Austin Fall Festivals – Fall 2025 TX Events

Austin Empty Bowl Project - Austin, TX - Nov 24 to Nov 24, 2024
Sunday before Thanksgiving. Select your bowl from thousands of locally made ceramic bowls, fill it with gourmet soup and bread from area restaurants, and enjoy live music while you eat. Your $25 donation goes to help hungry kids, and you get to keep the bowl.

Texas Book Festival  - Austin, TX - Nov 16 to Nov 17, 2024
More than 250 authors will attend. Admission is free. The event is held at the State Capitol.

Texas Craft Brewers Festival - Austin, TX - Nov 16 to Nov 16, 2024
The state’s largest craft beer event focuses exclusively on Texas-produced craft beer. 21+ event at Fiesta Gardens, featuring live music, food trucks, and beer sampling from 90 small and independent Texas craft breweries! Since 2003.

Austin Celtic Festival - Austin, TX - Nov 2 to Nov 3, 2024
Celtic music, dances, Highland Games, dog parade, workshops and more at Fiesta Gardens.

More than Pink Walk – Austin - Austin, TX - Oct 27 to Oct 27, 2024
Walk/run to raise funds for the Susan G Koman breast cancer foundation.

Austin Film Festival - Austin, TX - Oct 24 to Oct 31, 2024
Film pass permits access to 180 premieres, indie films, narrative and documentary competition, shorts program and more.

Hogeye Festival - Elgin, TX - Oct 24 to Oct 26, 2024
A free, small town family friendly festival with BBQ pork cook-off, carnival, car show, beer/wine garden, arts/crafts and children’s activities.

German-Texan Heritage Society Oktoberfest - Austin, TX - Oct 12 to Oct 12, 2024
Celebrate Oktoberfest at the German-Texan Heritage Society from 11am – 7pm. Come and enjoy some Gemuetlichkeit, German food and beer as well as live bands.

AustOberfest - Austin, TX - Oct 5 to Oct 5, 2024
All you can eat sausage and bier tasting event. Celebrate your German heritage in Central Texas with German beer, sausages, live music and bowling! According to the Austin Chronicle, “the German-Texan Heritage Society certainly brings the most authentic Oktoberfest game in town”

Austin City Limits Music Festival - Austin, TX - Oct 4 to Oct 13, 2024
Impressive lineup of 100+ bands on 8 stages over two weekends. One of the leading fall music festivals in America.

Oktoberfest Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg, TX - Oct 4 to Oct 6, 2024
If you are looking for an Austin Oktoberfest, we encourage you to check out the Fredericksburg Oktoberfest, located 90 minutes east of Austin. It will celebrate with three stages of oompah music, German bier tent, Kinder Park area for kids, arts & crafts, domino tournament and the chicken dance. Location: 100 West Main, Fredericksburg

Cotton Harvest Festival - Moody, TX - Sep 28 to Sep 28, 2024
Parade, pie eating contest and auction, car smash, kids zone, car show, donut eating contest, live entertainment and more.

Banger’s Oktoberfest - Austin, TX - Sep 26 to Sep 28, 2024

Fantastic Fest - Austin, TX - Sep 19 to Sep 26, 2024
A genre film festival specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi and action movies from around the world. Held at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

Texas Tribune Festival - Austin, TX - Sep 5 to Sep 7, 2024
An annual event where politicians explore the state’s most pressing issues.

Walburg German Restaurant Oktoberfest - Walburg, TX - Aug 30 to Sep 1, 2024
Live entertainment, family friendly, and beer garden

Salado Scottish Gathering of the Clans and Highland Games - Salado, TX - Nov 10 to Nov 12, 2023
The three-day event includes the skirl of the bagpipes, the wearing of the tartan, tossing the caber, Highland dancing, Celtic entertainers, shopping, food and fun. One of the event’s main features is the Clan Village, the largest gathering of Scottish Clan tents in Texas where Clan members share information about Scottish history and genealogy.

Utopia Fest Down in the Oaks - Burnet, TX - Oct 13 to Oct 14, 2023
Music festival on a sprawling private ranch near Burnet, promising no overlapping music and a place to disconnect and rejuvenate. Camping, workshops and other activities are available.

Whitestone Brewery Oktoberfest - Cedar Park, TX - Sep 24 to Sep 24, 2022
Live music, cask tapping, food specials, stein hoist, and beer releases