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Discover the best events, restaurants, and things to do in Hamilton. Updated daily.
Hamilton's event scene sits at the intersection of a working waterfront city and a growing arts hub. Our feed pulls from the City of Hamilton's official Drupal-powered calendar, which covers everything from Bayfront Park summer concerts to Supercrawl on James Street North to Christmas at the Rockton World's Fair. We also include Ontario Parks events at Dundas Valley and other nearby conservation areas. Because Hamilton is dense with independent venues (the Casbah, Bridgeworks, Mills Hardware, the Cotton Factory), Ticketmaster's Hamilton listings are folded in for concert coverage — but the free civic events, farmers markets at Hamilton Farmers' Market on York, and community programming are the heart of this page. If you're new to Hamilton, start with the James Street North art crawl (second Friday of every month) — it's consistently in the feed.
NearbyToday pulls events directly from 60+ official public sources — municipal event calendars, tourism board feeds, public library event systems, university public-events feeds, Ontario Parks, and Ticketmaster for concerts and sports. Each source is fetched at its origin, de-duplicated, and cached with a stale-on-failure fallback. Read the full methodology on the About page →