What you must learn about Cebu’s Sinulog 2026

The Sinulog Grand Parade can be on January 18 on the Cebu Metropolis Sports activities Middle

CEBU, Philippines – Cebu’s grandest competition is again once more for 2026 and is anticipated to herald hundreds of individuals from across the nation to the guts of the province, Cebu Metropolis.

This 12 months’s Sinulog competition will carry the theme, “United in Religion and Love” with the normal tagline “One Beat, One Dance, One Imaginative and prescient.” 

The yearly celebration consists of a sequence of merrymaking actions like road parades, pageants, and dance competitions. The entire occasion is completed in tandem with the Fiesta Señor celebration, which is in honor of the Little one Jesus, throughout the month of January.

“What awaits is greater than a competition. It’s a wave of ardour, tradition, and group prepared to brush throughout Cebu as soon as extra,” the Sinulog Basis Integrated (SFI), the competition’s organizer, wrote in a social media put up on December 3, 2025.

Cebu Metropolis Councilor Dave Tumulak, one of many SFI’s government committee members, informed Rappler on Friday, January 2, that your complete funds for the celebration is P90 million.

The official opening of the celebration can be held on January 9. On that day, a gap salvo mass can be held on the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu at 2:30 pm. The launching parade will happen from the basilica to the Fuente Osmeña Circle after which to the Cebu Metropolis Sports activities Middle (CCSC), the place the launching program can be performed.

The grand parade and predominant competition day will occur on January 18 on the CCSC. There can be two ticket choices for these focused on watching the occasion from the venue: Gen Advert Inexperienced and Gen Advert Yellow.

For P1,500, attendees can get the Gen Advert Inexperienced ticket that provides precedence seating nearer to the middle of the CCSC’s grandstand or spectator seating space. For P1,000, attendees can get the Gen Advert Yellow ticket that also supplies them with the primary view of the occasion whereas seated farther from the middle of the grandstand. 

This 12 months, there are 20 contingents competing within the Sinulog Grand Parade and Ritual Dance Showdown occasion, specifically:

Out-of-City Contingents

1. Kalivungan Competition – Province of Cotabato
2. El Pueblo Cultural Dance Troupe – Zamboanga Metropolis Excessive Faculty (Foremost)
3. Hudyaka Sa Bais: Competition of Harvest – Bais Metropolis
4. Tabaco Faculty – Albay
5. Bukluran Dance Troupe – Antipolo Metropolis
6. Muntinlupa Metropolis Performing Arts Guild
7. Talon-Talon Nationwide Excessive Faculty – Hermosa Competition
8. Maria Clara L. Lobregat Nationwide Excessive Faculty – Zamboanga Hermosa Competition
9. Kabilin Mindanaw Artist Guild of Malita – Province of Davao Occidental
10. Tagbilaran Metropolis Contingent
11. Tribu Sibugaynon – Zamboanga Sibugay
12. Pilar Youth Dance Firm (P.Y.D.C.) – Las Piñas Metropolis

Cebu Contingents

1. Tribu Hinulawan – Toledo Metropolis
2. Carcar Metropolis
3. Alcoy Siloy Competition
4. Mandaue Metropolis
5. Sinulog Sa Carmen
6. Tribu Septimo – Municipality of Dumanjug
7. Moalboal Dancing Corals
8. Tribu Asturias Dumdumon Ta

The grand parade will even function visitor performers from Danao Metropolis, Cebu Metropolis, and Bacolod Metropolis from Negros Occidental.

There will even be a Sinulog sa Dakbayan (Sinulog within the Metropolis), a separate dance competitors that options the skills of Cebu Metropolis’s barangays and their dance teams. This occasion can be held at 3 pm on January 10 on the CCSC. 

Take a look at the official schedule of occasions under:

– Rappler.com