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Every event worth knowing about in Chania. Checked by locals from Chania, for everyone.
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Thursday Street Market — Nea Chora Laïkí
Thursday's laïkí on the old AVEA plot in seaside Nea Chora, entrances on Akti Kanari and Gerasimou Pardali. 7am–2pm.
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Saturday Street Market — Minoos Street Laïkí
Chania's biggest weekly farmers' market, along the old western wall. Fruit, cheese, honey, olives, from 7am.
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Monday Street Market — Párko Markopoúlou Laïkí
Monday's neighbourhood laïkí at the old Markopoulou camp, entrance off Malinou Street. 7am–2pm.
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Tuesday Street Market — Mournies & Nerokouros Laïkí
Tuesday's laïkí along Kolokotroni Street in Nerokouros, just south of the city. Local and unhurried, 7am–2pm.
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Wednesday Street Market — Pachiana Laïkí
Wednesday's laïkí on the old VIOCHYM factory grounds in Pachiana, off Therisou Street. 7am–2pm.
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Mikis Theodorakis — The Archive Exhibition at his Family Home
Rare papers from the Theodorakis archive, in the composer's own childhood house. Tuesday mornings, free.
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Alexandros Psychoulis — I Was Only Endangered by Uncontrolled Thoughts
Forty years of one of Greece's sharpest artists, 150+ works. Free every Tuesday, otherwise €5.
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Sculpt & Sea — Morning Beach Pilates at Cabana Mare
A 60-minute pilates class on the sand at Agia Marina, every morning before the beach fills up.
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Traditional Cretan Crafts — Photography Exhibition
Twenty vanishing Cretan trades, photographed, with QR codes to the craftspeople telling it themselves. Free.
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50 Years of the Chania Cultural Centre
Two exhibitions marking the Cultural Centre's first fifty years. Closes 30 September, free.
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Alekos Fasianos and Karolos Kampelopoulos — A Meeting in Paris
Two Greek artists who met in 1960s Paris, shown together for the first time. Closes 29 September.
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Vamos Sunday Open Market
A Sunday producers' and artisans' market on the village square at Vamos, in the heart of Apokoronas.
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War Zone — Twenty-five Years After 9/11
John Antono on a quarter century of the war on terror. Free, daily, in the Old Customs House.
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A Letter from Gaza
Ghassan Kanafani's story drawn by Lefteris Papathanasis. Free, daily, in the Old Customs House.
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Fouska — A New Greek Comics Magazine
A brand new comics magazine, crowdfunded into existence, issue zero on the wall. Free, daily.
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The Smell After the Rain
A French graphic novel about a man and his dog, newly in Greek. Free, daily.
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The First Broadcast — A History of Greek Television
Spyros Derveniotis on the story of Greek television, as a forthcoming comic. Free, daily.
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Junji Ito — Shivers, Selected by the Artist
Nine horror stories chosen by Junji Ito himself, from the Greek edition Rigos. Free, open daily.
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Camille the Troublemaker
A children's comic about a girl who says exactly what she thinks. Free, daily, good with kids.
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Koulouri — Tomek Giovanis
Tomek Giovanis’s surreal underground Greek comic, the one everyone argues about. Free, daily.
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Mafalda, My Heroine
A tribute to Quino's Mafalda, the six-year-old who has been arguing with the world since 1964.
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Marco Rota — Disney's Living Master
One of the great living Disney artists, exhibited and in person from 25 to 27 September. Free.
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Pinocchio
A Pinocchio exhibition, one of fifteen at Chaniartoon, tagged for children. Free, open daily.
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SPALTS!
Ntilios and Pagonis's weekly strip, drawn 2014 to 2016, collected. Free, daily.
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Spyros Ornerakis — Six Decades of Cartooning
One of Greece's great cartoonists, still drawing. A retrospective, free and open daily.
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Advice to a Young Pirate
How to become a feared pirate, for children, in a Venetian harbour. Free, daily.
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The Eyes of the Cat — Jodorowsky and Moebius
The legendary Jodorowsky and Moebius collaboration, newly translated into Greek. Free, daily.
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The Traditional Strata — Weekly Tuesday Procession Through the Old Port
Every Tuesday evening a different Cretan folk group parades the Venetian Harbour in costume, free to watch, all summer.
