Festivals and Events
- Gala Week – a series of fundraising events, organised by the Lions, held during the last week in May.
- Festival of Music and Drama – the inaugural festival took place in August 2005, and is now an annual event.
- Budleigh Salterton Jazz Festival - held annually in April.
- Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival - held annually in September since 2009
- Active Budleigh Festival - sporting activities and events.
- Budstock - a bi-annual one-day festival featuring local bands, usually at the beginning of August.
- Sundown - an annual 3 day computer arts demoparty, held every September since 2005.
- Imperial College Operatic Society visits Budleigh Salterton for two weeks in late July / early August (every year since 1966) to perform a musical.
- Christmas Day swim on Christmas morning
- Boxing day raft race down the River Otter, residents and groups make rafts and launch them down the river from Otterton to Budleigh
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