Events in the Resort for All Reasons!

If your heart craves excitement but your body is content with the couch - pull up a beach chair and enjoy! The most knock-out, exciting sporting spectacles take place in sunny Newquay - the Resort for All Reasons - so keep checking the Events List and get ready to get on down for thrills and spills galore.

Those visitors with a more gentle disposition should seek out special events, fetes, festivals and fun days organised by the town, its schools, social groups, emergency services and charities. Don’t miss talented Cornish Town Bands which play on the Killacourt throughout the summer, and excellent choral events, arranged by local Churches, provide music to the ears.

Surfing Events in Newquay

Surf Championships

You never go far in Newquay without glimpsing the sea, and when you do chances are you'll see the surfers. Newquay is an internationally rated surfing resort and as such attracts surfing events from the world class circuits like the Boardmasters Surf Championship.

Surfing, shows, music and much more!!

Polo on the Beach

We don’t do donkeys - we do do polo ponies! Join an excited crowd of spectators as they cheer each chukka of this centuries old sport, magically relocated to Watergate Bay, Newquay. With amazing skills, riders and mounts manoeuvre and bump their way to win the very special Polo on the Beach annual challenge.


 
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Run To The Sun

From the M4 corridor to Newquay’s cliff tops - enjoy the ride with dedicated VW enthusiasts as they Run to the Sun. Where else does car, dance, beach and festival merge to spark the energy that makes this weekend so outstanding Tregunnel Car Park, May 30 - see the shiny and modified gather in RttS’s time-honoured way. Be there!


 
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Newquay Fish Festival

Join throngs of visitors from far and wide to experience Newquay’s fantastic three-day Fish Festival, held annually in autumn sunshine, on the town’s historic and picturesque Harbour. The celebrations highlight the work of industrious local fishermen and Newquay’s innovative culinary experts who turn the catch into fish dishes to dine for!


 
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Zap Cats

Thrill seekers who love the buzz of water sports but don’t want to get their hair wet should head for Fistral beach and be stunned by this fast growing sport - Zapcat racing. Amazingly agile craft challenge each other, at breakneck speeds, in pursuit of victory. To call these events exhilarating is an understatement!


 
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