Toronto Waterfront Festival

Date(s): June 28 to 29, 2025
Location: Toronto Waterfront (Sugar Beach)

Toronto’s waterfront has been a gathering place where people have walked, traded and celebrated for thousands of years. The Toronto Waterfront Festival (formerly the Redpath Waterfront Festival) offers an annual chance to experience Toronto’s expansive waterfront from past to present in a whole new way. 

Festival Overview

The Toronto Waterfront Festival celebrates summer by featuring unique on-land and on-water programs for people of all ages and interests with the goal of promoting Toronto locally and internationally as a premiere waterfront destination. 

Activities that have been included are the World's Largest Rubber Duck, Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Armed Forces, Canine Watersports Competitions and more.

Every three years, the Toronto Waterfront Festival welcomes a fleet of majestic tall ships to Toronto. Go onboard each ship, meet their crews and learn about their nautical history. You can even take one out for a sail.

With music, food, nautical programs, entertainment, and Indigenous programs, the festival has something for everyone to enjoy.

Toronto Waterfront Festival Highlights 

Things to do at the Toronto Waterfront Festival include:

• Live entertainment 
• Delicious local food vendors 
• Water-themed programs on-land and on-water 
• Opportunities to meet members of the Royal Canadian Nay and Canadian Armed Forces
• Local food trucks
• Performance art
• Business discounts
• Art installations

Admissions and Tickets

The Festival is open to the public and free for everyone to attend. However tickets are required to access the Tall Ships for Deck Tours and for Sail Aways.