Las Fallas Valencia 2027: Schedule, Tickets, Travel Tips

The Cremà of Las Fallas falls on Friday 19 March 2027, the feast of Saint Joseph, when the monuments across Valencia are burned ¹⁴. The festival is expected to run from Monday 1 March 2027, the first daily mascletà, to that Friday, with the five main days from 15 to 19 March ¹⁸. Saint Joseph is the patron saint of carpenters, and Valencian carpenters once burned the planks called parots that had held their candles through the winter ¹⁸.

In 2027 the Cremà coincides with Viernes de Dolor, the Friday of Sorrows, so the 31 brotherhoods of Valencia's Semana Santa Marinera have given up processing on 19 March ¹⁴. More than 80 processions are planned from 20 to 28 March 2027 instead ¹⁴.

A falla presidents' assembly reported on 22 April 2026 set casal tent assembly from 11 March 2027, allowed orchestras on 13 and 15 to 18 March 2027 and ruled out mojito stalls in the streets ⁸. A proposal for a third Ofrenda day won 203 of 327 votes, 15 short of the 218 needed, so the flower offering stays on 17 and 18 March 2027 ¹¹.

Beatriz Blanco of the Castelló-Sogorb commission is Fallera Mayor de València 2027, and Julia Vizcayno of Rosari-Plaça Calabuig is Fallera Mayor Infantil 2027, both named in October 2026 ¹⁰. The municipal falla for Plaza del Ayuntamiento in 2027 is “Vuelvo a mi tierra” by Baenas Tándem, designed by José Luís Santés, with a budget of 240,000 EUR ¹⁷. The children's municipal falla, “Temps de falles” by Ceballos and Sanabria, has 44,000 EUR ¹⁷.

Visit València lists the 2027 Crida, the opening call from the Torres de Serranos, for Sunday 28 February 2027; in 2026 it took place on Sunday 22 February at 19:30 ².

Each day of Fallas begins at 8:00 with La Despertà, the wake-up call, when brass bands march out of the casals and the fallers behind them throw large firecrackers ¹⁸. The mascletà follows in Plaza del Ayuntamiento at 14:00 every day from 1 to 19 March ¹. As the clock strikes, the Fallera Major calls from the City Hall balcony “Senyor pirotècnic, pot començar la mascletà!”, and pyrotechnicians compete for the honour of firing the last mascletà on 19 March ¹⁸. Wind or rain can stop it: one mascletà suspended in March 2026 became a night mascletà on 2 May 2026 at 21:00 ⁸.

The plantà raises the monuments in the street. In 2026 the children's fallas went up from 9:00 on 15 March and all main fallas from 8:00 on 16 March ². That night, L'Alba de les Falles, ended with a 23:59 display in Plaza del Ayuntamiento ².

Fireworks castles fire from the Monteolivete bridge in the Turia Garden from 16 to 18 March, and the last of them is Nit del Foc, the largest display of the week ³. In 2026 each castle started at 23:59 ².

Saint Joseph's Day in 2026 followed this timetable ²:

• At 11:00, a flower offering to the Patriarch took place on the San José bridge ².
• At 19:00, the Cabalgata del Fuego fire parade ran from Calle de la Paz to Porta de la Mar ².
• At 20:00, the children's fallas began to burn, with the children's falla in Plaza del Ayuntamiento at 21:00 ².
• At 22:00, all the fallas of Valencia burned, with the Sección Especial winner at 22:30 ².
• At 23:00, the falla in Plaza del Ayuntamiento burned last ².

On 17 and 18 March, every falla commission in the city walks to Plaza de la Virgen to offer flowers to the Virgen de los Desamparados, the patron of Valencia, known affectionately as the Geperudeta ⁹. A huge reproduction of the Virgin stands in the square, and a team climbs its frame to place each bouquet handed over by the falleros and falleras ⁹. The figure stands near the Cathedral and the Basilica of Our Lady of the Forsaken, and the statue and its large pedestal end up covered with the flowers ¹⁸.

In 2026 the parade ran from 15:30 to 01:00 on both days ¹. On 17 March 2026 the first commissions entered along Calle de la Paz and Calle de San Vicente, and the Fallera Mayor Infantil, Marta Mercader Roig, closed the day at 01:00 ⁹. On 18 March 2026 the Fallera Mayor, Carmen Prades Gil, closed the parade at 00:40 ⁹.

In 2027 the Fallera Mayor Infantil closes the parade on 17 March and the Fallera Mayor on 18 March ¹¹. That puts Julia Vizcayno at the end of the first day and Beatriz Blanco at the end of the second ¹⁰.

Metro lines 3, 5 and 9 serve the old town for the Ofrenda ⁹. On the night of 17 March a castle follows in the Turia Garden, and on 18 March Nit del Foc ⁹.

