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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

February 2027

about 19 to 21 Feb 2027Serra da Estrela cheese fair in Celorico da BeiraIn February, Celorico da Beira opens Portugal's season of mountain cheese fairs with its Serra da Estrela market.

March 2027

about 26 Mar 2027Alkmaar cheese market season opensThe first Friday of the Alkmaar cheese market, where guild porters carry wheels of Gouda on barrows to the weigh house.

April 2027

about 1 Apr 2027Gouda cheese market season opensThursday mornings in Gouda, from April to August, when farmers' cheese is traded in front of the 1668 weigh house.

July 2027

about 7 Jul 2027Edam cheese market season opensSummer Wednesdays in Edam, when the round cheeses are brought by boat and cart to the old cheese weigh house.

Photo credits on this page

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

Alkmaar Cheese Market Opens: Alf van Beem, CC0, source
Gouda Cheese Market Opens: ben.fitzgerald on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, source
Celorico Serra Da Estrela Fair: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY 2.5, 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.