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1st Chania Sculpture Symposium
Leading Greek sculptors carve in the open at the Park of Peace and Friendship, in public view, until 14 October.
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Live Music Every Night at Adespoto
A bouzouki and guitar duo plays laika and rebetika every evening from 19:30, in a Venetian courtyard off Sifaka street.
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Live Music with Stavros Labropoulos
A standing Thursday-evening live set on the sand at Almira in Agia Marina, free to walk in for.
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Volunteers' Bazaar for Orizontas
Handmade pieces, books and jewellery sold for the cancer support association Orizontas. Tsouderon 38A, until 3 October.
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Passe-partout — Where the Stone Sings: From Rizitiko to Minore
Nine women's voices and a four-piece band trace Greek song from Cretan rizitiko to rebetiko, at San Francesco. 21:00 sharp, free.
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Soap Making Workshop for Adults
Make glycerine soap from mould to packaging in one 2.5 hour evening. Four Monday sessions in October, €10.
September 2026
Through
21–14
Sept–Oct
1st Chania Sculpture Symposium — Opening Ceremony
Seven sculptors carve in public for a month at the Park of Peace and Friendship, opening night 21 Sept, free to watch throughout.
Through
23–30
Sept
European Week of Sport — All Crete Blue Green
Eight days of free open sessions on movement and wellbeing, with the Chania talks on 24 and 25 Sep.
Mon
28
Sept
World Tourism Day 2026 — Sounds of Crete and the Traditional Strata Finale
The Traditional Strata season ends on the Agios Nikolaos bastion at the harbour: Cretan music and every folk association. Monday 19:30.
Tue
29
Sept
In the Sweet Waters of Wine — Limni Inachoriou
A wine tasting beside the water at Limni, with electric violin and a photography show in the old school.
October 2026
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2–4
Oct
3rd Chania Children's Festival
Three days of theatre, music, dance and workshops for kids across the Cultural Center and the Municipal Garden, 2-4 October.
Sat
3
Oct
Little Printers — A Stamp-Printing Workshop for Kids
Free two-hour printing workshop for ages 6 to 12 at the Russian Barracks, Saturday 11:00. Book by phone from 28 September.
Sun
4
Oct
Mickey's Gang and the Song of Joy — Children's Show at Mega Place
A touring kids' musical with Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy in mascot costume, Sunday 4 October at 17:30. Ages 2 and up.
Sat
10
Oct
Ta Omonyma Elkontai — A Different Kind of Talk About Relationships
Nikolas Smyrnakis performs a 90 minute talk-play about relationships, then takes questions. In Greek.
Sun
11
Oct
9th Paleochora Half Marathon
Half marathon, 10k, 5k and a free children's race, all starting and finishing in Paleochora. Eight in the morning, before the heat.
Sun
11
Oct
17th Yperkopeli — Charity Triathlon at Agioi Apostoloi
An amateur triathlon with no winners and no clock, run for the Orizontas cancer charity. Kids race first, pilafi party after.
Sun
11
Oct
Anoichtoi Orizontes — 5km Charity Run and Walk
A 5km run or brisk walk at Agioi Apostoloi with no timing and no ranking. €5, and you choose which charity gets it.
Through
22–7
Oct–Nov
Sediments — Stefania Orfanidou and Georges Salameh
Two long-running archive projects meet in the old Archaeological Museum: memory, loss and the Mediterranean.
Through
23–25
Oct
Chestnut Festival — Vlatos, Limni and Elos
Three days of roast chestnuts, Cretan music and village hospitality across Elos, Limni and Vlatos. Free entry.
Through
24–28
Oct
Chania Trails — Kantanos-Selino
A five-day guided hiking trip through Kantanos-Selino's gorges, ancient sites and villages, run by Trace Your Eco with the Region of Crete.
Through
24–25
Oct
Sfakia Sky Marathon 2026
Sea to summit: 44km and 3,050m of climbing from Loutro to Pachnes and back down to Anopoli, plus two shorter races.
Sat
24
Oct
Wang — Tenacity Tour
Greek rapper Wang brings the Tenacity album to Bras de Frères, the old town's live room. Doors 18:00, from €15.
Sat
24
Oct
Buzz Capitano Tour
DJ Marvel, Buzz, Andriko and Dolos play the Buzz Capitano tour date at Youth Of Dope, the hostel-turned-party-venue near the airport.
