What’s On in Chennai
Concerts, festivals, exhibitions, food pop-ups and talks happening in Chennai over the next couple of weeks, pulled from public listings every night — and a simple way to put your own event in front of people planning a trip to the city.
Upcoming events
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Headlines are gathered automatically from public news and event listings and link to the source. Dates, venues and tickets are the organiser’s; please confirm before travelling. For the big religious and cultural festivals, see our festival guides.
For today’s rain, alerts, power cuts and panchangam alongside these events, see Chennai Today.
📣 Organising something in Chennai?
Tell us about it and we’ll consider it for this page. Free for community, cultural and non-profit events; paid featured listings for everything else.
List your event →Free vs featured listings
We keep this page useful for visitors first. Two kinds of listing:
| Free listing | Featured listing | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Temple festivals, classical concerts, community and non-profit events, free exhibitions | Ticketed shows, commercial expos, restaurant and hotel events, product launches, anything promotional |
| Where it appears | In this list, in date order, when accepted | At the top of this list with a “Featured” label, plus a mention in the homepage What’s On section while it is live |
| What you get | Name, date, venue, one line and a link | Name, date, venue, a short description you approve, ticket link and organiser contact |
| Cost | Free | ₹2,000 per event (introductory 2026–27 price) |
| How long | Until the event date | Up to 30 days before the event, until the event date |
Every submission is read by a person. We reply by email, usually within a few days, and we say no to anything that is not a real event in or around Chennai. Featured listings are always labelled as paid, and paying never changes what we write elsewhere on the site. Businesses looking for longer-term visibility should see the advertising and sponsorship page, which also covers festival-guide sponsorship and “Featured near this temple” placements.
Festival season at a glance
The biggest fixed dates in the Chennai year have their own guides, with this year’s dates, where to go and what to eat: Deepavali, Skanda Shashti, Karthigai Deepam, the Margazhi music season, Vaikunta Ekadashi, Arudra Darshan, Pongal, Thai Poosam, Navaratri and Golu and Ayudha Puja. The full multi-year list is on the festival calendar.