Calle de la Paz and Calle de San Vicente give closer views of the costumes than the packed square, while the cloak is best seen from Plaza de la Virgen late on 18 March, once the last bouquets are in place.

The Sección Especial is the group of the largest and most prestigious falla commissions in Valencia, first created in 1942 ¹⁸. Na Jordana had taken part most often, 62 times, as of 2015, and every other falla competes in classes set by the money invested in its monument ¹⁸. Winning the Sección Especial first prize is the highest honour a falla can take ¹⁸.

Each falla stands inside a fence, and for the Sección Especial the inside is ticketed. In 2026 one digital pass opened the interiors of all nine fallas of the Sección Especial federation on 16, 17, 18 and 19 March ⁴. The nine were Cuba-Literato Azorín, Exposición, Avenida Reino de Valencia-Duque de Calabria, L'Antiga de Campanar, Plaza del Pilar, Almirante Cadarso-Conde Altea, Convento de Jerusalén-Matemático Marzal, Plaza Na Jordana and Sueca-Literato Azorín ⁴. The pass cost 17 EUR for adults and 12 EUR for children aged 4 to 12, and arrived by email as a digital voucher ⁴.

The 2026 first prize went to Convento de Jerusalén-Matemático Marzal for “¡Redimonis! Quin és el teu preu?” by David Sánchez Llongo, budgeted at 260,000 EUR, the most expensive monument of the festival ¹⁶. L'Antiga de Campanar took second and Na Jordana third ¹⁶. The first-prize falla burned at 22:30 on 19 March 2026, half an hour after the rest ².

Guided falla walks were listed from 19 EUR in 2026 ¹.

Without the pass, the nine monuments can still be seen from outside their fences; the pass buys a close look at the ninots.

A falla is a monument made of ninots, caricature figures created by local artists and craftspeople, and the craft is passed down within families, especially in the guilds that build them ¹⁹. Since 1934 each falla has sent one figure to the Exposició del Ninot, where a public vote picks the ninot indultat, the figure spared from the fire ¹⁸. That pardoned ninot goes to the Museo Fallero ¹⁸.

In 2026 the exhibition ran until 15 March at the Science Museum ¹. It closed at 17:00 on 15 March 2026, and the ninot indultat was proclaimed at 17:30 ².

Two figures were spared in 2026: “Deixem la guerra en pau” by Pedro Santaeulalia, about children's suffering in wars, and the children's ninot “La meua germana és la nova fallera major infantil de València” by Zvonimir Ostoic “Z” for the Espartero-Ramón y Cajal falla ²⁰. Both have been on display at the Museo Fallero since August 2026 ²⁰.

The Museo Fallero stands at Montolivet 4, postcode 46006 ⁵. Its permanent collection holds the large and children's ninots indultats, Fallas posters and portraits of the Falleras Mayores ⁵. It opens from Tuesday to Saturday and on Sunday and holiday mornings from 10:00, and closes on Mondays ⁵. An audioguide in five languages costs 1 EUR ⁵.

UNESCO inscribed the Valencia Fallas festivity on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016 ¹⁹. The tenth anniversary of that declaration falls in November 2026 ⁸.

The airport metro station is the end of line 3 to Rafelbunyol and line 5 to Marítim, with departures every 15 to 20 minutes and a trip of about 20 minutes ⁶. The airport fare was listed at 4.80 EUR plus a rechargeable card in 2026 ⁶. Xàtiva is the stop for Plaza del Ayuntamiento outside mascletà hours.

For Fallas 2026 Metrovalencia scheduled 168 hours of nonstop metro and tram service, from 13 March to the early hours of 20 March, with 13,387 trips ¹². All EMT night bus lines were set to double their frequency and run without interruption from 15 to 20 March 2026 ¹².

Station closures are the trap. On the mascletà days of 14 to 19 March 2026, Xàtiva and Colón stations closed from 12:30 to 14:30, and the pedestrian passage to Alacant shut from 12:20 to 14:30 ¹³. Alameda, Bailén, Plaça Espanya and Àngel Guimerà were the recommended alternatives ¹³. Because the castles were fired from the City of Arts and Sciences side in 2026, Alameda station stayed open all night on castle nights ¹³.

How to move around Valencia during falla week:

• Walk inside the old town. Streets around Plaza del Ayuntamiento close to cars for the mascletà and the Ofrenda.
• Leave from Alameda after the castles. The passage between Xàtiva and Alacant closed from 22:00 to 02:00 on 17 and 18 March 2026 ¹³.
• Use metro lines 3, 5 and 9 for the Ofrenda. They serve the old town around Plaza de la Virgen ⁹.

