Although it may not seem like it, in Madrid the sun shines high in November. It doesn’t heat up in the same way, but it invites you to take to the streets during the day and take refuge in the warmth of the interiors at night. Get comfortable, open the notebook of autumn and warm up with these November plans that we will do in Madrid. The cold, which seems to finally appear, can be beautiful.
Table Of Contents
- Autumn Festival (from November 6 to 30)
- Avatar: The Experience (from November 26)
- Festival Internacional JazzMadrid (until November 30)
- BuzzAttack (from November 30)
- Nike: design in motion (from November 12)
- Apocalypse Now, by Illma Gore
- El castillo de Barbazul / El mandarín maravilloso ( from November 2 to 10)
- Poncia, by Luis Luque (from November 26th)
- Jurassic World: The Experience (all month)
- My First Film Festival 2025 (from November 8 to 23)
- Patronas (from November 6 to 9)
- IKONO (all month)
- Machu Picchu: journey to the lost city (all month)
- MAMBA, a late night by Rita's (every Saturday)
- Antonio Raphael Mengs. The greatest painter of the eighteenth century (from November 25)
- Juan Muñoz. Histories of Art ( from November 13)
- Oliver Twist Musical (from November 12)
- Chaos Lab (from November 7)
- VIII Women's Film Festival (until November 9)
- Spring of Dreams: The Origin of Christmas (from Nov. 27)
- LesGaiCineMad 2025 (from November 11 to 23)
- Book Friday (from November 28 to 30)
- Candlelight's candlelight concerts (all month long)
- Madrid Christmas Lights (November 28)
- Circo Price at Christmas - Daydreaming (from November 21)
- Altar of the Dead at Casa Mexico (until November 9)
- From the Almudena crown to traditional celebrations (around November 9).
- Candlelight Meditation: a mindfulness experience with piano (Nov. 9)
- Festival Eñe (from November 11 to 26).
- The Jazz Room: Tribute to Soul (November 2)
- Madrid Craft Week (from November 20 to 30)
- The best of November in Madrid? The bridge
- Rizoma (November 18 to 23)
- Discover this Madrid autumn route
- John Akomfrah: listening to the rain all night long (from November 4th)
- Concerts in November
- The best cocidos of the capital (whenever you want)
- Film Festival (November 3-6)
- Talking machines. The art of catching the sound (all month long)
- Solidarity Market (November 28-30)
- Hangar 52 (from November 14th)
- Nuevo Futuro Flea Market (November 13 to 16)
Autumn Festival (from November 6 to 30)
The Autumn Festival returns for its 43rd edition and, as usual, will join arts such as theater, performance… A festival that has placed Madrid as a reference in the international performing arts circuit and brings together innovative and avant-garde national and international proposals. This 2025, with an international focus where “aims, above all, to be a space for dialogue. Artistic, aesthetic, cultural and generational dialogue”.
It will kick off on November 6 with Comédie de Genève, by Coup Fatal in the Red Room of the Canal Theater. It will close on November 30 with Re Chicchinella ( by Emma Dante and Compagnia Sud Costa Occidentale); and with El invencible verano de Liliana ( by Juan Carlos Fischer and Cristina Rivera Garza). Here you can access the complete program.
📍 Various locations
Avatar: The Experience (from November 26)
This month, Madrid prepares to travel to another planet. Avatar: The Experience arrives at Espacio Delicias with a one-hour tour through the bioluminescent jungles of Pandora, the scientific laboratories that study its ecosystem and the animatronic creatures that inhabit it. A plan designed for fans of the saga and for those who want to return to Pandora, just before the premiere of the new film on December 19.
📍 Where to go? Espacio Delicias (Delicias)
🗓 Tickets : from 16€.
Festival Internacional JazzMadrid (until November 30)
Leonor Watling with Leo Sidran, Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet, John Mdeski’s Mad Skillet… are just some of the names that will perform in the halls of Madrid to enjoy, claim, occupy, a jazz space that is part of the essence of the city. Check the program here.
📍Where to go? Various locations.
BuzzAttack (from November 30)
Easy, simple and for the whole family: BuzzAttack is the chance to immerse ourselves in those TV quizzes that make us scream at the screen, that make us get up from the table or the sofa because we do know the answer, that provoke fits of laughter? In the heart of Chamberí neighborhood will be installed from November 30 a large set with different contests in which we can participate (with a minimum of 4 people so you know, get organized to win).
📍 Location: Raimundo Lulio street, 9 (Chamberí).
