About · Tue 27 Oct 2026
How we check our dates
Every date on this site is checked against the organiser or an official source before it is published, and the check date is printed on the event page. Here is the method, and what the labels mean.
Philippines What's On currently lists 134 events across the Philippines, of which 58 carry confirmed dates. Every one of them was checked against the organiser or an official source before it went on the calendar, and the date of that check is printed on its event page, next to the link to the source itself. This page explains the method, because a calendar is only worth using if you can see how it was built.
What counts as a source
A date is confirmed when an official page states it: the organiser's own announcement, the venue's event page, the ticketing platform selling the event (Ticketmaster, SM Tickets, TicketNet and TicketWorld carry most of the country's arena calendar), or the governing body for sport, FIBA for basketball above all. Tourism calendars, the Department of Tourism's portals and the host city's own pages are the usual sources for the fiestas. Press coverage starts a record; it never confirms one on its own.
Confirmed and tentative
Many Philippine events run on tradition long before they run on paperwork. A fiesta happens on the third Sunday of January whether or not the foundation has published its programme, and a league season starts in its usual month. Where the organiser has not published the next edition's dates, the record is labelled a tentative date wherever it appears, built from the previous edition or from tradition, with the basis written on the event page. It is a planning guide, not a promise, and it is upgraded the moment the official dates appear.
Re-checking
Dates move. Concerts gain extra nights after presales, festivals publish their programmes late, and typhoons rewrite the rainy season's weekends. So the calendar is re-checked on a rolling basis, the check date on each page moves with it, and confirmed dates that change are changed here rather than left standing. If you spot a date that disagrees with an official page, tell us through the contact page and we will check it the same day we can.
What we do not do
We do not pad the calendar. An event with no official trace does not get listed to make a month look full, and a record never carries a date we have not seen stated or a basis we cannot explain. The counts on the home page are the real counts, computed from the same records you can browse.
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