There’s always something going on in New York. Always. Concerts in New York, Broadway musicals and shows, the famous New York opera, sporting events, exhibitions in museums and galleries.

Events for every taste: parades, fashion shows, flower shows, car shows, national celebrations of specific cultures (from Chinese New Year to Greek parades), film festivals, assemblies, new movie shoots, and so on. Visiting one or more of these events will diversify your trip and provide a vivid range of emotions. If you are deciding when is the best time to go, check out this section for a list of events for each month in New York: theater and opera, concerts, basketball, hockey, tennis, etc.

In January, it’s the traditional Restaurant Week, or Restaurant Week, the Boat and Yacht Show, and the Winter Jazz Festival. Chinese New Year is widely celebrated in New York, in late January or February (depending on the year and Chinese calendar). There are several parades in the spring, including the Easter parade. In spring, the cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens are not to be missed, nor is Fleet Week at the end of May.

The highlights of summer are the Metropolitan Opera’s free concerts in the parks, the Museum Mile Festival, Fourth of July fireworks, Summer Restaurant Week, and the US Open tournament. In the fall, New York City hosts Fashion Week, the Halloween parade, and the Thanksgiving Day parade, which ends with Santa Claus entering town in triumph. December is a pleasant pre-holiday rush, a parade of storefronts in New York City department stores, Christmas, and, of course, welcoming New Year’s Eve in Times Square.

There are also many professional trade shows and conferences in New York City.