Whale Events Calendar 2025/2026

Global Whale Events in 2025

 

• V International Symposium on Orcas (Orca Symposium)
  

  16th - 21th February 2025
  Tarifa, Spain
  www.orcasymposium.org/
  

 

• North Carolina Whales and Whaling Symposium
  

  21th March 2025
  Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, USA
  www.ncmaritimemuseumbeaufort.com/event/north-carolina-whales-and-whaling-symposium-2025-03-21/
  

 

• 36th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society (ECS)
  

  12th - 16th May 2025
  Azores, Portugal
  www.europeancetaceansociety.eu/36th-annual-conference-ponta-delgada-azores-portugal
  

 

• Great Kaikoura Whale Count
  

  1st - 30th June 2025
  Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand
  www.kori.org.nz/

 

• One Ocean Science Congress
  

  3rd - 6th June 2025
  Nice, France
  www.one-ocean-science-2025.org/
  

 

• 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference
  

  9th - 13th June 2025
  Nice, France
  www.unocnice2025.org/en/

 

• Synergies for Cetacean Monitoring in the Mediterranean 
  (Side Event at the UN Ocean Conference)
  

  11th June 2025
  Nice, France
  www.unocnice2025.org/en/

 

• International Workshop on Ship/Whale Collisions(Side Event at the UN Ocean Conference)
  

  16th June 2025
  Nice, France
  www.unocnice2025.org/en/

 

• Whale Conference – The Whale Museum 
  

  19th June 2025
  Húsavík, Iceland
  www.hvalasafn.is/en/hvalaradstefna/
  

 

• Whaleness Retreat Kaikōura 2025
  

  20th - 22nd June 2025
  Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand
  www.wearetohora.com/pages/whaleness-retreat-kaikoura-2025

 

• IWC Workshop on South American CEtacean Consercation Management Plans (CMPs)
  

  30th June - 5th July 2025
  Santos, Brazil
  www.iwc.int/events-and-workshops/workshop-on-the-iwc-conservation-and-management
  

 

• NZ Marine Sciences Society Conference

  7th -10th July 2025
  Marlborough, Aotearoa New Zealand
  www.nzmssconference.co.nz/

 

• Island Whale Festival

  11th - 13th July 2025
  Australia, Phillip Island
  www.islandwhales.com.au/

 

• Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference 2025

  13th - 17th July 2025
  Melbourne, Australia
  https://www.amsa2025.amsa.asn.au/
  

 

• Wild Whales Research & Community Science Symposium
  

  15th August 2025 
  Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada
  www.sunshinecoastcanada.com/event/wild-whales-research-and-community-science-symposium-at-the-gibsons-public-market/1647/
  

 

• World Ocean Summit Europe

  September 9th 2025
  Cascais, Portugal
  www.events.economist.com/world-ocean-summit-europe/
  

 

• International Conference on Marine Bioinvations (ICNB XII)

  6th - 9th October 2025
  Madeira, Portugal
  www.marinebioinvasions.info/
  

 

• 4th Humpback Whale World Congress

  15th - 19th October 2025
  Tadoussac, Québec, Canada
  www.hwwc.mg/

 

• 7th Meeting of the Australia/New Zealand Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy (ANZSCSMM)

  24th - 27th October 2025
  Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
  www.anzscsmm.wixsite.com/anzscsmm/home
  

 

• Right Whale Festival 2025

  1st - 2nd November 2025
  Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
  www.rightwhalefestival.com/
  

 

• PICES-2025 Annual Meeting

  8th - 14th November 2025
  Yokohama, Japan
  www.meetings.pices.int/meetings/annual/2025/pices/Program
  

 

• New Zealand Coastal Society Conference 2025

  18th - 21st November 2025
  Napier, Hawke’s Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand
  www.coastalsociety.org.nz/conferences/2025/

 

• Acoustics 2025 — Sounds of the Sunset Coast 
  

  12th-14th November 2025
  Joondalup, Western Australia
  www.acoustics.org.au/events/acoustics-2025/

 

• 3rd West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium
  

  25th-28th November 2025
  Brisbane, Australia
  www.westpacificmarinebiology.network/wpmbn/meetings/3rd-wpmbn/
  

 

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Global Whale Events in 2026

 

• Alaska Marine Science Symposium

  26th - 30th January 2026
  Anchorage, Alaska
  www.alaskamarinescience.org/
  

 

• The 20th Annual Whale Tales

  19th - 23rd February 2026
  Maui, Hawaii
  www.whaletrust.org/whaletales-2025/

 

• Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM26)
  

  22nd -27th February 2026
  Glasgow, Scotland
  www.agu.org/ocean-sciences-meeting
  

 

• Oceanology International 2026
  

  10th -12th March 2026
  London, United Kingdom
  www.oceanologyinternational.com/london/en-gb.html
  

 

• World Whaleness Day 
  

  15th March 2026
  Christchurch, New Zealand
  www.worldwhalenessday.org

 

• 37th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society (ECS)
  

  20th - 24th April 2026
  Dundee, Scotland, UK
  www.europeancetaceansociety.eu/annual-conference
  
  www.meetdundeecityregion.co.uk/attending/conferences/ecs2026
  

 

• 3rd Small Pelagic Fish (SPF-2-26) International Symposium
  

  4th - 8th May 2026
  La Paz, Mexico
  www.meetings.pices.int/meetings/international/2026/pelagic/scope
  

 

• Whaleness Retreat Kaikōura 2026
  

  10th-12th July 2026
  Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand
  Stay up to date via www.wearetohora.com

 

• 16th International Coral Reef Symposium
  

  19th - 24th July 2026
  Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
  www.icrs2026.nz

 

• 26th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals 
  

  3rd-9th October 2026
  San Juan, Puerto Rico
  www.smmconference.org/smm2026/