Events

Regular
Darkmoon Faire - Monthly, alternate factions for 1 week
Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza - Every Sunday
Battleground Holidays
Gurubashi Arena Event - Every 3 hours
Elemental Invasions - Sporadic
Annual Events
Lunar Festival - Jan 27 - Feb 14
Valentines Day - Feb 11 - Feb 15
Noblegarden - April 16 - May 20
Children's Week - May 1 - 7
Engineers' Explosive Extravaganza - July 4
All Hallows' Eve - Halloween (End October)
Feast of Winter Veil - December 15 - January 2
Darkmoon Faire
A gathering of the exotic from around the world and beyond, Silas Darkmoon has brought together the Darkmoon Faire as a celebration of the wondrous and mysterious found in Azeroth. While the Faire spends most of its time in parts unknown, they do stop from time to time in Mulgore and Elwynn forest. When the faire is on its way, barkers will stop by Orgrimmar and Ironforge to announce its arrival.

The Darkmoon Faire begins set up on the first Friday of each month, and continues for 3 days. On the early morning of Monday (4am server time), the Faire will begin and last for one week. It alternates between Goldshire in Elwynn Forest (A) and just outside Thunder Bluff in Mulgore (H) each month.

You can buy weird and wonderful things from the travelling vendors, such as the Darkmoon Ring, pickled Kodo Foot or the Darkmoon Special Reserve.

Faire Quests
Darkmoon Faire Sets
As you'd expect from these colourful characters they have a few tricks up their sleaves and will happily send you on some pretty involved quests.

There are four Darkmoon Faire Sets of cards scattered around Azeroth which you must collect. Each deck comprises eight cards - Ace to Eight. Once you have a deck you return it to Professor Thaddeus Paleo at the Faire for a reputation bonus and one of the following trinkets (of which you can carry 2 in trinket slots). Click the drop locations for maps of where each card is dropping.

Decks have been known to go for 500+ gold on some servers and you can also sell individual cards of a deck in the Auction House.

Tip from regular faire patron DrunkCajun:

"Don't bother collecting them (the decks) unless you come across an Ace for cheap. They're the hardest to find, apparently, and certainly the most expensive. I bought the Ace of Beasts for 250g and sold the deck for 400g. Turned a profit, but a narrow one. The deck I really made a chunk of change on was the Portals deck--I picked up the Ace for 25g. The deck sold for 800.

Still, like I said, don't bother collecting the cards until you have an ace. The rest are easy enough to come by. Without that, you'll just have a lot of used up bag space."

Darkmoon Prize Tickets
There are also Faire quests to collect varying quantities of tickets that will net you tasty prizes once handed in such as this Amulet of Darkmoon. You have to be level 60 to wear it but still, with stats like that it's worth the effort collecting the tickets. Or there's this handy 14 slot storage box.

Visit Yebb Neblegear who will tell you which items you should be collecting. Once collected return to him to exchange them for Darkmoon Tickets. The table below shows you what you can redeem and in return for how many Darkmoon Prize Tickets and the linked names will show you maps of where the items dropped.