- Prague runs two major tea festivals: Prague Tea Fest, held 21–22 February 2026 at DDM Spektrum in Karlín (11:00–18:00), and Čajomír Fest, whose 18th edition ran 22–23 August 2026 at the Lesní divadlo forest amphitheatre in Řevnice.
- Prague Tea Fest door tickets have been 400 CZK for one day and 600 CZK for the weekend, cash only at the entrance; Čajomír Fest presale tickets started at 350 CZK for one day, rising to 550 CZK at the gate.
- Expect tasting stalls, handmade teaware you can pick up and weigh in your hand, and workshops that in 2026 included Japanese tea growers, a gyokuro masterclass and an Urasenke tea-school demonstration.
- Early listings point to 27–28 February 2027 for the fifth Prague Tea Fest; confirm dates on the official site before booking travel, as the program is typically finalised in the months before the event.
Prague earns its place on the tea map twice a year. In deep winter, Prague Tea Fest fills a hall in Karlín with tasting stalls, potters and visiting tea growers; in late August, Čajomír Fest sets up dozens of open-air tea rooms for a weekend that now takes place in a forest amphitheatre outside the city. Both belong on any European tea calendar, and both work well as anchors for a city break.
This guide covers the confirmed dates, ticket prices in Czech crowns, venues, transport and what actually happens inside each festival, drawing on the organisers’ published details and first-hand accounts from the 2026 editions. For how Prague’s events compare with Boseong, Uji and the rest of the global circuit, start with our roundup of the world’s best tea festivals.
Prague’s Two Tea Festivals at a Glance
| Prague Tea Fest | Čajomír Fest | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 dates | 21–22 February 2026 | 22–23 August 2026 |
| Venue | DDM Spektrum, Karlínské náměstí 316/7, Prague 8 (indoor) | Lesní divadlo Řevnice, a forest amphitheatre outside Prague (open-air) |
| Hours | 11:00–18:00 both days | Two full days; tent camping on the meadow beside the grounds |
| Door price | 400 CZK one day / 600 CZK weekend, cash only | 550 CZK one day / 990 CZK two days (presale from 350/700 CZK) |
| Character | Winter teaware market with workshops | Summer tea-room village with a stage program |
| Editions | Four since 2023 | 18th edition in 2026 |
The short version: Prague Tea Fest is the winter, indoor, market-style event, the one to visit if you want to buy teaware and taste with growers. Čajomír Fest is the summer, outdoor, sit-down-and-stay event, closer in spirit to a small music festival where every stall is a tea room.
Prague Tea Fest: the Winter Market in Karlín
Dates, venue and hours
The 2026 edition, the festival’s fourth since it launched in 2023, ran on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 February from 11:00 to 18:00 at DDM Spektrum, Karlínské náměstí 316/7, in the Karlín district of Prague 8 — the venue and dates published at pragueteafest.com. Earlier editions used the same hall: the 2025 festival ran 22–23 February and the 2024 edition 24–25 February, so the pattern is a fixed venue and a movable late-February weekend.
Entry has stayed deliberately simple. Tickets are sold at the entrance in cash, in Czech crowns only: 400 CZK for a single day or 600 CZK for the whole weekend. An online presale for 2026 ran through the Czech ticketing platform smsticket.cz and closed before the event, so treat the cash desk as the default and stop at an ATM beforehand.
What happens inside
The organiser describes the festival as a place to share tea, learn about processing and its effects on body and mind, and meet other tea people — and, unusually among European tea events, as a place to choose new teaware by touch: to pick a pot up, feel its weight and shape, and decide whether it sits comfortably in your hand before you pay. Stalls mix working potters with importers and growers, so the same aisle can sell you the tea and the pot to brew it in.
The 2026 exhibitor list backed that up. According to a detailed recap by the Global Japanese Tea Association, whose members attended in numbers, Japanese growers Yoshida Chaen from Ibaraki Prefecture, known for wakoucha and oolongs, and Ikedoki from Nagasaki Prefecture poured side by side: sencha, hojicha and tamaryokucha next to experimental wakoucha and tamaryokucha powders. Hokkaido-born Mariko Chiba showed blue-and-white teaware, Studio Shifuku displayed handmade silk pouches for tea caddies, and Rishe Tea offered organic Japanese teas spanning Gifu, Shiga and Kagoshima. Visitors flew in from as far as Canada and Japan.
