Whale watching
2024 Whale watching season starts TBA - ending late October
COME AND STAY AT EMERALD SANDS AND ASK US ABOUT DISCOUNTED SEAWORLD CRUISE TICKETS
BLEACH* Festival
The 13th Annual BLEACH* Festival is one of Australia’s leading and most exciting site-specific contemporary arts programs.
The festival celebrates the city’s most dynamic and adventurous artists, welcomes renowned Australian and international collaborators and engages a broad audience through a range of events.
Utilising the Gold Coast’s world-famous natural landscape as unconventional venues, BLEACH* aims to deliver incredible arts and cultural experiences that challenge expectations, change perceptions and provide a unique and authentic sense of place.
Pacific Airshow®
Pacific Airshow Redefining The Airshow Experience again - on the Gold Coast!
Pacific Airshow Gold Coast is a three-day weekend event featuring heart-pumping aerobatic demonstrations by the world’s finest aviators, VIP meet and greet events, social parties, family fun, licensed ticket precinct and more! Featuring some of the best civilian performers and military aviators from around the globe, Pacific Airshow Gold Coast is the largest Airshow event to ever take place in Australia with more than 200,000 watching on from accross the ticketed precinct, nearby beaches and balconies above!
Springtime
IT'S FREE!
06 SEPTEMBER 2024 | 12:00 PM TO SUNDAY, 08 SEPTEMBER 2024 | 08:00 PM
Keen for some live music with the golden sands beneath your feet and the ocean breeze in your hair? SPRINGTIME will be back 6–8 September, 2024!
Open to all ages, the three-day non-ticketed festival is held throughout the streets, venues and beach of Surfers Paradise. The 2023 line-up was led by electronic duo Bag Raiders (DJ Set), New Zealand alt-pop artist Benee, indie-pop icon Matt Corby and heaps more local artists like Boo Seeka, Babe Rainbow, Eliza & The Delusionals, as well as Grentperez, Sycco and more.
Groundwater Country Music Festival
FRIDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2024 | 12:00 PM TO 10:00 PM
The Groundwater Country Music Festival will be back on the coast again from 18 to 20 October!
With 1300 songs, 135 live shows and close to 60 homegrown and international artist across 15 stages, Groundwater 2023 delivered a massive 10 year celebration. From Aussie country legends like Lee Kernaghan, Casey Barnes, Amber Lawrence, The Wolfe Brothers, Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole, as well as international stars like Jackson Dean and Asleep at the Wheel, it was three jam-packed days of incredible country music.
SUPERCARS
2024 Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500
The 2024 Repco Supercars Championship returns to Surfers Paradise on 25th-27th of October for the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500
Magic Millions Race Carnival and Yearling Sales
GOLD COAST MAGIC MILLIONS
3-17 January 2024
EMERALD SANDS - Situated just 4.2Klm from the sales and race course
The Luxury Travel & Crusie Event
The Luxury Travel & Crusie Event Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, 2684-2690 Gold Coast Highway, Broadbeach, 4218,
NEXT DATE: SUNDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2024 | 10:00 AM TO 03:00 PM
A world of luxury awaits you.
We invite you to explore a curated collection the only truly luxury travel consumer event in Australia. Here, guests are invited to meet the travel suppliers and advisors behind the world’s most exceptional and bespoke luxury travel experiences.
One Sunny Race Day
SATURDAY, 02 MARCH 2024 | 11:00 AM TO 05:00 PM Gold Coast Turf Club, 6 Racecourse Drive, Bundall, 4217,
Giddy up, Gold Coast! Ronald McDonald House Charities are hosting a charity race day to raise much-needed funds for sick or injured kids and their families.
Join us at the Gold Coast Turf Club events centre for a day of sensational sips, mouth-watering morsels, live auctions and premium trackside views of the races.
NRL Opening Round
AFL Opening Round
Gold Coast Suns v Richmond
Get your game on! The Gold Coast Suns take on Richmond in a historic opening round blockbuster at Heritage Bank Stadium!
SATURDAY, 09 MARCH 2024 | 01:15 PM TO 06:30 PM
Pho3nix Gold Coast Triathlon
Gold Coast Triathlon
The Pho3nix Gold Coast Triathlon – Luke Harrop Memorial on Sunday 7 April has long been known as the triathlon for triathletes – if there is one race on the calendar not to miss, this is it.
We can’t wait to showcase our beautiful Broadwater venue. Click Picture for event details
Blues on Broadbeach
THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024 | 12:00 AM TO SUNDAY, 19 MAY 2024
Blues on Broadbeach is back from 16 to 19 May!
Set to transform the Gold Coast into a rhythm and blues mecca for four days! The electrifying first line-up features some of the world’s best female blues guitarists, who are sure to set the stage alight.
With two-time Grammy award-winner Melissa Etheridge, blues-rock artists Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton, Ana Popovic, fiery bluesman Eric Bibb and returning favourite Lloyd Spiegel. It’s going to be a massive 23rd year for Blues on Broadbeach.
SeaFire
01 JUNE 2024 | 12:00 AM
Save the date! SeaFire, the Gold Coast’s very own fireworks competition, is returning to the shores of Surfers Paradise Beach.
SeaFire is a free family-friendly event. Why not make a weekend of it with a Staycation or book the family in for dinner at one of the mouth-watering Surfers Paradise restaurants.
Cooly Rocks On
WEDNESDAY, 05 JUNE 2024 | 12:00 AM TO SUNDAY, 09 JUNE 2024 | 11:59 PM
Cooly Rocks On returns to celebrate the motors, music and lifestyle of yesteryear. Featuring one of Australia’s best Show ‘n’ Shine displays, the festival showcases an impressive collection of hot rods, Kustom vehicles, lowbrow art and more, with more than 900 vehicles lining the streets of Coolangatta.