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Monterey Bay Greek Festival
The Monterey Bay Greek Festival has no announced 2026 date, and this page will not guess one. What the organisers do publish is the pattern: Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church of Monterey County holds it every Labor Day weekend, Saturday to Monday, at Custom House Plaza beside Old Fisherman’s Wharf. If you are planning around it, that is the weekend to keep free.
When
Date not yet announced
The organizer has not published a 2026 date yet. This page will carry the date once one is announced — we don't estimate them.
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Where this listing comes from
The date, venue and category above were taken from these published sources. If one of them has changed, the organizer's own page wins.
What “every Labor Day weekend” means for 2026
Labor Day 2026 falls on Monday 7 September. So if the festival runs to its usual pattern, it would land on 5–7 September — but that is arithmetic on a recurring rule, not a date anyone has announced, and it is not what this page publishes. The date field above stays empty and this listing carries no event date in its structured data until the organisers announce one.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A date computed from a pattern looks identical to a confirmed one once it has been copied into a few calendars, and by then nobody can tell which it was. Treat 5–7 September as the weekend to hold, and confirm before you book anything around it.
What it is
It is the parish’s largest fundraiser of the year rather than a commercial festival, which shapes the whole character of it: the food is cooked by parishioners to recipes and techniques carried over from Greece, not brought in by caterers. Expect Greek cuisine, wine and pastries, live Greek music and dancing, on the waterfront plaza at Custom House.
Custom House Plaza sits inside Monterey State Historic Park, flat and paved, immediately beside Old Fisherman’s Wharf and walkable from downtown Monterey. It is the same plaza the Turkish festival uses in August.
Common questions
- When is the Monterey Bay Greek Festival in 2026?
- Not yet announced. The organisers hold it every Labor Day weekend, Saturday to Monday. Labor Day 2026 is Monday 7 September, so that weekend is the one to keep free — but no 2026 date has been published and this page does not estimate one.
- Who runs it?
- Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church of Monterey County. The festival is the parish’s largest fundraising event of the year.
- Where is it held?
- Custom House Plaza in Monterey, inside Monterey State Historic Park and directly beside Old Fisherman’s Wharf.
Also in September 2026
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