Tickets: group of 4 people: from 100 € (rest of rates here).
Nike: design in motion (from November 12)
It all started with a sneaker design, continued with sportswear and evolved in such a powerful way that its logo is in the world’s collective imagination. The history of Nike and its design is a paradigm of an era, but also of innovation and current technology. The exhibition Nike: design in motion, organized by La Fábrica, brings to TeamLabs/ Madrid six decades of history in various objects from the archive of the sports house.
📍 Location: TeamLabs/, atPlaza San Martín, 1 (Centro) Tickets: starting at 14€.
Apocalypse Now, by Illma Gore
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The objective is clear: to turn the politicians of the 20th and 21st century into whining, crying, pouting, capricious, demanding, protesting cherubs. Isn’t it easy to imagine them like that? This simple premise is what Illma Gore uses for the Apocalypse Now exhibition at the Neomudejar Museum this month. “I don’t paint to decorate. Painting is a weapon. It attacks power, defends the innocent and exposes those who shape lives ignoring the cost.” Amen, Illma.
📍 Location: Museo La Neomudéjar, at Antonio Nebrija street, s/n
El castillo de Barbazul / El mandarín maravilloso ( from November 2 to 10)
This double bill brings together for the first time at the Teatro Real El mandarín maravilloso and El castillo de Barbazul, two masterpieces by Béla Bartók (under the stage direction of Christof Loy) united by an atmosphere of mystery and a profound reflection on desire, redemption and the transforming power of love. In The Wonderful Mandarin, passion and violence intertwine in a story where love is consummated only at the limit between life and death; while in The Castle of Barbazul, Judith’s curiosity and surrender reveal the shadows of the human soul and the price of absolute love.
📍 Where is it? Plaza de Isabel II, s/n (Center)
Poncia, by Luis Luque (from November 26th)
Poncia, starring Lolita Flores and directed by Luis Luque, offers an intimate and powerful reinterpretation of the universe of The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca. From the words and silences of the original character, Luque constructs a monologue that takes place after Adela’s suicide, where Poncia, freed from her secondary role, reflects on guilt, freedom, repression and love.
📍Where: Teatro Bellas Artes in Madrid, at Calle del Marqués de Casa Riera, 2 (Downtown).
Jurassic World: The Experience (all month)
Jurassic World: The Experience continues its Jurassic tour in Madrid: a large island in the heart of Espacio Delicias, which is a trip to the films of the saga and to a time when Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex and velociraptors roamed free…
📍 Location: Paseo de las Delicias, 61 (Espacio Delicias, Arganzuela) Tickets: from 22€.
My First Film Festival 2025 (from November 8 to 23)
Bringing cinema closer to the little ones (from 2 to 12 years old) and doing it from a festival perspective: that is, screenings, talks, workshops, deepening and deepening not only in knowledge and film language but also in the culture of the image and references.
📍 Where? Various spaces.
Patronas (from November 6 to 9)
Every November 9, Madrid celebrates its patron saint, Our Lady of the Almudena. In this context, the association of venues Madrid en Vivo, vindicates the musical “Patronesses” of the city: that is, new, emerging bands, starring women with a series of 22 concerts with names like Carolina Araoz, Meriendacena (pictured) or Andrea Buenavista. You can access the complete program here.
📍 Where to go? Various venues belonging to the Madrid en Vivo Association.
IKONO (all month)
IKONO is an exhibition experience that absorbs, takes you into the world of different artists, room by room. A completely immersive and immersive space is a space dedicated to immersion in surreal scenarios. We will find rooms intervened by names of audiovisual art or interactive design such as Heather Bellino, Ishita Banerjee, Kimberly Leahey, Ricardo Cavolo, Kaisar Kolektif, Kuflex…
📍 Location: calle de Sánchez Bustillo, 7 (Atocha).
Tickets: from 12€.
Machu Picchu: journey to the lost city (all month)
Technology is the protagonist in this virtual reality experience that will take you to the Sacred Valley of Machu Picchu. 45 minutes of experience in which we will learn about the history and Inca symbology, we will visit palaces and buildings and we will enter into the customs and ways of this town that still keeps many secrets.
📍 Location: Calle de Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, 57 (Tetuán – Nuevos Ministerios) Tickets: from 16,20€.
