Most stamp show calendars online are out of date, and the ones that are not out of date are usually incomplete. While building this page we found club sites still advertising shows from 2024, a regional federation calendar that stopped updating in 2025, three national listings that returned nothing at all, and one organizer whose own current-show page still displays the 2024 edition under a 2026 heading.

So we built ours from the sources with money riding on being right, which means dealer association schedules, where turning up on the wrong weekend costs somebody a table fee. Every show below carries a date checked against one of those, and where two sources disagree the listing says so rather than picking one and hoping. The page is reviewed monthly, and the date of the last update sits above the state listings.

The next ten shows

Dates	Show	City, State
November 6-7, 2026	AAPEX	Ann Arbor, MI
November 7-8, 2026	SACAPEX	Sacramento, CA
November 8, 2026	Van Nuys Stamp Show	Van Nuys, CA
November 13-14, 2026	Mid-Cities Stamp Club Expo	Grapevine, TX
November 14, 2026	Oshkosh Stamp Bourse	Oshkosh, WI
November 14-15, 2026	MSDA Indianapolis Stamp Show	Lawrence, IN
November 20-22, 2026	CHICAGOPEX	Itasca, IL
November 21, 2026	Black River Stamp Club Annual Show	Elyria, OH
November 29, 2026	The Anaheim Stamp Show	Anaheim, CA
December 4-5, 2026	FLOREX	DeLand, FL

How the shows below are organized

Shows are grouped by state rather than by date, because a reader looking for a show is usually looking for one within driving distance, and inside each state the shows then run in date order.

Recurring bourses account for a large share of the listings, since the Texas Stamp Dealers Association runs a circuit across Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Grapevine while two California bourses in Van Nuys and Anaheim run on a near-monthly schedule, so each of those is listed as a single entry carrying every scheduled date rather than as one entry per date.

Stamp shows by state

Last updated on November 3, 2026

Can’t find your state? That means we don’t have any stamp show information for your state yet. That doesn’t mean there are no stamp shows there. Try a few more searches online to see if there are any stamp shows near you.

Know about a show that is not listed? Send us the date, the city and a link through the support form and we will add it. The calendar only works because collectors tell us what we are missing.

Alabama

HUNTSPEX, June 5-6, 2027. Huntsville. 58th annual.

Arizona

Arizona National Stamp Show, February 5-7, 2027. Mesa. DoubleTree by Hilton Phoenix Mesa

California

Van Nuys Stamp Show, November 8, 2026 and December 6, 2026. Van Nuys. Recurring monthly bourse
The Anaheim Stamp Show, November 29, 2026 and December 20, 2026. Anaheim. Recurring monthly bourse
SACAPEX, November 7-8, 2026. Sacramento. One source gives November 8-9. Confirm with the organizer before traveling.
PENPEX, December 5-6, 2026. Redwood City.
WESTPEX, April 23-25, 2027. Burlingame. San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront

Colorado

Rocky Mountain Stamp Show, May 7-9, 2027. Aurora.

Florida

FLOREX, December 4-5, 2026. DeLand.
Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition, January 15-17, 2027. Sarasota.

Georgia

Southeastern Stamp Expo, January 22-24, 2027. Peachtree Corners. Hilton Atlanta Northeast

Illinois

CHICAGOPEX, November 20-22, 2026. Itasca. The Westin Chicago Northwest. More than 75 dealers. The organizer’s current-show page still displays the 2024 dates, so confirm before booking.

Indiana

MSDA Indianapolis Stamp Show, November 14-15, 2026. Lawrence.

Iowa

MSDA Quad Cities Stamp Show. Durant. The 2026 show was held October 23-24. The next date is not published yet.

Maine

MAIPEX. Winslow. The 2026 show was held October 17. The 2027 date is not published yet.

Maryland

BALPEX, September 10-12, 2027. Linthicum Heights. BWI Marriott Airport. 89th annual.

Michigan

AAPEX, November 6-7, 2026. Ann Arbor.
Great American Stamp Show, August 24-27, 2028. Grand Rapids. The annual APS national show.

Missouri

MSDA St. Louis Stamp Show. St. Charles. The 2026 show was held October 3-4. The next date is not published yet.
St. Louis Stamp Show, March 19-21, 2027. St. Louis.

New Jersey

NOJEX. Hasbrouck Heights. The 2026 show was held October 2-4. The 2027 date is not published yet.

New Mexico

Great American Stamp Show, August 19-22, 2027. Albuquerque. Albuquerque Convention Center. The annual APS national show. Admission free.

