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The cheese calendar

64 markets, fairs, feasts and fasts of the year, with the cheeses each one calls for. Dates are worked out afresh every day; those marked "about" follow the moon or local calendars and can shift by a day.

Kind of dayAll Festivals and fairs Pasture and transhumance Religious days Seasonal Markets National and cheese days Races and contests

November 2026

12 Nov 2026World Cheese AwardsThe annual world cheese competition, judged in a single day; in 2026 it is held in Córdoba in southern Spain.

March 2027

9 to 11 Mar 2027U.S. Championship Cheese ContestAmerica's biggest cheese competition, held in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in odd-numbered years.

August 2027

29 Aug 2027Certamen del Queso de CabralesOn the last Sunday of August in Arenas de Cabrales, the best cave-ripened blue of the year is judged and auctioned.

September 2027

about 8 Sept 2027Idiazabal cheese contest in OrdiziaOn the Wednesday of Ordizia's Basque Festival, shepherds' raw-milk Idiazabal is judged and the winner auctioned.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Cabrales Cheese Contest: Mick Stephenson mixpix, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Ordizia Idiazabal Contest: Euskalduna, CC BY 3.0, source
World Cheese Awards: Donald Trung Quoc Don (Chữ Hán: 徵國單) - Wikimedia Commons - © CC BY-SA, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Us Championship Cheese Contest: Boston Public Library, Public domain, source

The weekly digest

Every Monday: seven cheeses you may not know, the cheese days of the week ahead, and one dish explained step by step.