MAMBA, a late night by Rita’s (every Saturday)
Is the night overrated? We wouldn’t dare to say so, but we do celebrate the fact that Madrid offers the opportunity to enjoy live music, DJ’s, performances, exclusive shows, Golden Tickets and a lot of entertainment even in the evening. And never miss the champagne! Thus are born the new sessions MAMBA by Rita’s, a “tardeo” every Saturday from 18.00 to 00.00h in Opium, where the sun says goodbye to discover an elegant and sophisticated event full of energy on the dance floor.
Location: Calle de José Abascal, 56 (Chamberí)
Antonio Raphael Mengs. The greatest painter of the eighteenth century (from November 25)
The Prado Museum opens this month the most important monographic exhibition of Antonio Raphael Mengs produced to date. 150 works by the German painter (including drawings, oil paintings, pastels…) will serve to analyze his relationship with other masters of the time.
📍Where? Calle Felipe IV s/n (Jerónimos)
Juan Muñoz. Histories of Art ( from November 13)
It is said that Juan Muñoz was one of the great precursors of contemporary art. His human figures, always in a group, always gesticulating an impossible, non-existent conversation, are the hallmark of his artistic production. Madrid dedicated a monographic exhibition in the Alcalá 31 hall a couple of years ago; now, El Prado, analyzes how the artist always dialogued with the great classics: from Velázquez to Goya, from Borromini to Bernini.
📍Where? Calle Felipe IV s/n (Jerónimos)
Oliver Twist Musical (from November 12)
The classic among classics, if we talk about winter and/or Christmas dates: Oliver Twist comes to the stage of Teatro La Latina with a musical adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. From the same producer of the musical ‘The Choirboys’, AMR Produce, more than 30 actors will delve into the life of this orphan who lives adventures and misadventures in the London of the nineteenth century.
📍Where? Plaza de la Cebada, 2 (Downtown)
Chaos Lab (from November 7)
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The immersive experience will soon be inaugurated in Madrid. Chaos Lab will soon open in Madrid, conceived, conceived and designed by and for the little ones of the house (recommended for children from 4 years old). To enter here is to enter a giant and peculiar laboratory, in which room by room, they will have to go through challenges, tests, different experiments with which to learn more about science but also to play and have a great time.
📍 Location: Islazul Shopping Center (Carabanchel).
💸 Tickets:adult, 8€; children between 4 and 11 years old, 15€.
VIII Women’s Film Festival (until November 9)
The international event that offers a space where the talent and the look of women in film become the protagonists is back. A way to concentrate and show the diversity and depth of their works. Each screening is an opportunity to reflect on gender equality, question stereotypes and discover new ways of narrating the world. This year, the VIII Festival Cine por Mujeres will occupy 18 venues that will screen 62 feature films from 18 countries and 64 different directors. You can access the complete program here.
📍 Location: Several venues
Spring of Dreams: The Origin of Christmas (from Nov. 27)
A magical kingdom will be installed in the Royal Botanical Garden Alfonso XIII to live a total immersive Christmas experience. A tale that this year focuses on the origin of Christmas. As in previous editions, inside this space there will be shows, activities, a canteen… All framed in a Christmas atmosphere, in a real Christmas story.
📍Where? Royal Botanical Garden Alfonso XIII, Complutense Av. s/n (Ciudad Universitaria)
LesGaiCineMad 2025 (from November 11 to 23)
The most important Spanish-speaking LGTBIQA+ thematic film festival in the world returns to Madrid for its 30th edition, three decades of a festival as vindictive as it is necessary. On this occasion, in addition, they are joining forces with Zinemaldia and four of the most outstanding films from the last edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival will be part of the program.
The objective is to show “works that open new paths for queer cinema and that reflect the diversity of looks, aesthetics and narratives“. The event includes competitive sections for feature films, short films and documentaries, where the winners are chosen by the audience attending the screenings, with two screenings at different times for each film.
📍Where? Various locations
Book Friday (from November 28 to 30)
More than 60 bookstores from all over Spain celebrate an alternative to the frenetic consumerism of Black Friday: Book Friday is the initiative of readers, booksellers and writers who, in a three-day meeting, claim “encounters without discounts” with activities for all ages and a program that will reach the prisons of Soto del Real or Valdemoro, for example.
📍 Where will it take place? Various locations
Candlelight’s candlelight concerts (all month long)
Candlelight’s program for this November includes tributes to Queen, Coldplay, The Beatles, Metallica, Abba… and such juicy novelties as a tribute to the Movida Madrileña or eternal tributes to Ennio Morricone, The Beatles, Joan Manuel Serrat, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Adele… All in spectacular locations such as the Four Seasons Hotel, the Athenaeum, the Pontifical Basilica of San Miguel, the Palace of the Dukes of Santoña…
Location: various locations.
