June plans in Madrid smell of jasmine, sun cream and a touch of chlorine, because there is nothing more refreshing than a dip in a Madrid pool. June in Madrid is the last month in which you can make summer plans before the sun goes down, without hating the heat, so it’s time to take advantage and enjoy all the plans that the capital offers us.
Table Of Contents
- KALORAMA Madrid (June 20 and 21)
- European Day of Music at Matadero (June 20 and 21)
- Hispano-American Festival of the Golden Age (from June 13)
- An afternoon at MADRING - Roadshow with Carlos Sainz (June 7)
- Jurassic World: The Experience (all month)
- A Bridgerton musical experience with Candlelight
- Concerts in June
- Book Fair (until June 15)
- A Summer Story (June 21 and 22)
- Pride Festivities (from June 28)
- The FRIENDS™ Experience (all month)
- Babylon Park: the air-conditioned amusement park in Leganés
- La Movida, youth and freedom. 1977-1986 (from June 4th)
- Nights at the Botanical Gardens (from June 4)
- Cathedral (from June 12 to 14)
- The First Round: meet new people every week (every Thursday)
- Vlaemsch (chez moi) ( June 19-22)
- PhotoESPAÑA (during the whole month)
- Hay que saber estar. Miss Beige (from June 11)
- Essential Power. Women, rurality and self-representation. From the Valley to the Prado (from June 12).
- Photography and drawings. Dora Maar (from June 6th)
- A propósito del paisaje, by José Guerrero(from June 3rd)
- After all: photography in the Helga de Alvear collection (from June 3)
- Picasso's Barber ( from June 5th)
- Ballet of Lights: Peter Pan in a brilliant show (two sessions June 28)
- Manzanares el Real Medieval Market (from June 20 to 22)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (from June 12)
- Camp under construction (from June 23 to July 11)
- Patron saint festivities (various dates)
- So far away, so close. Guadalupe de Mexico in Spain (from June 10)
- Carmen Martín Gaite and collage: a diary in freedom (all month long)
- 'Crowd' by Gisèle Vienne (from June 1).
- Piano City Madrid (from June 13 to 15)
- The municipal swimming pools of Madrid (all month long)
KALORAMA Madrid (June 20 and 21)
KALORAMA Madrid is everything we ask of the summer solstice: fun, good music, thrilling live performances and an incredible vibe. In its second edition the festival changes location (Caja Mágica) and concentrates all the good stuff in two days and on two stages. This 2025 we will baptize the summer to the rhythm of Pet Shop Boys, Jorja Smith, Azealia Banks, Father John Misty, The Flaming Lips, Scissor Sisters, Alizzz, BADBADNOTGOOD, Boy Harsher, L’Impératrice, Maria Arnal, Model/Actriz, Bloodstein, El Buen Hijo, Irenegarry, Laura Sam, La Plata and PUTOCHINOMARICÓN.
📍 Location: Caja Mágica.
📅 Dates: June 20th and 21st.
💸 Tickets: vouchers from 115€.
European Day of Music at Matadero (June 20 and 21)
June 21 is the European Day of Music and, as every year, Matadero bets on an incredible musical program to celebrate it as it deserves. This year, with a small difference: Friday’s concerts will be free; however, tickets for the concerts on Saturday, June 21, will cost €5.
Tickets: Friday, free admission; Saturday, 5€.
Where: Matadero, at Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela).
Hispano-American Festival of the Golden Age (from June 13)
The Golden Age scene returns to the stages of Alcalá de Henares this summer. More than 80 performances and 62 national and international theater companies invite us to travel through the texts of Cervantes, Quevedo, Góngora, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or Calderón de la Barca in different spaces of the city, as well as to enjoy a varied program, including free and street shows for all audiences. An opportunity to dream the classics through theater, music, circus, poetry and dance. Don’t miss it! Discover here the whole program.
📍Alcalá de Henares
🗓️ From June 13 to July 6
💸 Tickets
An afternoon at MADRING – Roadshow with Carlos Sainz (June 7)
MADRING is the name of the urban racing circuit that, in the surroundings of IFEMA, is currently under construction. But this June 7, the people of Madrid will be able to enjoy a roadshow that will cover part of this circuit with the driver Carlos Sainz. This presentation event is totally free and open access.
📍 Location: Avenida del Partenón, Recinto Ferial IFEMA Madrid (Barajas)
Tickets: free (sign up on the waiting list to receive exclusive information about the event).
Jurassic World: The Experience (all month)
A trip back in time, a nostalgic look at one of the movies of our lives (or rather, sagas) and an exhibition that pays tribute to the imaginary of Jurassic World with life-size animatronic dinosaurs, scenes from the film to notice the breath of the T-rex behind our backs or meet the “baby dinos” in the laboratory.
