From Vienna’s ball calendar to Easter markets across Austria, March 2026 has plenty to book early and plenty you can drop into last minute
Wiener HipHop Ball – Vienna
This is a proper Viennese ball night, but with the music and movement pulled into the present. The idea is to keep the classic setting and dress code, then layer in hip hop culture, DJing, MCing, performance art, and a programme that treats the waltz and the beat as equals rather than opposites.
The 2026 edition runs under the motto “United in Diversity” and promises an “urban waltz” mix, with a formal opening and late-night performances. It is pitched as an inclusive ball concept, including a gender-inclusive dress code and the option of wearing sneakers with classic eveningwear.
Dates: March 14th, 2026
Time: 7 pm reception, 9 pm opening ceremony, 12 am midnight interlude, 2 am closing dance
Location: Palais Niederösterreich, Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna
Price: Advance ticket €75, standard ticket €89, student ticket €65
Website: ganz-wien.at
Easter and Spring Market at Schönbrunn Palace – Vienna
Schönbrunn’s market stretches beyond the Easter weekend in 2026 and shifts into a longer spring-market run. It’s an event that works both as a quick after-work wander and as a weekend plan with visiting friends or family.
The organisers describe it as “spring magic” with an Easter-market feel early on, then a gentler transition into a spring market afterwards. Entry is free, which makes it an easy one to dip in and out of.
Dates: March 25th to April 19th, 2026
Time: Daily, 10 am to 7 pm
Location: Schönbrunn Palace
Price: Free admission
Website: schoenbrunn.at
KULINAR TULLN – Lower Austria
If you like your food festivals busy, consumer-fair style, and heavy on tastings, KULINAR TULLN is built for that. The organisers frame it as a big “genuss” highlight, with a large exhibitor line-up spanning food and drink trends, street food, and plenty of reasons to linger rather than rush.
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The 2026 fair listing highlights 185 exhibitors and positions it as both a shopping and experience event, with an added focus on kitchens and kitchen interiors alongside the edible part of the programme.
Dates: March 19th to 22nd, 2026
Time: Thursday 10 am to 6 pm, Friday and Saturday 10 am to 7 pm, Sunday 10 am to 5 pm
Website: messe-tulln.at
Ostermarkt at Schloss Hof – Lower Austria
Schloss Hof’s Easter market is a big, scenic spring outing, staged across multiple weekends in the baroque courtyard and gardens. It is designed to be more than stalls, with a full programme that leans hard into families, crafts, and small performances, plus the excuse of a proper garden wander when March starts to soften.
Alongside the market, the listing includes a craft workshop with an Easter bunny theme, a daily “trail of the Easter bunny”, pony rides, pottery activities, live music slots, and special Kasperl theatre performances in early April that require an online ticket.
Dates: March 7th to April 6th, 2026 (Saturday, Sunday and public holidays)
Time: 10 am to 6 pm
Location: Schloss Hof
Price: Adults €12, children (6–18) €6, family ticket €30
Website: schlosshof.at
quartetto plus at Esterházy Palace – Burgenland
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quartetto plus is a concentrated chamber-music stretch inside the broader classic.Esterhazy season, built around string quartet programming with guest musicians. If you like the feel of a “festival within a season” rather than a one-off concert, this is that, with multiple dates close together.
The 2026 listings place the quartetto plus run across March 20th to 22nd in Eisenstadt, with different ensembles across the weekend and tickets offered for each event.
Dates: March 20th to 22nd, 2026
Location: Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt
Website: esterhazy.at
Ostermarkt “Frühlingserwachen” im Kremayrhaus – Burgenland
Rust’s Kremayrhaus Easter market runs daily across late March into early April, which is rare for smaller-town seasonal markets that often stick to weekends. The organisers promise spring decorations, Easter eggs from various European countries, gifts, and handicrafts, with consistent opening hours that make it easy to build into a day trip.
