{"id":2361421,"date":"2026-04-06T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2361421"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:04:48","slug":"the-best-things-to-do-in-philly-in-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-best-things-to-do-in-philly-in-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Things to Do in Philly in May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May is when both locals and visitors can\u2019t wait to get outside \u2014 and when festival season ramps up.<\/p>\n

The outdoor calendar is filled with music fairs like the Sing Us Home Festival<\/b> and The<\/b> Roots Picnic<\/b>, foodie gatherings like the South 9th Street Italian Market Festival,<\/b> and one of the nation\u2019s first Pride events, New Hope Celebrates PrideFest<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Joining them are a plethora of neighborhood street festivals across the region, including the Girard Avenue Street Fest<\/b>, Maifest<\/b> on South Street and the Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival.<\/b><\/p>\n

The May merriment doesn\u2019t stop there, with more annual events including Fan Expo<\/b> at the Pennsylvania Convention Center\u00a0and the 40,000 athlete-strong Independence Blue Cross Broad Street Run.<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Philly\u2019s biggest year yet! Make the most of it by booking the Visit Philly Overnight Package<\/a>, which comes with free hotel parking and <\/b>complimentary tickets to some of the most popular attractions in each of Greater Philadelphia\u2019s five counties including Universal Theme Parks: The Exhibition<\/i> at The Franklin Institute, the Mercer Museum in Bucks County, Longwood Gardens in Chester County, the Brandywine Museum of Art in Delaware County and Elmwood Park Zoo in Montgomery County.<\/div>\n

Check out our guide to the biggest events and most awesome things to do in Greater Philadelphia in May 2026.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNote:<\/b> This article is arranged chronologically by section. \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.visitphilly.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May is when both locals and visitors can\u2019t wait to get outside \u2014 and when festival season ramps up. The outdoor calendar is filled with music fairs like the Sing Us Home Festival and The Roots Picnic, foodie gatherings like the South 9th Street Italian Market Festival, and one of the nation\u2019s first Pride events, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2361422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Best-Things-to-Do-in-Philly-in-May-2026.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361423,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361421\/revisions\/2361423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}