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Greek island festivals in April 2027

4 festivals on 3 islands, day by day. Movable feasts are computed for 2027.

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16 April · Friday

Schoinoussa Panigiri

Panigiri of Panagia Akathi (Saturday of the Akathist), Chora

16–17 April

Panagia Akathi in Chora is the island's church, and its panigiri falls not in summer but on the Saturday of the Akathist in Great Lent, when the icon is carried through Chora. It is the one night of the year the whole of Schinoussa, plus visitors from Iraklia and Koufonisi, sits down together: patatato and other local dishes served free after the liturgy, wine, and violin-and-laouto dancing until late. Book a room well ahead; the island has few.

25 April · Sunday

Corfu Religious

Palm Sunday litany of Agios Spyridon, Corfu town

25 April

The longest of the litanies, commemorating the 1630 plague, takes the saint's body right around the old town on Palm Sunday morning with all eighteen or so philharmonic bands of the island playing; it is the start of Corfu's famous Easter week, which continues with the Holy Saturday litany and the pot-throwing. Come at 11am and stand near the Spianada to hear the bands cross.

26 April · Monday

Patmos Religious

Easter (Holy Week)

26 April

Patmos's Easter is among the most spectacular in Greece — the monastery hosts the niptiras ceremony on Holy Thursday, with the abbot ritually washing 12 monks' feet. Pilgrims from across the Orthodox world.

29 April · Thursday

Patmos Religious

Niptiras (Holy Thursday foot-washing)

29 April

Open-air ceremony in Chora's main square: the abbot of the Monastery of Saint John ritually washes the feet of 12 monks, reenacting Christ washing the disciples' feet. One of the few places in the Orthodox world where the rite is still performed publicly.

Dates are resolved for 2027: fixed saint's days as they fall, movable feasts computed from Orthodox Easter (2027: 2 May). Panigiria are usually held on the eve of the saint's day, and a village occasionally shifts one to the nearest weekend — where an entry says "confirm locally", the date comes from recent years' announcements rather than an official calendar. If you know better, the feedback button exists for exactly this.