📍 Location: Paseo de las Delicias, 61 (Delicias, Arganzuela).
Tickets: from 22€.
A Bridgerton musical experience with Candlelight
📍Where? Various locations
💸 Tickets: Different prices depending on the sector you choose.
Concerts in June
The month of June starts with the rock of Been Stellar and the hard rock punk rage of Gouge Away to go to softer, catchy, summer rhythms of Dellafuente or Marc Anthony. The complete list (and more) at this link.
📍 Location: Different locations
Tickets: starting at 15€.
Book Fair (until June 15)
The 84th edition of the Book Fair, which kicks off on May 30, presents a poster that holds the secrets and keys to what will happen this 2025. To begin with, the connection between Madrid and New York (which will be the common thread of this edition); also, the contrast between the urban and the natural. In addition, this Fair comes with a project of inclusion through Braille (and an ONCE coupon dedicated to the Fair and the 200th anniversary of the birth of this writing system).
📍 Where?7 Independence Square (Retiro Park)
A Summer Story (June 21 and 22)
Two days of pure slipper in the City of Rock. Arganda del Rey will host this festival that is already “home” for the most lovers of the electronic and techno genre but also urban. This year, A Summer Story has a lineup that returns the furor and brightness to which the festival has accustomed us: Amelie Lens, Don Diablo, Juicy M, Hardwell, Reinier Zonneveld, Nicky Romero, Afrojack or Hector Oaks… and the tremendous set of Fatima Hajji Invites, that is, a stage by and for the diva of the dark and her guest artists, hand in hand.
📍 Where? Autovía de Valencia km.33, (Arganda del Rey)
💸 Tickets: Day ticket from 40€; season ticket, from 69€.
Pride Festivities (from June 28)
June 28 is International Pride Day, the commemoration of the StoneWall riots and the start of a series of activities, talks, conferences, sports competitions, concerts, parties that exhale vindication. Everything will start on June 28 with different events in the neighborhood of Chueca and will continue with classics such as Plumas y patitas ( June 30) in the Plaza de Pedro Zerolo.
📍 Where? Several locations.
The FRIENDS™ Experience (all month)
The official exhibition of the 90’s series par excellence is at IFEMA. During this summer month we will be able to go inside Monica’s apartment, play a game of foosball with Joey and Chandler or read Ross and Rachel’s breakup letter.
📍 Location: IFEMA Madrid. Pavilion 14.1. Avenida Partenón, 5. (Barajas)
Tickets: general admission 15€.
Babylon Park: the air-conditioned amusement park in Leganés
Babylon Park is a theme park, but with an extra twist. And we’re not just saying that because it’s indoor or has spinning flying chairs. We say that because it’s set like those space alien movies we all remember so fondly.
More than 100 arcade machines, roller coaster (yes, inside an enclosure), shuttle… and even a virtual reality area, which is everywhere these days! Plus, you can buy tickets with unlimited access for an hour and a half or two. And if you go in a group of four, it’s cheaper for all of you. Did you know that?
📍 Location: Westfiel Parquesur. Avenida Gran Bretaña, s/n (Leganés).
Tickets: 1.5h of unlimited play for 15€.
La Movida, youth and freedom. 1977-1986 (from June 4th)
The Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) organizes an exhibition that recalls the cultural revulsive that La Movida madrileña meant, a movement that spread in all artistic disciplines (music, cinema, theater, design…) and that, from the early years of the Transition until the mid-80s, worked as a breeding ground for a way of approaching art that had not been possible in the country until that moment.
The exhibited pieces are largely part of the personal collections of artists such as Alaska y los Pegamoides, Aviador Dro, Gabinete Caligari, Parálisis Permanente, Nacha Pop, Hombres G, Pedro Almodóvar, Fernando Colomo, Miguel Trillo…. There will even be pieces by artists who combined their musical careers with other artistic interests, such as design, painting or illustration (in the case of Tino Casal, Miluca Sanz, Carlos Berlanga or Víctor Coyote, the latter, creator of the exhibition poster).
📍 Location:Calle de Fernando VI, 4 (Chueca)
Tickets: free
Nights at the Botanical Gardens (from June 4)
With the heat, the musical furor in the shade of the trees of the Royal Botanical Garden Alfonso XIII. Yet another edition, the Botanical Nights will prescribe a good dose of nature and live music with performances this month by Van Morrison, Fangoria, Rozalén, Duncan Dhu on its 40th anniversary, Morrisey, Parcels, Zahara, Lori Meyeres, Air, Roxette…. Impressive.
