooktacular Halloween fun to enjoy crafts, games, trackless train, live science shows, and more!

The Kingsway BIA: Pumpkinfest
Date: October 25, 2025
The Kingsway is celebrating Halloween with Pumpkinfest, with pumpkin decorating and costume contests, trick-or-treating, crafts and more.

Toronto International Festival of Authors
Date: October 29–November 2, 2025
The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) presents their annual festival that gathers readers and writers from around the globe.

Evergreen Brickworks: Good Mourning Festival
Date: November 1-2, 2025
Celebrate Día de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead), a Latin American holiday where people welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives, including an explosion of colour and activities for both children and adults, plus shopping and delicious food and drink.

FOLD Kids Book Fest
Date: November 4-9, 2025
FOLD Kids Book Fest returns with online and in-person events in Brampton to engage young diverse readers with events by children’s book authors.

Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Date: November 5-15, 2025
Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema.

The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
Date: November 7-16, 2025
One of Toronto’s favourite annual events, the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair returns to Exhibition Place for a barn-full of agricultural fun!

Mississauga Comic Expo (MCX)
Date: November 14-15, 2025
Mississauga Comic Expo features an artist alley, exhibitors, workshops, panels, cosplay, tabletop board game demonstrations, video game free-play session, and more. Plus, admission is free!

Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights
Date: Starts November 15, 2025
Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights is Canada’s largest FREE outdoor light festival, so get your fill of sparkle and good cheer!

Brampton Winter Lights Festival
Date: November 15-29, 2025
The City of Brampton kicks off the holiday season with the Winter Lights Festival in Downtown Brampton, with free family-friendly activities for everyone to enjoy!

Aga Khan Museum: Duende Flamenco Festival
Date: November 16-23, 2025
Explore the multi-disciplinary nature of flamenco as Aga Khan Museum presents the annual Duende Flamenco Festival, which celebrates its fiery world with film screenings, music, and live performances.

The National Women’s Show
Date: November 21-23, 2025
The National Women’s Show is the perfect opportunity to shop, sample food and wine, and indulge in free mini-makeovers with your gal pals.

Native Earth Performing Arts: Weesageechak Begins to Dance
Date: November 21-30, 2025
Native Earth Performing Arts presents Weesageechak Begins to Dance, an annual development festival of Indigenous work, which brings creators from across Turtle Island together to showcase their art.

Regent Park Film Festival
Date: November 27-30, 2025
When: Toronto’s longest-running free film festival, the Regent Park Film Festival strives to amplify marginalized communities and their stories.