💸Tickets : Admission: from 15 €.
Madrid Christmas Lights (November 28)
As every year, Madrid turns on its Christmas lights in the throes of November (it will be on the 28th). The lights will glow until January 6, as they do every season, and many streets throughout the city will premiere Christmas lighting: practically every corner of Madrid (some 240 locations in 21 districts) with more than 13 million LED-type bulbs, prioritizing energy savings. In total, 7,134 chains, 126 cherry trees and 13 large luminous fir trees will flood Madrid.
📍 Where? Various locations in Madrid
Circo Price at Christmas – Daydreaming (from November 21)
A classic Christmas production will be back at Circo Price during the winter season: Daydreaming is the story of a group of children who get lost in the forest and, in their adventure, end up being helped by animals that lead them to a mysterious circus…
📍Where? Ronda de Atocha, 25 (Embajadores)
Altar of the Dead at Casa Mexico (until November 9)
A tradition that has caught on among Madrilenians is the annual visit to Casa de México’s spectacular Altar de Muertos (Altar of the Dead). This year, it is inspired by the golden age of Mexican cabarets and, thanks to its designer (Guillermo González), it looks more colorful and lively, ironically, than ever.
📍Where is it located? Calle de Alberto Aguilera, 20 (Chamberí)
From the Almudena crown to traditional celebrations (around November 9).
As has become customary, the days before the celebration of the Almudena, the cathedral of Santa María la Real de la Almudena, hosts the triduum in her honor. On the 9th, the image goes in procession to the Plaza Mayor (and then returns). Between floral offerings, classical music concerts, dance demonstrations… the pastry shops work hard to create one of the typical desserts of Madrid: the Crown of the Almudena. Here are our favorites.
📍Where to go? Several locations.
Candlelight Meditation: a mindfulness experience with piano (Nov. 9)
Stop, relax, escape for a few minutes by concentrating on your breathing and on the piano notes that, in the background, set the rhythm… Candlelight, the cycle of candlelight concerts, starts this November with a new proposal, much more intimate: a guided mindfulness session with Andrea Klimowitz and the live music of a piano in the background. Limited places and only two sessions on November 9.
📍 Location: Four Seasons Hotel Madrid (at 12 Alcalá Street).
💸 Tickets: from 25€.
Festival Eñe (from November 11 to 26).
November is that month of pure transition: we are leaving autumn behind and getting ready to make us a little winter bundle. In this context, reading is a necessary refuge. And new authors, new letters, the importance of words. This seventeenth edition of the Eñe Festival will bring together in Madrid a hundred writers from around the world and different activities (recitals, talks, conversations…) in dozens of venues throughout the city. This great cultural festival “vindicates pleasure as an urgent necessity. In the face of haste and uncertainty, enjoyment becomes resistance”. The program will be published soon.
📍Where will it take place? Various venues throughout Madrid.
The Jazz Room: Tribute to Soul (November 2)
Café Berlin will host an event dedicated to soul music, so attractive, with powerful voices, catchy choruses but not catchy at all: a tribute to the cultural legacy of soul represented with a musical ensemble that will revive the evening performing classics by Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye or Stevie Wonder.
📍 Location: Café Berlín, at Costanilla de los Ángeles, 20 (Sol) Tickets: from 25€.
Madrid Craft Week (from November 20 to 30)
Yes, no matter how much we try to delay it, life runs over us with tinsel, street lights and street markets: Christmas is already here (and we will complain; in Vigo they have been installing lights since July). And just as the time of the lighting, so awaited by the Madrilenians, is approaching, we already have closer and closer creative initiatives such as Madrid Craft Week, which starts this November with ten days dedicated to arts and crafts. That is, a space by and for the handmade, with a selection of author stores, presentations, talks, lectures and the work of craftsmen and craftswomen who will show here all their talent.
📍Where? Several locations
The best of November in Madrid? The bridge
You’ll say we’re basic: we’re enjoyers. What we want in November is to rest, explore the city, and enjoy the last traces of this autumn that covers the floors of Madrid with brown leaves. That’s why we are already designing the perfect November long weekend in Madrid from October 31 to November 2. We want to visit the Nike exhibition, enjoy one of the JazzMadrid concerts, take a stroll through the Montejo beech forest and, of course, eat some puchero.
