August-2024

Août 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Carmel by the Sea Farmers Market
The Market features local certified organic fresh farm produce, eggs, plants, fresh cut flowers, and specialty items such as olive oil, hummus, pizza and bread. Green Waste Recovery provides a yellow food scrap bin for compostable items and Sustainable Carmel is often onsite to answer any question regarding composting and recycling. Community Groups can also be seen at the Market working to improve local issues, as well as those with a larger impact.

Août 2 – 4
Watsonville Strawberry Festival
The Watsonville Strawberry Festival is the premier strawberry event in the United States. Join us for a weekend of family fun, nourriture, crafts and entertainment.

Août 4
The Annual Fiesta Dog Show
Each year this Family Dog Show at the Carmel Valley Community Park has gained increasing popularity in our community, with all types, ages and sizes of dogs.

Août 5 – 14
Pebble Beach Motoring Classic
The Motoring Classic will take participants on an epic 9 day journey to the ultimate destination in Pebble Beach. The Motoring Classic participant package includes all meals and accommodations and entertainment en route from Kirkland, Washington to Casa Palmero at Pebble Beach.

Août 9
Monterey Car Week Kick-off
Monterey Car Week kicks off with a remarkable collection of historic race cars lining Alvarado Street before racing at next week’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Come on down and meet the drivers of these beautiful examples of racing history while enjoying great music and giveaways. This is a great family-friendly event

Août 9 – 18
Monterey Car Week
Partout dans le comté de Monterey, voitures classiques prennent des rues, parcours de golf, parks and the world-renowned WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for Monterey Car Week 2024, visiteurs autour avec les voitures d'antan. Monterey Car Week features nearly 30 car events including car shows, courses, auctions, arts and lectures and concludes with the world famous Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

Août 10 – 11
Monterey Pre-Reunion & Hillclimb
Owners of more than 300 historic race cars, most of which are competing days later in the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, will get valuable track time in a more relaxed and less-crowded environment. A great chance for fans to get up close to these unique cars and watch them perform. The field is comprised of carefully selected entries by our selection committee. Sunday only gets better as the track brings back the Corkscrew Hillclimb competition and Community Day earlier this year. Fans can watch as historic race cars and fun exhibition vehicles race reverse course up the infamous Corkscrew. Promising entertainment at every corner, this event will have something for everyone!

Août 12 – 14
The Quail Rally 2024
En 2021, The Quail Rally will offer an opportunity to discover the back roads and spectacular vistas of Monterey County and its Pacific Ocean coastline, while raising funds for local and national charitable organizations. The Quail Rally brings together an upscale group of automobile cognoscenti and lifestyle connoisseurs, along with leading brands of today’s luxury industry.

Août 13
Classic Motorsports Kick-Off Car Show and Cruise-In
Time to kick-off Monterey Car Week with hundreds of classic sports and luxury cars, muscle cars, newer exotics, and classic 4x4s line up along 525 Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove to put on a show.

Août 14
Le Salon Little Car
The Little Car Show showcases 125 vehicles 25 years and older and features multi-marque mini, micro, steam, electric, and arcane vehicles of 1,800cc displacement or less from around the globe. A “special interest” category offers select limited production, custom, and modified vehicles.

Août 14
Motorworks Revival McCall
Join fellow car connoisseurs and airplane aficionados for an automotive party like no other. All ticket holders will enjoy an up-close look at some of the world’s most impressive airplanes and automobiles, gourmet culinary stations, an open bar with signature cocktails and non-alcoholic options, interactive entertainment, live DJ and dancing. Elevate your experience with access to Club Motorlux, an automotive oasis inside the legendary hangar at the Monterey Jet Center. Enjoy exclusive food, beverages, experiences and displays only available inside Club Motorlux.

Août 14 – 17
Rolex Reunion
The annual Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is a museum revving to life with hundreds of historic and period-correct race and sports cars from nearly every era. Yet, they are not for show. Drivers race them in corresponding run groups to enjoy them at speed and for the entertainment of thousands of enthusiastic visitors. Experience rare cars firing up, being worked on, and driven as they were originally intended. Add in family activities, refined food options and opportunities to rub shoulders with legendary drivers, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is a full sensory experience.

Août 15
Prancing Ponies All Woman Car Show 2023
Prancing Ponies provides an opportunity for women car enthusiasts to inspire girls to pursue careers in STEM. Proceeds help continue the work to ‘Create Women Leaders One Girl at a Time’. All car makes/models are welcome.

Août 15
Legends of the Autobahn
Sur 300 cars will be displayed throughout the village streets and community park in Carmel Valley Village along with exhibits from event sponsors. Spectators and participants will be able to enjoy the surrounding tasting rooms, restaurants, art galleries, and shopping, which will further enhance the Legend’s experience.

Août 15
Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance by Rolex
The Tour begins in Pebble Beach at 9 AM. Get a first glimpse of the beautiful cars that will grace the show field on Concours Sunday as the public is invited to view the Tour, without fee, at several points.

Août 15 – 17
RM Sotheby’s Monterey
The longest-standing tradition of the Monterey Car Week, view all lots online today. RM Sotheby’s flagship Monterey auction remains a pinnacle event year after year. Bid With Confidence. Industry Leader. Register to Bid Online.

