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Alfama, Lisbon
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You've been in Lisbon
for three months.
You just discovered you missed Santo António.
The whole city celebrated just last week. Streets filled with music, grilled sardines, and locals dancing until dawn. Your neighbors still have decorations up. The café owner mentions it was the best night of the year.
You lived through it without knowing it existed.
This isn't about one festival. It's about every time you've arrived somewhere a week too late, left a day too early, or spent months in a place and never knew what locals actually celebrate.
This is the problem we solve.
The world operates on hidden calendars—lunar dates, harvest cycles, saint days that locals anticipate all year. We decode them all.
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Today we cover 1,610 live festivals across 37 countries (with 146 focus areas mapped). The Research Center has mapped 209 countries with 1,042 focus areas—new areas unlock each week as discovery completes.
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How FestivalAtlas helps
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What we optimise for
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How FestivalAtlas helps
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We are currently validating the experience with these four traveler mindsets. Beta members receive monthly research updates as new countries go live.
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