Sharjah Heritage Days fills the restored courtyard houses and alleys of the Heart of Sharjah — the largest heritage restoration project in the Gulf — with Emirati crafts, cooking, poetry, weaving and boat building, alongside pavilions from a long list of invited countries.
No attendance figure is collected in this pass.
The Institute for Heritage that runs it is a serious documentary body, and the festival is the public face of an archive rather than a themed market.
The dates shift each year to sit clear of Ramadan, which — as with Sikka in Dubai — is the lunar calendar quietly determining the Gregorian one. Entry is free.
PlanningA March–April window in the heritage quarter, scheduled around Ramadan each year.
Dates
Season
Computed from the recurrence rule we record for this entry, not copied from a listing. A date marked ~ comes from a calendar conversion and the observance may fall a day or two either side.