Oct12026
Taiwan International Bird Watching Marathon
A season-long birdwatching marathon on the southwest coast, timed to the arrival of black-faced spoonbills and other winter migrants.
24 events start this month
What's on in Taiwan in October 2026.
Festivals, illuminations and seasonal events starting in October 2026, checked against official sources.
Oct32026
Daito Manabe: RELATIONAL TIME: Life Beyond Simulation
Japanese media artist Daito Manabe's first major overseas solo exhibition, with new immersive works created for the Taichung Art Museum's double-height galleries.
Oct32026
Michael Craig-Martin: The Language of the Everyday
The British artist's first major solo exhibition in Asia brings more than seventy works on everyday objects to the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
Oct32026
When Tomorrow is Forgotten
A Taiwan and Korea group exhibition on life in super-aged societies, looking at caregiving networks and collective memory.
Oct82026
Crossing the Himalayas: An Artistic Odyssey
A National Palace Museum Southern Branch exhibition tracing the art that crossed the Himalaya region over centuries of exchange.
Oct82026
National Palace Museum Asian Art Festival: Himalayan Moon
The Southern Branch's annual Asian Art Festival takes a Himalayan theme for 2026, with a month of programmes around the special exhibition.
Oct82026
Reviving Cultural Treasures: Conservation and Restoration at the National Palace Museum
An exhibition on how the National Palace Museum conserves and restores its treasures, running to 3 January 2027.
Oct92026
A Keen Eye: Aesthetic Principles and the Appreciation of Painting
A National Palace Museum exhibition on how to look at Chinese painting, running to 27 December 2026.
Oct92026
Spotlight on National Treasures 2026-III
The third 2026 rotation of the National Palace Museum's national treasures display, running to 27 December 2026.
Oct132026
Ripples and Rhymes: Fu Yi-yao and Taiwan-Japan Art Exchanges
A National Museum of History exhibition on art exchanges between Taiwan and Japan, running to 22 November 2026.
Oct152026
Winter Love Lanyang Hot Spring Season 2026-27
Yilan County's autumn and winter hot spring season in Jiaoxi, running from mid October 2026 to the end of February 2027.
Oct172026
Beyond the Canvas: Li Mei-shu, Yang San-lang, Li Shih-chiao
Paintings and rare documents by Li Mei-shu, Yang San-lang and Li Shih-chiao, three pioneers of modern art in Taiwan with deep roots in New Taipei.
Oct172026
Hualien Pacific Hot Spring Festival 2026
Hualien County's hot spring festival linking the Ruisui and Antong spring areas for a month of autumn weekends.
Oct172026
Lim Kac-keong: Cosmos in View
A solo exhibition devoted to Lim Kac-keong (Lin Ke-gong), presented as the companion show to Beyond the Canvas at the New Taipei City Art Museum.
Oct242026
Taichung Shopping Festival 2026
Taichung's citywide shopping festival runs from late October to Christmas Day 2026, with receipt lotteries and merchant promotions across the city.
Oct312026
Biennial Butterfly Beauty Festival
A winter season festival around the purple crow butterflies that overwinter in the valleys of Maolin National Scenic Area.
Oct312026
Caoling Historic Trail Silver Grass Season 2026
The silver grass season on the Caoling Historic Trail, with weekend shuttles, markets and period costume experiences.
Oct312026
Fuli Autumn Harvest Music Festival 2026
Fuli Township's autumn harvest music festival, two days of concerts and a farmers market under Sixty Stone Mountain.
Oct312026
Hualien International Stone Sculpture Festival 2026
Hualien's stone sculpture festival, with an open air creation camp at NilaI Plaza and exhibitions running into January.
Oct312026
Ryuichi Sakamoto | seeing sound, hearing time
A major survey of the late composer and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto's installation practice from the 2000s onward, built around seven large-scale installations.
Oct312026
Taichung International Flower Carpet Festival 2026
Vast patterned flower carpets bloom across the Xinshe plateau for Taichung's annual flower carpet festival.
Oct312026
Taiwan Coffee Festival 2026
Taiwan's national coffee festival returns to Gukeng in Yunlin, gathering coffee farmers, roasters and brands from across Taiwan.
Oct312026
Taiwan PASIWALI Festival 2026
Taiwan's flagship Indigenous music festival takes over Taitung Forest Park for a weekend.
Oct312026
Vaundy ASIA ARENA TOUR 2026 "HORO"
Japanese singer-songwriter Vaundy plays two nights at Taipei Arena, 31 October and 1 November 2026, on his ASIA ARENA TOUR 2026 "HORO".