Because it is hosted at the Kremayrhaus City Museum, it has a contained, indoor-friendly feel compared with the bigger palace markets, which can matter if March decides to behave like winter again.
Dates: March 20th to April 4th, 2026
Time: Daily, 10 am to 4 pm
Location: Kremayrhaus City Museum, Conradplatz 2, 7071 Rust
Website: burgenland.info
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Innviertler Biermärz (Innviertel) – Upper Austria
Innviertler Biermärz is structured as a full-month programme, framed as “31 days of beer, cuisine, art, and culture” across the Innviertel beer region.
The organisers root it in an older brewing tradition, then use that history as a reason to stage tastings, brewery tours, culinary pairings, and other events all month long.
The official opening is on March 1st at Braugasthof Wurmhöringer in Altheim.
Dates: March 2026 (opening on March 1st)
Location: Innviertel beer region (opening in Altheim)
Website: bierregion.at
Ostermarkt on Schloss Katzenberg – Upper Austria
Schloss Katzenberg’s Easter market leans into the atmosphere of a historic castle, with an emphasis on crafts, food, and family activities. The organisers describe it as “spring magic” with more than a hundred exhibitors selling handmade products, from Easter eggs and decorations to ceramics, jewellery and fashion.
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It is also set up as a multi-generation outing, with children’s hands-on stations, an Easter bunny, an egg hunt, bouncy castle and carousel, plus optional castle tours with limited places.
Dates: March 27th to 29th, 2026
Time: Friday 12 pm to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 10 am to 6 pm
Location: Schloss Katzenberg
Price: Adults €6, reduced €4, children up to 14 free, optional castle tour €5
Website: schloss-katzenberg.at
Reif für die Insel – Styria
A high-altitude open-air party weekend that is basically built for that first-weekend-in-March feeling: longer days, sunnier slopes, and the urge to stop pretending you are only here to ski. The event takes place at the Genussinsel on the Senderplateau at 1,800 metres, with DJs, drinks, and a big panoramic backdrop.
Admission is free and frames it as a recurring highlight for winter sports and music fans, with a stage show planned for 2026 including fire and pyro effects.
Dates: March 6th to 8th, 2026
Location: Genussinsel, Senderplateau (Kaiblinggrat mountain station), Hauser Kaibling
Price: Free admission
Website: hauser-kaibling.at
Lange Nacht der Kulinarik – Styria
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This one is designed as a “taste route” across multiple venues, with one ticket giving access to dozens of producers and hosts for an evening of tastings and small programme elements. It is framed as a spring kick-off for the Thermen and Vulkanland region’s gutfinden.vulkanland businesses, with the emphasis on craftsmanship and meeting the people behind the food and drink.
Almost 30 establishments take part from 6 pm to midnight and tickets are listed at €24, with children under 12 free.
Dates: March 21st, 2026
Time: 6 pm to midnight
Location: Feldbach and participating businesses in the Thermen and Vulkanland region
Price: €24, children under 12 free
Website: steiermark.com
Nachtfahrt zum Vollmond – Carinthia
A winter full-moon night ride on the Brunnach Biosphere Park Railway, with a staged evening programme around the mountain station. This promises a curated winter evening: torchlight hike, fire show, and timed cable car rides up and down.
The ticket includes ascent and descent, one hot drink, one torch for the torchlight hike, and the fire show. Day and season ski passes are not valid, and sleds, skis and snowboards are not permitted.
Dates: March 3rd, 2026
Time: Ascents and descents 7 pm to 9:30 pm, torchlight hike 7:30 pm, fire show 8:30 pm, last descent 9:15 pm
Location: Brunnach Biosphere Park Railway, Bad Kleinkirchheim
Price: Adults €34, children (6–14) €22.50, under 6 free
Website: badkleinkirchheim.com
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Ostermarkt 2026 – Carinthia
Villach’s Easter market is pitched as a city-centre spring programme with a strong family focus. The stalls and food are one part, but the organisation puts particular weight on the “children’s paradise” area on Unterer Kirchenplatz, designed to keep kids busy while adults browse.