Workshops run alongside the market. In 2026 the Urasenke school of Prague gave a guided demonstration of an outdoor winter tea gathering using a chabako travel box; there was a gyokuro masterclass — our guide to gyokuro makes useful preparation — plus a sencha-versus-matcha presentation, a tasting of rare Japanese teas, and a chakabuki blind-tasting game in which twenty participants tried to identify a sencha, a kamairicha and a tamaryokucha poured unlabelled.
If you plan to shop, arrive at the 11:00 opening: handmade teaware is stocked in ones and twos, and the widest choice is in the first hours. Our tea souvenirs guide covers how to judge authenticity and how to get fragile purchases home intact.
The festival week around the city
Prague Tea Fest has repeatedly extended beyond its market weekend. In recent editions the organiser has run a full festival week — in 2024, from 21 to 28 February — with workshops, tastings and presentations hosted by tea rooms across the city. In 2026 the satellite program included a tea-farm workshop at Lao Teahouse with the Yoshida Chaen growers and an evening at the Meetea tea room devoted to the teas of Mandokoro, a small and staunchly traditional Japanese growing area, while the Tea Mountain shop rounded out visiting drinkers’ itineraries. The depth of Prague’s tea-room scene is the quiet advantage here; it stands comparison with anywhere in our guide to the world’s best tea cities, and it means the festival effectively runs city-wide for a week even though the hall itself opens for only two days.
Tickets and Prices in Czech Crowns
| Ticket | Advance price | At the door | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prague Tea Fest, one day | Presale via smsticket.cz (2026 presale closed before the event) | 400 CZK | Cash only at the entrance |
| Prague Tea Fest, both days | Presale via smsticket.cz | 600 CZK | Cash only at the entrance |
| Čajomír Fest, one day (adult) | 350 CZK early presale; 500 CZK closer to the festival | 550 CZK | Online at cajomir.cz |
| Čajomír Fest, two days (adult) | 700 CZK early presale; 900 CZK closer to the festival | 990 CZK | Online at cajomir.cz |
| Čajomír Fest, child (one day) | 150 CZK | 150 CZK | Priced for children over 150 cm tall |
Two practical notes. First, the Prague Tea Fest cash rule is strict enough that the organiser prints it in the ticket information: 400 or 600 CZK, crowns in hand. Second, Čajomír Fest rewards early planning. Its 2026 presale opened at 350 CZK for a one-day adult ticket and 700 CZK for two days, stepped up to 500 and 900 CZK in the online shop as the festival approached, and topped out at 550 and 990 CZK at the gate.
Čajomír Fest: the Summer Forest Festival
Čajomír Fest is the older institution. The 2026 festival marked its 18th edition as an international meeting of tea lovers, and its first at a new venue: the Lesní divadlo, a forest theatre in Řevnice, a small town southwest of Prague. The organisers billed it at cajomir.cz as the largest open-air tea room of the year, a natural amphitheatre among mature trees converted for one August weekend into a village of tea stalls.
The format differs from the winter market. Dozens of festival tea rooms pour continuous guided tastings of Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese and Indian teas, served by experienced tea masters who talk through each tea’s origin, vintage and processing as they brew. Around them sit sellers of tea and herbs, including direct importers and small growers, plus makers of tea ceramics, glass, wood and textile goods. A main stage carries music, theatre, author readings and talks by travellers returning from the tea regions, and the food stalls skew deliberately healthy. By the organiser’s count the festival draws visitors from across the Czech Republic and from abroad, including England, France, Spain, Poland and Austria. If one day is not enough, you can pitch a tent on the meadow beside the grounds and stay the night; the two-day ticket exists for a reason.