Août 15 – 18
Pebble Beach RetroAuto
An automobilia enthusiast’s dream, Pebble Beach RetroAuto hosts a highly curated selection of rare collectibles and memorabilia from the automotive past, to the latest luxury goods and technological tools of the present.

Août 16
Grove Concours Rallye Auto Pacific
This annual event is geared for those enthusiasts who own, conduire, or appreciate all cars, especially Vintage, Classic, Sportif, and Luxury vehicles. The Rally Drive will begin at 5pm and follows a scenic route along the magnificent Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach shoreline. The Rally returns to downtown Pacific Grove.

Août 16
Werks Reunion Monterey
Expect to view a breathtaking array of Porsches at this free-to-spectators event, from rare classics to current models and everything in between. Display your own cherished car in model-specific Porsche Corrals or enter the Porsche Judged Field and compete to win in more than 20 prize categories. Membership in PCA is not required to participate in this celebration of Porsche automotive engineering.

Août 17
Italienne de la concurrence
Concorso Italiano is the world’s largest luxury and exotic Italian Car show. This is truly a multi-faceted luxury lifestyle event celebrating all things Italian; fashion, nourriture, vin, art, and products. Italienne de la concurrence, famous for the diverse and significant collection of exhibited Italian cars, is centered on as many as 1,000 Italien & exotic automobiles, Italian motorcycles. Those that attend also enjoy the Concorso Italiano Fashion Show, musical performances, and on-stage interviews with legendary automotive collectors and industry designers.

Août 17
Concours d’Lemons Rally
The Concours d’Lemons returns! An oil stain on the face of Monterey Auto Week, hoopties of all description will rattle and clatter their way to Seaside City Hall where they will be subjected to capricious celebrity judges and adoring fans. Thrift store sourced trophies will be awarded to cars in classes such as, Rust Belt American Junk, Needlessly Complex Italian and Most Dangerous. The show culminates in the presentation of the Worst of Show trophy and a car care gift pack from Griot’s Garage, the only car care products on the planet good enough to make these hoopties look nice. Classic Motorsports Magazine will be on hand to document the stupidity. The whole debacle is brought to you by Hagerty, so blame them.

Août 17
Exotics on Broadway
Since our inaugural event in 2015, EXOTICS has grown from a small gathering of exotic and supercars, to the largest single day attended event during Monterey Car Week. This unique event focused entirely on the Super, Hyper and Exotic Car phenomenon is once again partnering with the city of Seaside, CA in Monterey County, to be able to provide an even greater fan experience for years to come. With the city of Seaside as our foundation and continued spectator FREE ADMISSION, we have created a must-see event for auto enthusiasts of all ages, collectors, and new fans alike. A venue showcasing some of the rarest and exciting cars of our time, the owners and personalities behind them, alongside the manufacturers and companies that can take these cars to the next level in PERFORMANCE AND SHOWMANSHIP is the Exotics on Broadway experience.

Août 18
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
Every August, the most prized collector cars in the world compete for one of the most prestigious awards in the automotive industry — Best of Show at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. A tradition since 1950, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been an annual gathering of rare and antique automobiles, international automotive luminaries and motorcar enthusiasts from around the globe. The competition is held on the spectacular 18th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links, with cars lined up and down the hallowed fairway.

Août 18
Pebble Beach Classic Car Forum
This new forum brings to the fore some of the people who have created, or made history with, or spent a lifetime caring for these cars. We hope this forum is a place where we can come together as a community, tackle some of the tough questions facing the car world and draw knowledge from experts—all while encouraging new automotive enthusiasts.

Août 24 – 25
Sand City West End Celebration
Sand City is known for its funky, independent and artistic atmosphere, and nowhere is that more on display than the West End Celebration. The streets of Sand City shut down and become an open-air artists’ fair, showcasing truly unique works from artists throughout Monterey County. Resident Sand City artists also open their studio doors throughout the day, inviting the public to view both completed works and works in progress. Many studios also host live performances during the event.

Août 29
Twilight Cycling
What cyclist wouldn’t enjoy the thrill of a challenging 300-foot climb followed by an awe-inspiring descent? How about the fact that they can do this on a world-renowned race track? Twilight rides allow cyclists of all ages and experience levels the thrill of pedaling WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca’s 11-turn, 2.238-mile course. The ride is highlighted by the legendary Corkscrew that drops 59 feet in just 450 feet of track length. Please note that helmets are required. Track will be open to riders as soon as the renter is off track, and there is a $10 entry fee for each rider.

Août 29 – Septembre 2
Monterey County Fair
In addition to rousing family entertainment, manèges, jeux, and fun fair-food, the fair provides an opportunity to celebrate Monterey County’s unique history and heritage, from the aquaculture of Monterey’s coast to the abundant produce and wines from its agriculture, and the wonderful home art exhibits to the excitement of the livestock competitions.

Août 31
Cars & Coffee
The picturesque Laguna Seca Recreation Area is home to one of the most dynamic Cars & Coffee locations in America. Early risers will enjoy a relaxed and quiet environment as entrance begins at 7:30 am to enjoy a wide variety of automobiles and a delicious cup of coffee.