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This is a calendar of events and festivals in the month of June.

Global

• 16 June 2007 Escape into the Park [1], Singleton Park, Swansea, UK. An annual pop and dance extravaganza. Capacity 25,000. Mid-day to midnight. £34:50.
• 19 June 2007 Dragon Boat Festival, Taiwan and Hong Kong

China

• Dragon Boat festival, in China and Taiwan

Finland

• Mid June: Midnight Sun Film Festival, [2] in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland

Hungary

• Mid-June: Tiszavirágzás, the natural spectacle of emerging mayflies, happens on the Tisza River

Italy

• 2nd: festival to mark the founding of the Republic (Italian: Festa della Repubblica) in Italy

South Africa

• Mid June: Comrades Marathon,[3], Durban to Pietermaritzburg (or downhill the other way round on odd numbered years)
• 16th: Youth day (Public holiday)
• Late June: National Arts Festival, +27 (0)46 603-1103, (email:info@nafest.co.za[4]) [5], Grahamstown

Sweden

• Late June: Midsummer Solstice (Swedish: Midsommar) celebrations held in Stockholm

United Kingdom

• Mid June: Isle of Wight Festival, [6] on the Isle of Wight
• Late June - early July: Wimbledon Tennis Championships [7] in London
• Late June: Midsummer Solstice Neo-pagans and druids gather at the ancient site of Stonehenge
• Late June: Glastonbury Festival, [[8] a huge weekend music festival in Glastonbury
• Late June: Royal Highland Show, [9] in Edinburgh
• Trooping the Colour, in London
• Escape into the Park [10], Swansea - one of Europe's largest urban dance and rock festivals.
• The Three Peaks Yacht Race[11], starts in Barmouth and visits Caernarfon, Whitehaven and Fort William. Runners from each boat ascend the highest mountains in Wales, England and Scotland en route.

United States of America

• Early June: Portland Rose Festival, [12] in Portland, Oregon
• Mid June: North Beach Festival, [13] in San Francisco, California
• Mid June: Rochester International Jazz Festival, [[14] in Rochester, New York