Pink Lake Festival

Pink Lake is the Wörthersee's LGBTQ summer festival, a week of beach-club afternoons and evening parties at the end of August. It started in 2008, was held in Velden in the early 2010s (organisers reported 800 to 1,200 people a night in 2014), and in 2025 and 2026 ran in Pörtschach, 8 km from Velden, with the Pink Beach Club at the Promenadenbad Pörtschach as its base. The 2026 programme added a boat party, a roller disco and costume nights.

It is organised by Region Wörthersee-Rosental Tourismus. Dates for 2027 had not been announced in November 2026; the festival has run in the last week of August for years, so treat the dates shown here as an estimate. Velden's hotels are a short train ride away.