Hafengeburtstag

Hafengeburtstag 2015
Sea Cloud in Hamburg in 2011
Queen Mary 2 in Hamburg in 2011

Hafengeburtstag (lit. Harbour Birthday, Port Anniversary) is an annual public festival and funfair in Hamburg, Germany. It takes place mostly on the first weekend of May to celebrate the anniversary of the port of Hamburg, the largest in Germany. In 2019, the 830th birthday was celebrated and a new record was set; more than a million spectators, among them many tourists from abroad, visited the city.[1]