Global Village is a permanent site on the Dubai–Al Ain road that opens for the cool half of the year and closes for the hot one: around ninety country pavilions selling crafts, textiles and food, a funfair, stunt shows and stages, drawing a very large and overwhelmingly regional and resident audience.
Season 29, in 2025, drew 10,500,000 guests. The figure belongs to the season entire — mid-October to late April — and not to any single day, which matters because calendars that file Global Village under its October opening tend to print the season's number against that one date.
It is the clearest single expression of how the UAE calendar actually works. The season runs mid-October to late April — the months in which being outdoors is possible — and shuts for the months in which it is not. Everything else on this calendar is arranged around the same division.
For a visitor it is also the cheapest and most direct access to the country's demographic reality: the audience is the resident population rather than the hotel one.
PlanningA six-month season from October to April — not an event but the entire outdoor season in one place.
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