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Stardew Valley Calendar and Festivals
Season calendar guide for birthdays, festivals, limited events, bookseller windows, and friendship planning.
Quick facts
Each Stardew Valley season has 28 days, with birthdays and festivals placed on fixed calendar dates.
The Calendar shows birthdays and festivals for the current season, and 1.6 added new seasonal events such as Desert Festival, Trout Derby, and SquidFest.
Festival days can interrupt shop access, routes, and normal schedules, so plan gifts and errands before attending.
Why the calendar matters
The calendar is the quiet backbone of an efficient Stardew year. Birthdays multiply gift value, festivals can lock normal town routes, and short seasonal windows can decide whether a bundle waits another year.
- Check upcoming birthdays before selling gems, crops, cooked food, or artisan goods.
- Do shop errands the day before a festival if the route may be blocked.
- Group fishing, gifting, and crop deadlines by week instead of reacting day by day.
Festival planning
Festivals are not just flavor. Some unlock social opportunities, shops, mini-games, rare items, and route-specific rewards.
- Spring routes revolve around Egg Festival, Desert Festival, and Flower Dance.
- Summer adds Luau, Trout Derby, and Dance of the Moonlight Jellies.
- Fall and Winter include Fair, Spirit's Eve, Festival of Ice, SquidFest, Night Market, and Feast of the Winter Star.