Summernats

Summernats
Burnout at Summernats in 2005
Genre	Car festival
Date(s)	January
Frequency	Annually
Location(s)	Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC), Canberra
Inaugurated	31 December 1987; 37 years ago (1987-12-31)
Attendance	130,000+ (2025)
Website	http://www.summernats.com.au/

Summernats (a portmanteau of "Summer" and "National"), is an annual car festival held in Canberra, Australia since 1987, except 2021 due to COVID.^[1] Summernats, which is usually held at the start of the year, is a specialist car enthusiast festival in Australia, and an event which attracts tourists to Canberra. It has increasingly been promoted as an event for families.

The Summernats spectator attendance record was set in 2025, with 130,000+ attendees. Summernats is held over a four-day period (Plus 2 days before the event for Vehicle inspections), with many events, with prizes in competitions such as for burnouts, parades of cars around the track, fireworks at night and two outdoor concerts held on Friday and Saturday nights. The festival features many vehicles with airbrushed artwork, and restored, classic and modified cars.