July 4th 2024 Fireworks, Events Around Falmouth

FALMOUTH, MA — Independence Day is fast approaching so it's time to find out where you can celebrate in and around Falmouth. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun.

To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going on in Falmouth and the surrounding areas.

July 4 Festivities For 2024

Falmouth Fireworks

July 4 starting at 8:30 p.m.

The Falmouth Fireworks display is back for 2024, with local police stating the display should start around 8:30 p.m. (dusk) and last about 30 minutes.

Traffic restrictions and a temporary parking ban will be in place ahead of the display, which will go off of Falmouth Heights Beach.

More information here.

Other events happening around Cape Cod include those taking place across the Barnstable Hyannis area, which includes parades, festivals and road races, plus the return of the collaboration between the Cape Symphony at Aselton Park that will feature a free live concert in Downtown Hyannis.

Read more: Barnstable 4th Of July Celebrations Announced For 2024

Today, Americans celebrate the birth of a new nation with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.

During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.

It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies —New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — to adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The first annual commemoration of the nation’s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.