📍Where to go? Avenida Complutense, s/n (Moncloa – Aravaca)
Cathedral (from June 12 to 14)
Choreographer Marcos Morau premieres in Spain a modern dance work about human existence for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. The Red Room of the Teatros del Canal will host this piece only from June 12 to 14. An experience about the power of movement and the depth of music that inspires the spectator “to stop and wonder about the mystery of life itself”.
Where? Calle de Cea Bermúdez, 1 (Chamberí)
💸 Tickets: between 9 and 30€.
The First Round: meet new people every week (every Thursday)
The First Round… with strangers! The First Round experience is a kind of blind date with future friends. In other words, it’s about spending a lively evening in the company of strangers with conversation dynamics, games and a delicious meal. To start, you will have to fill out a very simple questionnaire and according to your answers, people with similar interests will be sought. If you are new or new to Madrid, you know: sign up for a first round.
📍 Location: secret location.
📅 Dates: Thursday June
💸 Tickets: vouchers from 11€.
Vlaemsch (chez moi) ( June 19-22)
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui choreographs this contemporary dance piece by confronting the flamenco roots inherited from his mother. He is the son of a Flemish mother and a Moroccan father, and in this intersection he finds an eclectic space, of his own unique patina, in his creations. Vlaemsch “opens the door to a mythical past that, nevertheless, starts from concrete objects and figures”, as defined by Teatros del Canal. On stage, these objects and body movement will mark the union between past and present.
📍 Location: Calle de Cea Bermúdez, 1 (Chamberí)
💸 Tickets: from 9 to 30€.
PhotoESPAÑA (during the whole month)
Madrid becomes these months in pure photography. PhotoESPAÑA is the great event that highlights the visual arts in 103 exhibitions and the participation of 360 photographers (as well as visual artists). These samples, which will flood various rooms of the city and you can check here the full program. We highlight five this June:
Hay que saber estar. Miss Beige (from June 11)
She is always in beige. She and her hammers. She, meddling in everyday life and taking advantage of the benefits of social networks to vindicate, to make us laugh a few times and to say that there is another way to appear in the digital world. A way “born in response to the lack of female heroines who are not sexualized or objectified in the collective imagination“.
📍Where: Museo Cerralbo, at 17 Ventura Rodriguez St. (Downtown).
Essential Power. Women, rurality and self-representation. From the Valley to the Prado (from June 12).
The PradoEducation team and a group of women from the Mancomunidad de Municipios del Valle del Jerte, have joined forces in a photographic project that addresses the representation of women and rural life. “The objective is to open a conversation around the realities of rural women and the relationships with their context from an ecofeminist perspective.” To this end, the self-portraits are inspired by female deities and allegories from both mythology and nature, with scenography by Pilar Soto.
📍Where: Museo del Prado, Calle Felipe IV s/n. ( Los Jerónimos).
Photography and drawings. Dora Maar (from June 6th)
Dora Maar is one of the great outstanding artists of the surrealist movement. She began her photographic career in the late 1920s and, upon opening her own studio in Paris in 1931, signed her works with the name Dora Maar, thus consolidating an artistic identity of her own. Maar also used photography as a tool for social criticism, as evidenced by her powerful images of life in Barcelona in 1933, just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
In addition to her photographic work, she left a valuable legacy of drawings -many of them made on loose sheets or ledgers- that show her particular way of observing the world. He was also a key witness to Picasso’s creative process by documenting the making of Guernica.
📍Where: Museo Lázaro Galdiano, 122 Serrano St. (Salamanca district).
A propósito del paisaje, by José Guerrero(from June 3rd)
Granada-born photographer José Guerrero explores the landscape as an “active entity, invested with its own identity on which history, culture and collective imaginary intertwine”. Thus, his photographs are not only a sample of what he sees through the lens, but an absolute evocation of the circumstances, as something that is not alien to whoever observes the photographs.
📍Where: Fundación Mapfre at Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Recoletos).
After all: photography in the Helga de Alvear collection (from June 3)
“After everything” is the motto under which this new edition of the International Photography Festival, PHotoESPAÑA, is proposed. It is also the title of an exhibition that brings together the photographic collections of the Helga de Alvear Collection. Photographs that capture the essence of three historical periods that have left open wounds: from World War I through the industrial crisis of the mid-twentieth century and the reconfiguration of Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With works by Eugène Atget, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Höfer, Struth, Gursky, Hütte…
📍Where? Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga in Alameda Street, 15 (Downtown)
Picasso’s Barber ( from June 5th)
The Teatro Español hosts at the Margarita Xirgu Hall a play by playwright Borja Ortiz de Gondra. Starring Antonio Molero, Pepe Viyuela, Mar Calvo and José Ramón Iglesias (directed by Chiqui Carabante). This comedy is inspired by the friendship forged between Pablo Picasso and his barber, Eugenio Arias, in a place in France. Between cultural clashes and conversations about art, politics and events, not only is this friendship built, but also an invented homeland, a safe place from the stigma of exile.
