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Confirmed 2027 motorcycle rally dates

Five of the majors have already put 2027 on the calendar. These come straight from the organizers, and they’re the ones you can book flights and hotels around right now.

Sturgis goes further than anyone: it has published dates all the way out to 2030 (August 2–11 that year). If you’re the kind of person who plans a trip four years out, they’ve already handed you the calendar.

Motorcycle rallies month by month, March to November

Dates shift a little year to year. The pattern underneath them mostly doesn’t. Here’s where each one lands and how long it runs.

On Arizona Bike Week and Easter. The organizers say it is “always held as close to the first week of April as possible” and that the dates “fluctuate slightly so as not to coincide with Easter weekend.” That is their wording, and it is the only rally here that schedules around a moving holiday. It bit in 2026: Easter landed on April 5, so the rally shifted to April 8–12 instead of opening the first Wednesday.

Two rows say “check the official site” instead of a pattern. That’s deliberate. I worked out the timing for the others by lining up several years of published official dates and confirming the pattern held every time. Born-Free has only one official date on record and Barber’s editions don’t settle on any ordinal, so there is nothing honest to publish for either. A gap beats a guess.

How to know when a rally lands without looking it up

Two of these events actually publish their rule in writing. Rolling to Remember states plainly that the ride happens on the “Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend.” Myrtle Beach says its Fall Rally is “held in the first week of October every year.” Those you can take to the bank.

The rest don’t publish a rule at all. They just post dates. So I lined up several years of official dates for each one and found the pattern myself, which is what the “when it lands” column above is. It holds for every year the organizers have published, but it’s an observed pattern, not a promise from them. Check the official site before you book.

Two of those patterns are worth knowing because almost every article online gets them wrong:

• Daytona Bike Week is not “the first week of March.” It runs ten days ending on the second Sunday in March, which means it can start in February. In 2026 it opened February 27.
• Americade is not “the first week of June.” It follows Memorial Day, so it moves with it. In 2026 the whole thing happens in May.

Book on either of those wrong assumptions and you’ll arrive a week late to an empty town.

Motorcycle rallies and events by state

Same events, sorted the way most people actually search: by where they live or where they are willing to ride to. Where RideWolf has a rides page for the state, it is linked, because the best part of a rally is usually the roads around it.

Nevada riders will notice the gap: no Nevada rally made the cut because none could be confirmed on an organizer’s own site this year. The roads are still there, on the Las Vegas rides page.

Rally, bike week, festival or show: what the names actually mean

The names get used interchangeably, and they shouldn’t be. They tell you what you’re riding into.

The biggest motorcycle rallies in the US, by the numbers

Rally attendance numbers are the most abused statistic in motorcycling. Most of the huge figures you’ve read trace back to nobody in particular. So here’s only what an official source actually publishes, and what each number really counts.

The oldest rally in America, and the math that backs it up

Laconia calls itself “The World’s Oldest Motorcycle Rally,” and the City of Laconia backs it: “the oldest national bike rally in the United States.” Big claims. This one survives a poke.

Riders first gathered at Weirs Beach in 1916, and the first official Gypsy Tour ran there in 1917. From 1917 to 2026 there are 110 annual slots. The rally states that seven years were lost to national and world events. Take seven from 110 and you get 103 — which is exactly the number Laconia put on its 2026 event. The arithmetic closes, which is more than most heritage claims manage.

Sturgis, for its part, doesn’t compete on age. It says only “since 1938” — the year the Jackpine Gypsies hosted the first AMA-sanctioned race in town, with riders camping in Pappy and Pearl Hoel’s backyard. Daytona goes back further still, to the first Daytona 200 on January 24, 1937, won by Ed Kretz on an Indian at 73.34 mph.

Local motorcycle events near you: bike nights, runs and shows

The rallies are the pilgrimage. The local stuff is the lifeblood, and it’s everywhere once you know where to look.

Bike nights. Almost every riding town has one — a diner, a dealership, a parking lot that fills with bikes on a set night of the week. Ours is the Friday night meet at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, a tradition older than most of the bikes in it. Ask at your local dealership or gear shop; somebody there knows where everyone goes.

Charity and poker runs. Weekend group rides for a cause, usually open to everyone and usually the friendliest crowd in riding. Dealerships and riding clubs post these on their boards and social pages.

Demo days and shows. Manufacturers tour demo fleets through dealerships all riding season, which is a free way to ride bikes you’re curious about. Follow your local dealers and you’ll catch them.

And the rides themselves. Event calendars go stale. The freshest list of what’s happening near you is riders posting rides right now, which is exactly what the RideWolf app shows you. Group rides near you, posted by the people riding them, updating in real time. No calendar to maintain, no listings from last year.

Motorcycle rallies and events, asked and answered