The programme includes pony rides, a carousel, slide, and kids’ bungee jumping, alongside the market’s crafts, decorations, and regional treats.
Dates: March 26th to April 4th, 2026
Time: Daily 10 am to 6 pm (April 4th 10 am to 2 pm)
Location: Rathausplatz, Oberer Kirchenplatz and Unterer Kirchenplatz, Villach
Website: villach.at
Snow Jazz Gastein 2026 – Salzburg
A multi-day jazz festival spread across the Gastein Valley, with a day-by-day schedule and several venues. The 2026 theme is “La Dolce Vita”, with the programme explicitly drawing on Italian sounds and an “Italianità” mood, at least musically.
The event includes evening concerts, daytime sets, and a mix of formats, from small ensemble shows to duos, across Bad Hofgastein and Bad Gastein.
Dates: March 11th to 15th, 2026
Website: gastein.com
Osterzeit auf Gut Aiderbichl – Salzburg
Gut Aiderbichl’s Henndorf site runs an extended Easter-season programme that is explicitly structured as a family visit, with daily opening and a list of specific highlights on certain dates. The event focuses on Easter decoration, gift ideas, and the general “spring on the farm” feel, alongside scheduled activities.
The highlights include palm-branch binding, crafting Easter decorations, Easter stories, a blessing of the food, and an Easter egg hunt.
There are also daily animal activities like an animal walk, cat cuddling times, and a pony grooming station, plus a junior animal keeper programme on multiple weekdays and weekend days, with reservation required.
Dates: March 21st to April 6th, 2026
Time: Daily 9 am to 6 pm
Location: Gut Aiderbichl Henndorf
Website: gut-aiderbichl.com
Diamond Beats – Tyrol
Diamond Beats is a ski-slope event with deliberately “elegant” framing: orchestral soundscapes meeting DJ sets, plus alpine cuisine. It’s the Alps becoming a stage for “sound, taste and emotion”, with the event running over three days.
Dates: March 11th to 13th, 2026
Time: Wednesday to Friday at 11:30 am
Location: Gurglerstraße 118, 6456 Obergurgl
Website: oetztal.com
Easter in Kitzbühel – Tyrol
Kitzbühel’s Easter programme runs across late March into April and combines markets, workshops, and local customs. It’s a mix of city traditions and spring skiing, with activities aimed at families as well as people who want the cultural side of the holiday.
Programme highlights include things like palm bouquet binding, Easter egg dyeing, Easter candle making, baking Easter pastries, guided themed hikes, and a kids’ programme that ranges from craft workshops to a puppet show with Kasperl.
Dates: March 27th to April 12th, 2026
Location: Kitzbühel (including Easter markets in Kitzbühel, Aurach and Jochberg)
Website: kitzbuehel.com
Bregenzer Frühling – Vorarlberg
Bregenzer Frühling is a dance and performance festival series hosted at the Festspielhaus, with the 2026 season beginning in March. There are multiple events across the month, including performances by Compagnie Marie Chouinard and Hofesh Shechter Company.
If you are the kind of person who likes booking one strong cultural night and making a mini trip out of it, this is a good anchor, because the festival gives you other dates nearby if you want more than one show.
Dates: March 14th, 2026 (4 pm), March 15th, 2026 (7 am), March 28th, 2026 (4 pm)
Website: bregenzerfruehling.com
Marktzeit in Dornbirn: Ostermarkt – Vorarlberg
Dornbirn’s Ostermarkt is part of the town’s “Marktzeit” calendar, with a single date and a morning window, which suggests a compact, local market rather than an all-day event.
Dates: March 28th, 2026
Location: Pfarrpark, Dornbirn
Website: dornbirn.info
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