TUE 8/18–SUN 8/23
Blue Wahoos vs Knoxville
Blue Wahoos Stadium · Pensacola
The last big August homestand runs the same playbook: Saturday fireworks, and a free-vet Sunday with run-the-bases.
Fireworks Sat 8/22 · Military Family Sunday 8/23
Festivals & markets
The next ninety days of festivals & markets on the coast.
Festivals & markets
42 events
Tuesdays + Thursdays thru FRI 10/2
Wine, Cheese & Sunset Dolphin Cruise: SOL y LUNA
SOL y LUNA, Baytowne Marina, Sandestin · Miramar Beach
SOLARIS's little sister offers a 1.5-hour sunset cruise with two wine pours and a cheese pairing each, dolphins likely.
6:30 PM · 1.5 hr
21+THU 8/20
Bubbly Baytowne: Free Champagne Sip & Shop (21+)
Village of Baytowne Wharf, Sandestin · Miramar Beach
A free evening stroll winds through the village with complimentary bubbly pours at the merchants, a browse-and-taste date that costs nothing unless something in a shop window wins.
5:00-7:00 PM · also 9/17
18+Thursdays thru THU 10/29
College Night: Seville Quarter (18+)
Seville Quarter, Phineas Phogg's · Pensacola
The Gulf Coast's oldest Thursday tradition, in the club room of an 1871 warehouse block.
From 8:00 PM
Fridays thru FRI 10/30
Flip My Quarter: Friday happy hour
Seville Quarter, Apple Annie's · Pensacola
Call the coin flip and the drink is free; miss it and you pay.
6:00-8:00 PM
FRI 8/21
Comedy on the Boulevard: the last summer show
Emerald Coast Theatre Company · Suite 200
This is the final night of ECTC's summer stand-up run, upstairs at Grand Boulevard.
7:00 PM
Saturdays thru SAT 12/26
Palafox Market
MLK Jr. Plaza + Plaza Ferdinand, Downtown Pensacola
A big Saturday market fills downtown with produce, local makers, art, and food.
9 AM-2 PM
Saturdays thru SAT 10/10
Grand Boulevard Farmers' Market
Grand Park, Grand Boulevard at Sandestin · Miramar Beach
A Saturday farmers and makers market fills the Sandestin green, with local honey, produce, and kettle corn.
9 AM-1 PM
Saturdays thru SAT 10/10
Coastal Alabama Farmers & Fishermens Market
Coastal Alabama Market · Foley
The county's largest market sells fresh Gulf seafood straight from the boats plus produce and makers.
9 AM-2 PM
Saturdays thru SAT 10/10
parkrun: Free Timed 5K (Rec Plex North)
UWF Rec Plex North Field · Pensacola
A free, timed, all-comers 5K runs every Saturday.
7:30 AM
SAT 8/22
OWA Community Safety Day
Downtown OWA, Foley
First responders, K-9 demos, and trucks to climb fill OWA's free district, big for both big kids, and the fountain show follows at 6.
2:00-6:00 PM
SAT 8/22
Kellen Erskine: CLEAN Stand-Up (Mattie Kelly)
Mattie Kelly Arts Center, Sprint Theater · Niceville
A Dry Bar-style comic takes the stage, billed by the venue as all-ages clean, the rare comedy night that needs zero content asterisks.
7:00-8:30 PM
Tuesdays and Saturdays thru SAT 10/31
The Brandon Styles Variety Show
Brandon Styles Theater at OWA · Foley
Celebrity impressions, comedy, and magic play a purpose-built theatre at OWA, twice a week.
7:00 PM
18+SAT 8/22
Island Fights 57: The Forgotten Show
Pensacola Bay Center
Pensacola's long-running professional MMA card takes place in the arena.
7:00 PM
Sundays thru SUN 10/11
Sunday Market on Palafox
MLK Jr. Plaza, Downtown Pensacola
The Sunday sibling of Palafox Market brings crafts, art, and prepared food.
~10 AM-3 PM
Sundays thru SUN 10/25
Sunday Brunch with John Wheeler: Seville Quarter
Seville Quarter, Apple Annie's · Pensacola
Brunch runs in the courtyard room while John Wheeler plays through it.
11:00 AM-2:00 PM
Mondays thru MON 10/26
Bar Bingo: Seville Quarter
Seville Quarter, Apple Annie's · Pensacola
A free-to-play bingo night runs in Apple Annie's courtyard room, inside the 1871 warehouse block that has been Pensacola's night-out address for fifty years.
8:00-10:00 PM
21+Tuesdays thru FRI 10/16
Team Trivia Night: Coastal County Brewing
Coastal County Brewing Co. · Pensacola
Grab a team and a local craft pour.
6:30 PM
WED 8/26
Blue Angels Practice + AUTOGRAPHS
National Naval Aviation Museum · NAS Pensacola
The Wednesday practice comes with pilot autographs after.
Wednesday's practice ~10:30 AM · autographs after
18+Wednesdays thru FRI 10/16
Ladies Night: Flora-Bama
Flora-Bama Lounge · Perdido Key
The legendary state-line roadhouse runs Ladies Night every Wednesday 6-9 with free admission, then live music across its stages the rest of the night.
6:00-9:00 PM
FRI 8/28
Light of the Moon Climb: Pensacola Lighthouse
Pensacola Lighthouse & Maritime Museum, NAS Pensacola
Climb 177 steps, then watch sunset over the Gulf on one side and the full moon rising on the other.