📍 Location: Calle del Príncipe, 25 (Center)
💸 Tickets: from 18 €
Ballet of Lights: Peter Pan in a brilliant show (two sessions June 28)
A new experience that unites classical dance, technology and the story of Peter Pan: Ballet of Lights is the work of six dancers who will take us into the universe of Neverland through dance.
📍 Where will it take place? Círculo de Bellas Artes at Calle de Alcalá, 42 (Centro)
💸 Tickets: Day ticket from 29€.
Manzanares el Real Medieval Market (from June 20 to 22)
Crafts and popular gastronomy will fill for three days the Town Square of Manzanares el Real celebrating a medieval market that honors the origins of the town.
📍 Where? Town Square (Manzanares el Real)
A Streetcar Named Desire (from June 12)
78 years after the publication of Tennessee Williams ‘ great masterpiece , it returns. It does so in the Main Hall of the Teatro Español with Nathalie Poza and Pablo Derqui, who will play Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski.
📍 Where:Plaza Santa Ana, C. del Príncipe, 25 (Centro)
💸 Tickets: from 6 €.
Camp under construction (from June 23 to July 11)
It’s a camp but it’s much more: this set of activities is aimed at children between 6 and 12 years old with a common thread: that children turn the city into a laboratory of ideas, games and urban adventures. For this purpose, and separated according to age, there are teams of Architects (6 to 8) and Urban Planners (9 to 12).
Where: Matadero, Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela).
Patron saint festivities (various dates)
How we love a good verbena in Madrid. The dancing, the orchestra, the fried foods, the carnation in the hair and the feeling of neighborliness are unbeatable. June is the start of the festivities in several neighborhoods such as Aluche (in fact, they start on May 30), San Antonio in Moncloa and Malasaña, Usera, Butarque, Marconi, Dehesa de la Villa, Moratalaz… June is what happens while we dance from one verbena to the next.
📍Where? Several locations
So far away, so close. Guadalupe de Mexico in Spain (from June 10)
An exhibition on the image and diffusion of the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose peak occurred between 1650 and 1790 between Spain, Italy, the Philippines and Latin America. This exhibition brings together some 70 works that analyze its reproduction and copying throughout the world by New Spanish artists.
📍Where: Museo del Prado, Calle Felipe IV s/n. ( Los Jerónimos).
Carmen Martín Gaite and collage: a diary in freedom (all month long)
This 2025 marks the centenary of the birth of writer Carmen Martín Gaite. Matadero’s Casa del Lector is dedicating an exhibition to the author in collaboration with the Carmen Martín Gaite Foundation and Ediciones Siruela. The exhibition explores Gaite’s vision of New York City.
Where: Matadero, Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
💸 Free admission.
Crowd is a rave turned contemporary dance. Fifteen young people abandon themselves to the rhythm of electronics in a piece that reflects on love, violence and emotions exploding in the dark. Gisèle Vienne signs this intense and cathartic choreography, programmed as part of the Madrid en Danza Festival.
📍Where: Concha Velasco Red Room. Canal Theaters. C. de Cea Bermúdez, 1 (Chamberí).
💸 Admission: from 25€.
Piano City Madrid (from June 13 to 15)
Music returns to the streets with Piano City Madrid. Still to be confirmed the number of concerts, we know the dates and also the confirmation that the pianist Chano Dominguez, “the great master of jazz-flamenco Cadiz,” will return to the festival on June 14 at the Auditorium of the Centro Cultural CondeDuque. The rest of the days, piano concerts that will brighten the streets and neighborhoods of the city performed by veteran pianists and young talents. Three days in which Madrid will sound like classical music, jazz, jazz-flamenco, contemporary music, ambient, electronic music…
📍Where? Several locations
The municipal swimming pools of Madrid (all month long)
They feel, they are almost there. The municipal swimming pools will open on May 15 (despite the continuous weather changes) and, therefore, we compiled the best swimming pools in the Community of Madrid to go preparing, with much optimism and desire, the bath, flip-flops and sunscreen. In addition, here we tell you the swimming pool novelties of this 2025, the schedules and the rates.
📍Where to go? Different locations.