📍Where to go? Several locations.
Rizoma (November 18 to 23)
The audiovisual festival RIZOMA will inaugurate its 13th edition advocating transrealism, that is, reflecting on the transformation of reality through cinematography itself. In turn, this edition will serve to pay tribute to one of the masters of this complex relationship between the real, the imagined, the possible and the impossible: David Lynch, who visited Madrid in 2013 precisely by the hand of this festival.
Where? Various locations.
Discover this Madrid autumn route
The most beautiful time of the year is here. It’s autumn in Madrid and the city is more colorful than ever: we want to see the capital dyed red and brown, crunching with our feet the blankets of dry leaves and see how this season manifests itself in all neighborhoods.
We have prepared a route to find the best pictures of Madrid’s autumn: Real Jardín Botánico, Plaza de Olavide, Retiro… among many others.
📍 Several locations
John Akomfrah: listening to the rain all night long (from November 4th)
A visual poem, an experimental work, a video composition and an immersive experience. This is what John Akomfrah (artist of Ghanaian origin) proposes from November 4 in the temporary exhibition hall of the Thyssen. A reflection on nature, the ephemeral and transitory nature of life, through 8 large immersive film and sound installations.
📍 Where? Plaza de las Cortes, 3 (Jerónimos)
Concerts in November
What a month, are you ready? Radiohead will play four days at Movistar Arena, Vistalegre will host the live performance of Turnstile, the eagerly awaited emocore concert of Deafheaven, the brazenness of La Élite? November arrives with a live agenda worthy of a festival. You can check here the complete agenda.
📍 Where to go? Various venues, arenas and halls in Madrid.
The best cocidos of the capital (whenever you want)
Let’s admit it: it’s that time of the year although the weather continues to be mild, even hot at times. The spoon dishes appear, the stews are prepared in large pots, the chup chup resounds in the stoves of Madrid’s restaurants. These are the favorite cocidos of the editorial staff of Madrid Secreto: from the iconic and most classic Lhardy, to the most awarded cocido broth in the capital (La Bola), through the Malacatín (which you can order at home) or the neighborhood one that never fails and to make room for the churrería potatoes served on site (Cruz Blanca de Vallecas).
📍 Where? Several restaurants all over the city.
Film Festival (November 3-6)
As every autumn, one more edition of the Fiesta del Cine returns with premieres at 3,50€ in more than 40 movie theaters spread all over the city (Yelmo, Cinesa, Kinépolis, Embajadores, Renoir, Verdi, Odeón…).
📍 Where are they? Various movie theaters in the city.
Talking machines. The art of catching the sound (all month long)
Talking machines were those that, at the end of the 19th century, had the capacity to reproduce sounds. They marked a new stage in the history of sound. Now, an exhibition at the National Library of Spain (BNE) houses more than 650,000 sound recordings that make up one of the most important collections of sound documents in the Spanish-speaking world. This exhibition traces the history and importance of talking machines, a journey into the sounds of the past.
📍 Where? Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22 (Salamanca)
Solidarity Market (November 28-30)
The Christmas Charity Bazaar of the Association of Swiss Ladies returns this November. It will be held at the Swiss Club in collaboration with the restaurant El Chalet Suizo and, as every Christmas, there will be handmade products and advent wreaths (created by the members themselves). More than four decades ago a group of women created a charity association called “El ropero” (in which they knitted clothes for people in need) and, over time, it has evolved into a Christmas market whose proceeds go to soup kitchens.
📍 Where is it held? Carretera de Burgos km. 14 (Alcobendas)
Hangar 52 (from November 14th)
The Magician Yunke returns with a new tour of the show Hangar 52, a show designed for the whole family in which the recognized World Champion of Magic will bring all his knowledge and skill in the field of illusionism, magic, illusion … and special effects.
📍Where? GTM Espacio La Vaguada, located on the terraces of La Vaguada Shopping Center, at Avenida Monforte de Lemos, 36 (Fuencarral-El Pardo).
Nuevo Futuro Flea Market (November 13 to 16)
The Crystal Gallery of the Cibeles Palace will open its doors for four days reconverted into a great flea market: Rastrillo Nuevo Futuro was born more than fifty editions ago with a solidary vocation through the proceeds from the sale of restored furniture and antiques reinterpreted, designer clothes, handmade jewelry, tableware, accessories … will be from 11.00 to 22.00h with an access price of 6€.
📍Where? Plaza Cibeles, 1 (Retiro)