The honest answer to "is there a furry convention near me" depends entirely on where you are sitting when you ask it. If you live in the American Midwest, two of the three largest conventions in the world are inside a day's drive. If you live in most of Africa, the nearest one is a flight, a visa, and a fortnight of annual leave.
Nobody selling you a list wants to say that part out loud. So this guide is a method instead of a list: how to search by region, how to set a travel radius you will actually honour, and what to do when the nearest con is genuinely too far. We publish 253 conventions across 42 countries plus two online, and 198 other events, so most of the answers below come straight out of that data.
Open the map first. Our convention map puts every published con on a single pannable world view. Click a pin and you land on that con's full guide. A ranked list of ten blue links cannot show you that the second result is forty minutes closer than the first, and that is usually the only fact you care about.
Then set a radius and hold yourself to it. Decide your limit before you start browsing. Four hours in a car, a domestic flight, an international one: pick one and write it down. People who skip this step fall in love with a con on another continent and then spend a month talking themselves out of it.
Then check the month. A con being close is worthless if it lands the week of your sister's wedding. The upcoming list sorts everything by date so you can see what is genuinely next rather than what is merely nearby.
Verify on the con's own site last. Dates move, venues change, and small cons go quiet without announcing it. More on that below.
The fandom does not distribute itself evenly, and pretending otherwise sets people up to feel cheated.
Of our 253 published conventions, 87 sit in North America and 75 in Europe. Asia holds 65 across 11 countries, driven mostly by mainland China, Japan and Taiwan. Latin America has 16 across six countries. Oceania has 7. Africa has one, South Afrifur in Johannesburg. The remaining two run online.
So the practical definition of "near" shifts with your postcode. A furry in Ohio can reach Anthrocon in Pittsburgh, which drew 20,618 attendees in 2026, and Midwest FurFest in Rosemont, which drew 16,925 in 2025, without ever booking a flight. A furry in Perth is looking at a domestic flight minimum. A furry in Nairobi is looking at an international one.
Most attendees land on a three-to-six-hour drive as the ceiling for a regular con, and one flight a year for the big one they actually care about. Set your expectations there and the map gets much easier to read.
The densest region on the map. The largest cons are spaced across the year rather than bunched, with Further Confusion in January, Furry Weekend Atlanta in May, Anthrocon in July, Megaplex in August and Midwest FurFest in December, so a US or Canadian attendee has a big con available in most parts of the calendar. Below that tier sits a long tail of regional cons in most states and provinces. Our North America 2026 roundup has the full list with dates.
Seventy-five conventions spread across twenty countries, which makes Europe the most internationally varied region even though it holds fewer cons than North America. Eurofurence in Hamburg drew 6,455 in 2025 and is the closest thing the continent has to an annual reunion. Cheap intra-European rail and budget airlines mean "near you" stretches further here than the raw distances suggest. See the Europe 2026 roundup.
Sixty-five conventions across eleven countries, and the fastest-growing region we track. Infurnity in Taichung went from 62 attendees in 2015 to 3,251 in 2025. JMoF in Toyohashi reached 2,524 in 2026. The Asia-Pacific roundup covers the region in detail.
Sixteen conventions across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Peru. Confuror in Guadalajara is the regional anchor at 2,635 attendees in 2025. Badge prices sit well below North American and European equivalents, with a Confuror General badge at 1,299 MXN against $80 for Anthrocon, which makes the region worth a look even if you live outside it.
Seven conventions across Australia and New Zealand, led by FurDU on the Gold Coast at 2,086 in 2025, and one in South Africa. If you live in either region, budget for domestic flights as the normal case rather than the exception.
A convention is the most expensive and most logistically demanding way to meet furries in your area, and it is also the rarest. Your nearest con runs once a year. Your nearest furmeet might run once a month. Most articles on this topic skip that comparison entirely.
The eight formats set side by side compares what each one costs and who can attend, which is the decision worth making before you start searching at all. Once you know which one you want, how to find furry raves, fursuit walks and furmeets near you covers the search itself.
