Editing List of Edinburgh festivals (section)

== The festivals ==
[[File:Edinburgh Tattoo 2010 (4946272332).jpg|thumb|[[Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo]], 2010]]
[[File:Fringe Macbeth, 2013.JPG|thumb|Cast members publicising a Fringe production of Shakespeare's Macbeth]]
Listed in chronological order by 2018 start date, with year of foundation in brackets

===April===
* [[Dead by Dawn (film festival)|Dead by Dawn]] (1993)
* [[Edinburgh International Science Festival]] (1988)

===Easter time===
* [[Ceilidh Culture]] (1951)

===May===
* [[Edinburgh International Children's Festival]] (formerly the [[Imaginate Festival]]) (1990)

===June===
* [[Leith Festival]] (1907)
* [[Leith Jazz and Blues Festival]]
* [[Edinburgh International Film Festival]] (1947) <ref>[http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/view/1871/moving-times-at-eiff Moving times at EIFF]</ref>
* [[Edinburgh Annuale]] (2004)

===July===
* [[Edinburgh International Magic Festival]] (2010)
* [[Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival]] (1978)

===August===
* [[Edinburgh International Festival]] (1947)
* [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] (1947) <ref>[http://www.edfringe.com/area.html?id=48 Fringe Facts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060127010255/http://www.edfringe.com/area.html?id=48 |date=27 January 2006 }}. edfringe: Official site of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2005. Accessed 26 June 2005.</ref>
* [[Edinburgh International Film Festival]] (1947)
* [[Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo]] (1950)
* [[Edinburgh International Television Festival]] (1976)
* [[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] (1983)
* [[Edinburgh Mela]] (1995)
* [[Edinburgh Art Festival]] (2004)
* [[Just Festival]] (formerly the [[Festival of Spirituality and Peace]]) (2005)
* [[Fringe of Colour]] (2018)

===October===
* [[Leith Comedy Festival]] (2020)
* [[Africa in Motion]] (2006)
* [[Scottish International Storytelling Festival]] (1990)
* [[Festival of Politics]] (2005)
* [[Edinburgh Horror Festival]] (2016)

===December===
* [[Edinburgh's Hogmanay]] (1994)

===Uncertain dates===
* [[Edinburgh People's Festival]] (2002, but claims heritage from earlier festival of same name 1951–1954)

===Defunct festivals===
* Edinburgh Interactive Festival (2003)
* Edinburgh International Internet Festival (1999)
* Edinburgh Swing Festival (2006)
* Fringe Film Festival (1984 - 1990)
* Fringe Film & Video Festival (FFVF) (1991 - 1996)
* [[Ifest|iFest]] (2007) — the Internet Festival and Conference
* [[West Port Book Festival]] (2008) &ndash; a free book festival involving secondhand bookshops in the [[West Port, Edinburgh|West Port]] area