✈️ Fly · TBMFiesta del Mar — 501 years of Santa Marta
Santa Marta, Colombia
City's 501st-birthday week: verbena, vallenato, big free concerts
Getting there: ~260nm → SKSM (Curaçao ~310nm OUT)
Fly-in day trips from Aruba
Day out, back by bedtime
This page finds what’s on in and near Aruba — real events within about an hour’s travel, so you can see the show and still sleep in your own bed. Every trip shows the door-to-door time each way, which airfield or ferry to use, and a ticket link.
✈️ Fly · 14
Summer 2026 · flight times assume a ~125 kt light single from TNCA.
The picks
Hand-researched — the events worth planning a day around.
✈️ Fly · TBM
✈️ Fly · TBMKany García (1 Aug) / Ricardo Montaner (8 Aug), Puerta de Oro
Barranquilla
Only confirmed arena shows on the Colombian coast in window
Getting there: ~295nm edge → SKBQ
✈️ Fly ★Kaya Kaya Art Week
Otrobanda, Willemstad, Curaçao
Street-art/urban-culture week in the murals district
Getting there: ~65nm/30 min
✈️ FlyPunda Vibes
Punda, Willemstad, Curaçao
Weekly open-air party + fireworks in historic Punda
Getting there: ~30 min
Coming up nearby
Looking further ahead — pulled nightly from live listings on neighbouring islands.
Antigua and Barbuda Carnival 2026
Curacao
Festival
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
✈️ Fly · listingsCalendar of Events on Bonaire
Bonaire
Event
Getting there: → TNCB (Flamingo International Airport)
Live Music: Playband
Curacao
Music
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
Mood Brunch Up
Curacao
Food
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival 2026 - Day 1 (Thursday)
World Trade Center, Curacao
Festival
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
Rubén Blades Fotografías Tour with Roberto Delgado Big Band
Curacao
Music
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
Curaçao Pride Parade
Curacao
Festival
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
Live Music: Miek Miek or Luis Alberto
Curacao
Music
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
FUIK boat party
Curacao
Art
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
Festuris
Curacao
Event
Getting there: → TNCC (Hato International Airport)
Reachable from Aruba
- Curacao — ✈️ ~32 min (TNCC, 66 nm)
- Bonaire — ✈️ ~51 min (TNCB, 106 nm)
- US Virgin Islands — ✈️ ~3 h 39 min (TIST, 455 nm)
- British Virgin Islands — ✈️ ~3 h 49 min (TUPJ, 477 nm)
- Grenada — ✈️ ~3 h 53 min (TGPY, 485 nm)
- St Kitts — ✈️ ~4 h 6 min (TKPK, 512 nm)
- Sint Maarten — ✈️ ~4 h 10 min (TNCM, 520 nm)
- Montserrat — ✈️ ~4 h 11 min (TRPG, 522 nm)
- Anguilla — ✈️ ~4 h 14 min (TQPF, 529 nm)
- Dominica — ✈️ ~4 h 15 min (TDCF, 531 nm)
- St Lucia — ✈️ ~4 h 17 min (TLPC, 536 nm)
- Antigua — ✈️ ~4 h 25 min (TAPA, 552 nm)
- Turks and Caicos — ✈️ ~4 h 34 min (MBPV, 570 nm)
- Panama City — ✈️ ~4 h 48 min (MPMG, 601 nm)
- Barbados — ✈️ ~4 h 57 min (TBPB, 618 nm)
Notes & what didn’t make it
NEGATIVES: Curaçao North Sea Jazz 3-5 Sep (outside window — J Balvin, Toto); Bonaire nothing Jul-Aug (Regatta Oct); no inter-ABC ferries; Venezuela excluded. NEGATIVES: Cartagena ~330nm OUT; Punta Cana ~365nm OUT; Riohacha festival ended 28 Jun; Venezuela excluded.
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