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Bermuda Day in Hamilton
Bermuda Day is Bermuda's late-May public holiday, centered on a morning parade through Hamilton featuring gombey troupes, marching bands and floats. Descended from the earlier Victoria Day observance and formally renamed in 1979, it now falls on the Friday closest to 24 May and doubles as the informal start of the island's summer, alongside the Bermuda Day Half Marathon Derby held the same day. The parade runs each year on the Friday closest to 24 May, moving through central Hamilton.
Bermuda Day marks the unofficial start of the island's summer season, anchored by a morning parade through the streets of Hamilton that draws crowds along the full route from majorettes and school marching bands to gombey troupes performing their distinctive drum-and-whistle masquerade.