4:30-8:30 PM · sunset + moonrise
TUE 9/1
Blue Angels Practice: NAS Flight Line
National Naval Aviation Museum flight line · NAS Pensacola
Watch from the flight line, then visit the free museum (150+ aircraft, cockpit trainers) afterward.
Tuesday's practice ~10:30 AM (~45 min)
FRI 9/4–SAT 9/5
Leanne Morgan: Clean Comedy (date night)
Pensacola Bay Center
Clean stand-up comedy plays two nights at the Bay Center, a date-night pick for the adults, not a kids' show.
7:00 PM
TUE 9/8–SUN 9/13
Blue Wahoos vs Biloxi: FINAL 2026 Homestand
Blue Wahoos Stadium · Pensacola
The season finale hits the bay: last fireworks Saturday, last free-vet Sunday, and cooler evenings.
Fireworks Sat 9/12 · Military Family Sunday 9/13
TUE 9/15
Blue Angels Practice: mid-September
National Naval Aviation Museum flight line · NAS Pensacola
The last July practice fills the slot for the second wave of visiting family.
Tuesday's practice ~10:30 AM
THU 9/17
Sportsman's Night Out
Pensacola Bay Center
A hunting, fishing, and outdoors expo night brings gear and displays the 9-year-old will graze for hours.
6:30 PM
FRI 9/25–SUN 9/27
Pensacola Seafood Festival (52nd)
Seville Square, Historic Downtown · Pensacola
The big hometown seafood festival fills the Seville oaks, with free entry, a kids' art area, and live music all weekend.
11 AM-11 PM · Sat 10 AM-11 PM · Sun 11 AM-5 PM
FRI 9/25–SUN 9/27
Destin Seafood Festival (48th)
Destin Harbor Boardwalk
More than 75 vendors and live music fill the whole walkable harbor.
Sat 10 AM-10 PM · Sun 10 AM-6 PM
SAT 9/26
Seafood Fest 5K + FREE Kids' Mile
Downtown / Seville Square · Pensacola
The best family race of the fall has parents run the 5K, then the kids run a free timed kids' mile at 9, with no pre-dawn wake-up, and the festival goes on around it.
5K 7:30 AM · Kids Mile 9:00 AM
SAT 9/26
Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias: The 1976 Tour
Pensacola Bay Center
The biggest-room comedy of the fall is Fluffy, who runs mostly clean (PG-13, mild language, no filth).
Evening
SAT 9/26
Light of the Moon Climb: September Full Moon
Pensacola Lighthouse & Maritime Museum, NAS Pensacola
The September edition of the sunset-and-moonrise climb brings the first properly cool evening of the series, and it falls on a Saturday.
4:30-8:30 PM
SAT 9/26
Gabriel Iglesias: The 1976 Tour
Pensacola Bay Center
"Fluffy" brings The 1976 Tour downtown.
Time TBA
SAT 9/26
Seiz Up 5K: Epilepsy Awareness Run
Casino Beach Boardwalk, Pensacola Beach · Gulf Breeze
This local epilepsy-awareness run at Casino Beach offers 5K, half, and full distances.
8:00 AM
THU 10/1–SAT 10/31
Destin Fishing Rodeo: Daily Weigh-Ins (all October)
AJ's Seafood & Oyster Bar docks · Destin
Every October afternoon, giant fish get hoisted and weighed dockside.
10 AM-7 PM
SUN 10/4
Take a Kid Fishing Day: Okaloosa Island Pier
Okaloosa Island Pier · Fort Walton Beach
Kids twelve and under fish free for the whole day, the first hundred get a rod to keep, and the pier lends tackle to anyone who needs it.
7:00 AM-4:00 PM
THU 10/8–SUN 10/11
53rd National Shrimp Festival: Gulf Shores
Gulf Shores Public Beach
The Gulf Coast's giant beach festival brings a Children's Activity Village, a sand-sculpture contest, three music stages, and more than 250 vendors.
10 AM-10 PM · Sun 10 AM-5 PM
THU 10/8–SUN 10/11
Taste of the Beach: Pensacola Beach
Casino Beach / beach venues · Pensacola Beach
A beach food festival fills the weekend.
Sat daytime = the family window
18+FRI 10/9
Daniel Tosh: My First Farewell Tour
Saenger Theatre, Pensacola
Tosh's "My First Farewell Tour" plays the Saenger downtown.
7:00 PM
THU 10/22–SUN 11/1
Pensacola Interstate Fair
Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds
Eleven days of rides, livestock barns and fried everything at the fairgrounds off Mobile Highway.
Oct 22 – Nov 1
21+FRI 10/23
Taste of Gulf Breeze (21+)
Gulf Breeze Community Center
The Chamber's annual tasting night features more than 50 local restaurants, food trucks, and bakeries with unlimited samples, Golden Spatula voting, and a live DJ.
6-9 PM · VIP entry 5 PM
FRI 11/6–SAT 11/7
Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show: NAS Pensacola
NAS Pensacola
The season-closing Homecoming show on the base is the fall core-memory for an aviation kid.
Gates ~8 AM (prior years)
WED 11/18
Whose Live Anyway?
Saenger Theatre · Pensacola
The 'Whose Line' improv cast performs live, fast, clean, audience-driven comedy.
7:30 PM