The calendar of Vivero is secular, customs and religious.

Carnaval :
It´s the oldest Carnaval in Galicia. People go out into the streets for four days ( from Saturday to Tuesday ) to show their good humour and their cordiality to their visitors. This festivity finishes on Tuesday with a great procession of floats, groups... in its streets.

Holy Week :
It was declared as national tourist interest and considered as the best festivity in Galicia due to its religious icons and symbols of their faith and its processions. Vivero has a great number of cofradías such as the Virgin of the Rosario, the Christ of the Piety, the Seven Words and St. Cross.
Interesting are are well the processions such as the Encounter that show the Calvary of Christ with religious images, the Unnailed and St.Funeral that show the descent of the Cross to continue with the procession of St.Funeral, the Last Supper with the pasos of the supper, Horto, Ecce Homo, the Nazarene and the Virgin of the Dolores- Sufferings, the Passion, the Seven Words, the Piety and the Virgin on foot of the Cross, the silent procession in which utter silence portrays the despair of people that walk behind the Virgin of the Dolores-Sufferings to her return of the Calvary on the early hours of the morning.

Rapa das bestas :
This festivity takes place the first Sunday of July except that the first of July coincides on Sunday then it celebrates the second Sunday in the Buio Mountains. It´s an old tradition where people cut the horsehairs, brand the horses and break in them.

Local holidays :
It celebrates on August 15 in Saint Roque and the Virgin´s honour. It´s important the popular trade fair which is made up in CIOFF. There also are other events such as the popular craft trade fair, the ascent and the pilgrimage to the mountain of Saint Roque ( it takes place on August 16 in the small hours ) the day of the enormous heads in the Nogueiras, the cycle race, the championship of trap shooting....

The pilgrimage of Naseiro (The pilgrimage of the good meal):
It celebrates the fourth Sunday of August in the Naseiro, on the banks of the river Landro in the parish of Saint Peter. There are several days dedicated to the octopus, the broth, the sardines where people eat, sing and dance for four days.

Saint James´day :
It celebrates on July 25 at the port of Celeiro with a marine procession through the estuary of Vivero.