🎆 Where to Watch Fireworks in Connecticut This Summer (2026)
America is turning 250 years old, and Connecticut is going BIG with fireworks, festivals, concerts, carnivals, baseball games, tribute bands, and enough patriotic fun to fill your calendar through September.
Grab your lawn chairs, bug spray, and favorite red-white-and-blue shirt—here are some of the highlights!
Saturday, June 6
📍 Wethersfield Fireworks
- Cove Park
- Festivities start at 5 PM
- Fireworks around 9 PM
- Rescheduled from May 30
June Fireworks Highlights
Saturday, June 13
📍 Jewett City
- Great Griswold Get Together
- Veterans Memorial Park
- Fireworks at 9 PM
Saturday, June 20
📍 Milford
- Kickoff to Summer Fireworks
- Lisman Landing
- Fireworks at 9:15 PM
Friday, June 26
Choose your adventure:
🎆 Bridgeport – Barnum’s Skyblast at Seaside Park
🎆 Killingly – Red, White & Blue BBQ and Fireworks
🎆 Litchfield – Happy 250th Birthday America Celebration
🎆 New London – Madonna, Pat Benatar & Janis Joplin Tribute + Fireworks
🎆 Stafford Springs – Fireworks after racing at Stafford Motor Speedway
🎆 Windsor Locks – Annual Carnival Fireworks
Saturday, June 27
🎆 Branford
🎆 Coventry Lake
🎆 Middletown Fireworks Festival
🎆 Trumbull Day Fireworks
🎸 July 4th Weekend Fireworks
Thursday, July 2
🎆 Greenwich
🎆 Madison
🎆 Stratford
🎆 Westport
Friday, July 3
🎆 Fairfield
🎆 Norwich Harbor
🎆 Simsbury – Hartford Symphony’s Celebrate America Concert & Fireworks
🎆 West Haven – Savin Rock Fireworks Spectacular
Saturday, July 4
The BIG day!
🎆 Hartford – Bushnell Park fireworks over the Capitol Building
🎆 New Haven – East Rock Park
🎆 Waterbury – Holy Land USA
🎆 Bristol – Bristol Blues baseball and fireworks
🎆 Norwalk
🎆 Roxbury
🎆 Warren
🎆 Weston
🎆 Bethlehem
🎆 Middlebury (Quassy Amusement Park)
🎆 New Canaan
🎵 Fireworks + Live Music
July 17
📍 New London
- Elton John Tribute
- Ocean Beach Park
- Fireworks after the show
August 21
📍 New London
- ABBA Tribute Band: Dancing Dream
- Ocean Beach Park
- Fireworks after the show
🎆 Don’t Miss These Later Summer Shows
July 11
📍 Manchester – James “Dutch” Fogarty Celebration
📍 Putnam – Concert & Fireworks
📍 Westbrook Fireworks
📍 New London Celebrate New London Festival
July 12
📍 Enfield Celebrate Enfield
July 18
📍 Niantic Celebrate East Lyme
July 31
📍 Thomaston Fire Department Fireworks
August 8
📍 North Branford Potato & Corn Festival Fireworks