Across the years 1938 to 2017, the falla week of 15 to 19 March averaged daytime highs of 19.1 C and night lows of 8.8 C in Valencia, according to AEMET, the Spanish weather agency ¹⁵. In half of those years, 40 out of 80, the week had no day of measurable rain ¹⁵. Sunshine averaged seven and a half hours a day ¹⁵.

The weather risk that matters for the programme is the poniente, the dry westerly wind. In 2001, 2007 and 2011 it blew on at least one falla day, with midday gusts above 60 km/h ¹⁵. The windiest falla day in recent years was 16 March 2001, with gusts of 69 km/h at Manises and 67 km/h in the city ¹⁵. One mascletà suspended for bad weather in March 2026 was rescheduled for 2 May 2026 ⁸.

Crowds build towards the Cremà. Hotel occupancy for 13 to 19 March 2026 stood at 67 percent one week before the festival, about 73 percent on the night of 14 to 15 March and 76.7 percent on 18 to 19 March, the busiest night ⁷. The 14:00 mascletà in Plaza del Ayuntamiento runs every day from 1 March, well before the five main days ^{1 18}.

How early to arrive for each moment:

• Ofrenda: before the 15:30 start used in 2026, on Calle de la Paz or Calle de San Vicente ^{1 9}.
• Castles: an hour before the 23:59 start used in 2026, on the Turia Garden lawns ².
• Cremà: a neighbourhood falla from the 22:00 burning used in 2026, rather than the 23:00 falla in Plaza del Ayuntamiento ².

Earplugs, broken-in closed shoes, a warm layer for midnight and a compact rain jacket cover falla week. Natural fabrics are safer than synthetics near the Cremà, where sparks fly.

The despertà starts at 8:00 every falla day, with brass bands and firecrackers marching out from each casal ¹⁸. In 2026 the Macrodespertà even began at 7:30 on Sunday 22 February, promoted by the Corona falla and ending in Plaza del Ayuntamiento ². Rooms close to a casal hear it first; rooms in quieter districts linked by metro or tram hear little of it.

Valencia's official figures show how full the city gets. One week before Fallas 2026, hotel occupancy for 13 to 19 March stood at 67 percent, with an average room rate of 166 EUR per night ⁷. The dearest night was 14 March 2026, at 179 EUR ⁷. Tourist apartments averaged 60.7 percent occupancy for the same week in 2026 ⁷.

Where to stay depends on how much noise a traveller can sleep through:

• Ciutat Vella around Plaza del Ayuntamiento: a walk to the mascletà, the Ofrenda and the City Hall falla, but loud well after midnight.
• Russafa: fallas, street lights and cafés on the doorstep, and just as loud as the old town.
• Near the City of Arts and Sciences: close to the Monteolivete bridge for the castles ³, a longer walk to the old town.
• Benimaclet or the Cabanyal beach side: quieter, linked by metro or tram.

The casal tents go up from 11 March 2027 ⁸. A street that looks quiet in a booking photo may host a tent and an orchestra by plantà week, so double glazing and cancellation terms are worth checking before paying.

Tip: A room two or three stops out from Xàtiva on a metro line keeps the despertà distant and the square reachable for 14:00.

Expect it to slow down. Agree a meeting point with your group before the 14:00 mascletà ¹ and before Nit del Foc on 18 March ³. For Fallas 2026 Metrovalencia forecast three million metro riders over the seven central days ¹². That gives a sense of how many phones share the same masts. Public Wi-Fi in the squares is not a dependable fallback during falla week.

What a phone does in Valencia during falla week:

• Maps: detours around Xàtiva and Colón, closed from 12:30 to 14:30 on the mascletà days of 14 to 19 March 2026 ¹³.
• Passes: the Sección Especial QR voucher, shown at nine falla entrances from 16 to 19 March 2026 ⁴.
• Translation: menus, casal notices and street signs in Valencian and Spanish.
• Live location: regrouping after the mascletà, the Ofrenda or the castles.

Maps, messages and QR passes use little data; filming the mascletà, the castles and the Cremà every day is what uses most of it. Coverage details for a Spain data plan are on the Spain eSIM page.

A phone is also what pickpockets want in the mascletà crush. A zipped bag worn in front keeps it and a wallet safer, especially in Plaza del Ayuntamiento and on Calle de la Paz during the Ofrenda. Spectators should stand back from anyone lighting firecrackers, never pick up one that did not go off, and keep children behind the safety fences at the Cremà.

In 2026 the falla in Plaza del Ayuntamiento burned at 23:00 ². A charged power bank keeps the phone alive for the walk home after it.

Tip: Save the accommodation address and a meeting point in the phone's notes and on paper. If the network stalls after the Cremà, the way back is still clear.