Looking for events and things to do in Redmond? Home to Microsoft on Seattle’s Eastside, Redmond offers a family-friendly calendar of festivals, markets, and outdoor events. This local guide covers Redmond’s biggest annual festivals, recurring markets and events, seasonal highlights, and how to find out what’s happening this weekend — straight from the people who live here.

Redmond’s biggest annual events & festivals

Redmond’s signature events include Redmond Lights (a winter celebration), Derby Days (one of the Eastside’s longest-running community festivals with a nod to Redmond’s cycling heritage), the Redmond Arts Festival, and concerts and events at Marymoor Park, a major regional venue.

Farmers markets & recurring things to do in Redmond

The Redmond Saturday Market runs in the warmer months, and Marymoor Park hosts a marquee summer concert series, festivals, and outdoor recreation, plus regular events downtown and along the Sammamish River Trail.

Redmond through the seasons

Summer is peak — Derby Days, the Marymoor concert series, farmers markets, and outdoor events; fall brings harvest and community festivals; and winter lights up with Redmond Lights and holiday celebrations.

What to know about Redmond events

Marymoor Park is the region’s big event venue; downtown Redmond is increasingly walkable, with light rail arriving on the Eastside. Redmond is bike-friendly, fitting its cycling heritage. Many events are free.

What’s happening in Redmond this weekend

Printed event calendars go stale fast, and the best local happenings — pop-ups, block parties, last-minute shows — often never make the official listings. The most current, honest answer to “what’s going on this weekend?” comes from neighbors. On Neighborhood Nurturers’ Redmond community, real Redmond residents post and discuss what’s happening right now. For more ideas any time, see our guide to the best things to do in Redmond. Join your Redmond neighbors free and never miss what’s happening →

The Redmond angle

The best events here are seasonal and neighborhood-driven, so timing is everything. Half the fun of the local calendar in Redmond is stringing it together with the places nearby. Marymoor Park is the landmark most people orient around, but neighbors will tell you the Sammamish River Trail and Idylwood Beach are where the town really shows its character, with the Redmond Central Connector trail worth a look if you have the time. Use those as your reference points and this guide slots neatly into a day that feels like Redmond, not a checklist.

Keep exploring Redmond

If this was useful, these companion guides cover Redmond from angles that pair naturally with it: Things to do in Redmond, Free things to do in Redmond, Things to do with kids in Redmond. Together they add up to a full weekend without leaving town.

Ask a Redmond neighbor

The best tips never make the guidebooks — they come from neighbors who know which spot is worth it this week. That is what the Redmond community on Neighborhood Nurturers is for. Ask Redmond locals what they would do, or join free and get honest answers from people who actually know Redmond.

Redmond’s event calendar is genuinely seasonal

The single most useful frame for this city: almost everything worth attending in Redmond happens between May and October, outdoors. From November through April the calendar thins dramatically, because this is the Pacific Northwest and the venues that matter here are open ground.

That is not a criticism, but it does mean an event page that lists things evenly across twelve months would be misleading. Plan around the season.

Marymoor Live and the outdoor movie nights

The centrepiece. Marymoor Park — 640 acres at 6046 West Lake Sammamish Parkway NE — becomes the Eastside’s outdoor venue each summer, with the Marymoor Live concert series and outdoor movie nights.

This is the reason people from across the region come to Redmond. Long Pacific Northwest summer evenings, where the light holds late, are genuinely well suited to it.

Two practical points. Concerts sell out, so book rather than assume. And an event day changes the whole park — parking, crowds, atmosphere — so if you were planning a quiet walk with a dog, check the calendar first.

The bike race and parade

Redmond calls itself the “Bicycle Capital of the Northwest”, and it backs that up with an annual bicycle race and parade — a civic event rather than a niche sporting one, and free to watch.

The infrastructure behind the identity is real and available year-round: the Sammamish River Trail, the Redmond Bike Park, and the velodrome at Marymoor — a 400-metre banked track and the only one in Washington. Track racing programmes run through the season and watching costs nothing, which makes the velodrome the most reliably interesting recurring event in the city.

The Saturday market season

The Redmond Saturday Market is the closest thing the city has to a weekly event, and it is strictly seasonal: 9am to 2pm, from the second Saturday of May through the last Saturday of October.

⚠️ Two corrections that matter. It is at 9900 Willows Road NE, not at Redmond Town Center, despite how often people search for it there. And signals about its current status conflict, so confirm before travelling. Full detail in the farmers markets guide.

Redmond Town Center programming

Redmond Town Center runs its own seasonal calendar — the kind of programming that appears for a weekend and then does not, which is exactly why a static page is the wrong place to look for it. The centre publishes its own current schedule and that is the authoritative source.

It is open-air, so its programming is weather-exposed in a way an enclosed venue’s is not. Check the forecast alongside the calendar.

Getting to events without the parking problem

Downtown Redmond station opened to passenger service on 10 May 2025, with the full 2 Line opening on 28 March 2026, on the north side of Redmond Town Center.

For events specifically this is the biggest practical change in years. Marymoor parking is the predictable failure point on concert nights and busy summer weekends, and arriving by rail removes it. It also means you can have a drink at an evening event, which previously required someone to volunteer to drive.

Why this page does not list dates

Because it would be wrong within weeks. Concert line-ups, market status, race dates and centre programming all move, and a page confidently listing last season’s dates is worse than no page.

What is durable is the shape of the Redmond year: summer concerts and outdoor films at Marymoor, a seasonal Saturday market on Willows Road, an annual bike race, velodrome racing through the season, and a quiet wet half of the year. For dates, go to the organisers — or to the neighbors who are already going.

The quiet half of the year

Being straight about November through April: the outdoor calendar stops. The market closes, Marymoor Live ends, the outdoor films end, and Redmond Town Center’s open-air programming becomes weather-dependent in a season where the weather is reliably against it.

What continues is indoor and civic: the cinema, library programming, and the ordinary rhythm of a city that works hard and goes home. Velodrome and cycling activity carries further into the shoulder seasons than most outdoor programming does, but it too has a season.

If you are moving here, this is worth internalising rather than discovering. Redmond front-loads its year into summer, and residents plan around that instead of resisting it.

Where to actually find dates

Marymoor Live and Marymoor programming — the park and its concert promoter publish their own calendars.

Redmond Town Center — the centre publishes its seasonal schedule.

The city — civic events, the bike race and parade, and public programming.

The community feed — for the smaller things that never reach an official calendar, which is most of them.

Event days change the city

Worth flagging for residents rather than visitors. When a concert is on at Marymoor, the park stops being a park for the evening — parking fills, access routes get busy, and a quiet walk becomes something else entirely. Locals check the calendar before planning around the park, not after.

The same is true in a smaller way of race days, when the annual bike event closes and reroutes streets. Neither is a problem if you know; both are an irritation if you do not.

And a last practical note: much of what happens in Redmond is free to attend but not free to park at. Arriving by train removes that cost entirely, which is a small thing that adds up across a summer.

Frequently asked questions

What are the biggest events in Redmond, WA?

Derby Days, Redmond Lights, the Redmond Arts Festival, and the marquee summer concert series at Marymoor Park.

Does Redmond have a farmers market?

Yes — the Redmond Saturday Market runs in the warmer months, alongside Marymoor Park events.

What’s happening in Redmond this weekend?

Redmond neighbors share the most current local events — from Marymoor concerts to downtown happenings — in our community.