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; 36 years ago (1987-12-31)
Attendance	119,184 (2017)
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.^[1] Summernats, which is usually held at the start of the year, is the best known specialist car enthusiast festival in Australia, and an event which attracts many tourists to Canberra, bringing in excess of $20 million in economic benefit to the ACT economy.^[2] It has increasingly been promoted as an event for families.

The Summernats spectator attendance record was set in 2017, with 119,184 attendees. Summernats is held over a four-day period, 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 and modified cars.