Getting to Řevnice from Prague
The venue swap did not complicate the journey. Řevnice sits on the S7 suburban rail line toward Beroun, with trains every 30 minutes at weekends; the organiser’s own advice is not to bother planning a departure, because another train is always coming. The ride takes about 34 minutes from Praha hlavní nádraží, the main station, or 25 to 29 minutes from Smíchovské nádraží, and from Řevnice station it is roughly a 15-minute walk to the Lesní divadlo grounds. The train, not the car, is the intended approach.
Planning Ahead: 2027 Dates and a Third Prague Tea Event
The question most readers arrive with: when is the next one? Prague Tea Fest has held a late-February weekend every year since 2023 — 24–25 February in 2024, 22–23 February in 2025, 21–22 February in 2026 — always at DDM Spektrum. As of late August 2026, early festival listings point to 27–28 February 2027 for the fifth edition, but the organiser had not yet published a full 2027 program; confirm on the official site before booking flights, and expect door tickets to follow the established cash-only pattern.
Čajomír Fest publishes its next dates, presale and exhibitor registration on its own site, and the 2026 cycle opened discounted presale months ahead, so check in early in the year if you want the cheap tickets. Prague now has a third date on the calendar too: a Euro Tea Expo is listed for 14–15 November 2026 in the city, per the Tea Infusiast festival calendar, worth checking if a winter trip cannot wait for February.
Tips for First-Timers
- Bring cash in crowns. Prague Tea Fest sells door tickets in cash only, 400 CZK for a day and 600 CZK for both, and small stallholders everywhere are easier with exact change.
- Arrive at the 11:00 opening. Handmade teaware is stocked in small numbers, and the widest choice is gone by mid-afternoon of the first day.
- Pick your workshop before you go. Capacity is small — the 2026 chakabuki blind tasting took twenty participants — so decide on your must-do session and head there first.
- For Čajomír Fest, price out the two-day ticket plus tent. The presale difference between one day and two was only 350 CZK, and the festival is built for lingering.
- Learn the word čajovna, meaning tea room. Prague’s are open year-round, and the winter festival’s satellite events happen inside them.
Related Guides
- Types of Tea: Complete Beginner’s Guide — sort your wakoucha from your tamaryokucha before you go.
- How to Taste Tea Like a Pro — a method for a day of back-to-back festival tastings.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is Prague Tea Fest 2027?
Early festival listings point to 27–28 February 2027 for the fifth Prague Tea Fest, though the organiser had not published a full 2027 program as of late August 2026. The festival has run on a late-February weekend at DDM Spektrum in Karlín every year since 2023, so plan around that window and confirm final dates at pragueteafest.com before booking travel.
How much do Prague Tea Fest tickets cost?
Prague Tea Fest tickets have cost 400 CZK for one day or 600 CZK for the full weekend, sold at the entrance in cash only. An online presale for the 2026 edition ran on smsticket.cz and closed before the festival. Čajomír Fest is priced separately: 350 to 550 CZK for a one-day adult ticket and 700 to 990 CZK for two days, depending on how early you buy.
What is the difference between Prague Tea Fest and Čajomír Fest?
Prague Tea Fest is a winter indoor market, held each February at DDM Spektrum in Karlín and focused on tasting stalls, handmade teaware and workshops. Čajomír Fest is a summer open-air festival — its 18th edition ran 22–23 August 2026 at the Řevnice forest amphitheatre — built around dozens of pop-up tea rooms, stage performances and optional tent camping beside the grounds.
How do I get to Čajomír Fest in Řevnice without a car?
Take the S7 suburban train from Prague toward Beroun, which runs every 30 minutes at weekends. The journey takes about 34 minutes from Praha hlavní nádraží or 25 to 29 minutes from Smíchovské nádraží, and the walk from Řevnice station to the Lesní divadlo festival grounds takes about 15 minutes. The organiser actively recommends arriving by train rather than driving.
Do I need to speak Czech to enjoy the Prague tea festivals?
No. Both festivals host international crowds: the 2026 Prague Tea Fest drew visitors from as far as Canada and Japan, with Japanese growers among the exhibitors and its official site published in English, while Čajomír Fest reports guests from England, France, Spain, Poland and Austria. Bring cash in crowns, point at what interests you, and the tea does most of the talking.