Gold Coast Events

Events & Festivals

The Indy drivers will be burning up the streets of Surfers Paradise in the IndyCar Gold Coast racing spectacular.

The streets of Main Beach and Surfers Paradise will be jam-packed with some 12,000 runners contesting the Gold Coast Marathon week.

Other sports classics held through the year include the Surfers Paradise International Aquathon and the Players Championships. These and other major sporting events draw hundreds of thousands of spectators to the Gold Coast and are watched by hundreds of millions of television viewers globally.

What makes each event special is its Gold Coast setting, unrivalled for sheer visual impact, and the wide range of support attractions, accommodation and entertainment.

Every month brings a colourful and exciting line-up of artistic displays, performances, festivals, sporting spectaculars and cultural events on the Gold Coast.

There are country shows and rodeos, an international film festival, classic car and yacht displays and boating festivals.

This year will begin with a carnival of colour on and off the track at the Gold Coast Turf Club. The Magic Millions Summer Carnival will attract bloodstock, racing fans and high rollers from Australia and the Asia-Pacific region for 10 days of serious racing and glamorous entertainment.

Events celebrating the harvest of rich produce include the Beenleigh Cane Festival, the Avocado and Rhubarb Festival at Tamborine Mountain and the Tweed Banana Festival and Harvest Week at Murwillumbah.

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