We publish 198 events across 33 countries, and they break down like this:
| Type | Listed | What it actually is |
|---|---|---|
| Fursuit walks | 22 | A group walks a park or city centre in suit. Free, outdoors, a few hours. |
| Furdances | 29 | A club night built around furry DJs and a dance floor. |
| Club nights | 27 | A recurring furry-friendly night at a regular venue. |
| Furmeets | 56 | A pub, a cafe, a park. The lowest-stakes option there is. |
| Festivals | 22 | Festivals and camps, almost half of them in Europe, with the rest in the Americas, Asia and Australia. |
| Bowling | 10 | Exactly what it says. Mostly a North American format. |
| Picnics | 6 | Seasonal, family-friendly, cheap. |
| Game nights | 3 | Board games and consoles at a fixed venue. |
| Everything else | 23 | Markets, a prom, a craft workshop, a pool social, coffee meets and a photo walk, among others. |
Germany alone accounts for 38 of those 198 events, more than any country except the United States at 58. If you live in the DACH region and have been telling yourself there is nothing local, check the events list before you conclude that.
A fursuit walk is the single best first outing in the fandom. It is free, it lasts an afternoon, you can leave whenever you want, and nobody expects you to own a suit to come along. Compare that to a four-day convention with a badge, a hotel and a flight, and it is obvious which one a nervous first-timer should try.
Conventions bunch up badly. Across our 233 dated 2026 conventions, August holds 34, July 29 and October 28, while December holds 9 and January holds 8.
That clustering cuts both ways. July to October gives you the most options and the worst calendar conflicts, and two cons you want will sometimes fall on the same weekend in different countries. Winter gives you fewer options and a much better shot at a hotel room at a sane price.
The 2027 calendar is still filling in. We hold 112 confirmed 2027 dates so far, weighted toward the cons that announce early, which is why the 2027 planning guide is worth a look if you are booking travel a long way out.
Every listing site drifts, including ours. Before you spend money, do these three checks:
If a con looks dead and you would like us to check, our convention pages carry the dates and status we have verified, and we take corrections.
Sometimes the map gives you a genuinely bad answer. That is worth naming rather than working around.
Three things actually help. Pick one flight a year and make it count, using our budgeting guide to work out the real total rather than just the badge price. Try an online convention, since Furality runs inside VRChat and removes travel from the equation completely. Start something small locally, because a furmeet can be four people in a coffee shop and needs no budget, no venue hire and no committee.
If you are weighing up which con deserves that one flight, our decision guide walks through size, region, budget and vibe. And if it will be your first, read the first convention survival guide before you book anything.
Browse our complete calendar with dates, locations, and details for every upcoming furry convention.
View Full CalendarProbably within a day's travel if you live in North America, Europe or Asia, where 227 of our 253 published conventions sit. Elsewhere it usually means a flight. The fastest way to find out is the convention map, which shows every published con as a pin you can click through to a full guide.
Three to six hours by car is the common ceiling for a regular con, with one longer trip a year for a larger one. Decide your own limit before you start browsing, because the map will happily show you something wonderful on another continent.
A fursuit walk or a furmeet. Both are typically free or close to it, run for a few hours instead of four days, and need no hotel, no flight and no fursuit. We list 22 fursuit walks and 56 furmeets, plus 27 club nights, on our events page.
August, with 34 of our 233 dated 2026 conventions, followed by July at 29 and October at 28. January and December are the quietest at 8 and 9, which also makes them the easiest months to get an affordable hotel room.
No. Most attendees at any convention do not own one. Fursuiters are the most visible part of a con and a small minority of the room.
Check our events list first, then the con or event's own social channels for a regional group. Many cities run a Telegram or Discord group that organises meets far more often than anything a listing site captures. Our guide to finding furry events near you walks through the whole search.
Convention counts, country distribution, event-type counts and monthly date distribution were derived from the FurryGuides content corpus on 10 October 2026 and cover published listings only. These figures change as conventions are added and dates are confirmed.
Attendance figures come from each convention's own post-con reporting. Verify any of them at the source:
The full attendance record for every convention we track is on the convention statistics page.
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