Ohio

Black River Stamp Club Annual Show, November 21, 2026. Elyria. 39th annual
MSDA Columbus Stamp Show, December 4-5, 2026. London.
Toledo Stamp Expo, February 26-27, 2027. Perrysburg.
Garfield-Perry March Party, March 12-14, 2027. Strongsville.
COLOPEX, June 18-19, 2027. London. Madison County Fairgrounds

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City Stamp Expo, June 25-26, 2027. Midwest City.

Oregon

Central Oregon Stamp Show. Redmond. The 2026 show was held September 26. The 2027 date is not published yet.

Texas

Houston TSDA Stamp Show, January 8-9, 2027, April 16-17, 2027, July 9-10, 2027 and October 29-30, 2027. Houston. Recurring bourse. Free admission.
Dallas TSDA Stamp Show, December 11-12, 2026, April 9-10, 2027, June 18-19, 2027, August 6-7, 2027 and December 10-11, 2027. McKinney. Recurring bourse. Free admission.
San Antonio TSDA Stamp Show, April 30 to May 1, 2027 and October 8-9, 2027. San Antonio. Recurring bourse. Free admission.
Mid-Cities Stamp Club Expo, November 13-14, 2026 and November 12-13, 2027. Grapevine.
Greater Houston Stamp Show, September 17-19, 2027. Humble. Humble Civic Center

Washington

Olympia Philatelic Society Roundup. Lacey. The 2026 show was held October 3. The 2027 date is not published yet.
SEAPEX. Tukwila. Tukwila Community Center. The 2026 show was held October 9-10. The 2027 date is not published yet.

Wisconsin

MILCOPEX. Brookfield. The 2026 show was held September 25-26. The 2027 date is not published yet.
Monroe Stamp and Postcard Show. Monroe. The 2026 show was held October 3. The 2027 date is not published yet.
MSDA WI-IL Stateline Stamp Show. Kenosha. The 2026 show was held October 9-10. The next date is not published yet.
CENWISPEX. Stevens Point. The 2026 show was held October 17. The 2027 date is not published yet.
Stamp-O-Rama. Fond du Lac. The 2026 show was held October 31. The 2027 date is not published yet.
Oshkosh Stamp Bourse, November 14, 2026. Oshkosh.

What separates a bourse from an exhibition

The phrase stamp show covers two different kinds of event, and which one a visitor wants depends largely on whether that visitor is carrying material or hunting for it.

A bourse is a dealer floor and nothing more than a dealer floor, where dealers rent tables, dealers bring stock to those tables, and visitors spend the day buying, selling and having material looked at across them. Most of the one-day events in the state listings below are bourses, and the Texas Stamp Dealers Association circuit that accounts for a large share of them charges no admission at all.

An exhibition adds competitive frames to the dealer floor that a bourse provides on its own. Collectors mount material for judging, accredited judges award medals against published criteria, and the frames stay open to the public for the length of the show. WESTPEX in Burlingame runs over 250 frames of international exhibits alongside 70 dealers and asks $5 for all three days, with children under 15 admitted free when accompanied by an adult.

The largest exhibitions carry an American Philatelic Society designation called World Series of Philately, and roughly 31 of those are held across the United States in a year. The multi-frame grand award winner at each one is invited to the Champion of Champions competition at the annual APS show, which is the highest national exhibiting honor available and the reason the serious exhibits travel at all.

What a visit costs and what to bring

Admission runs from nothing to a few dollars rather than anything a visitor needs to budget around. The Texas Stamp Dealers Association shows in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio are free, the Great American Stamp Show is free, and WESTPEX at the upper end charges $5 for three days. Where a show on this page charges at all, the charge is stated on that show’s own website, which is linked from its entry.

A visitor bringing material to sell should bring the material sorted rather than loose, because dealers at a bourse work under time pressure and a dealer gives a more considered figure for a collection presented in albums or stockbooks than for the same collection tipped out of a shoebox. A visitor bringing material for identification should bring it in protective mounts, since handling by several people across a day damages unprotected stamps.

A visitor intending to buy should bring a want list carrying catalog numbers rather than descriptions, because a dealer holding stock in catalog order can answer a catalog number in seconds and cannot easily answer a description of a design. Catalog numbers can be established from the Scott stamp catalog reference and checked against recent sold prices on the stamp values tool before the drive rather than after it.

Not near a show

Know about a show that is not here. Send us the date, the city and a link through the support form and we will add it. This calendar only works because collectors tell us what we are missing, and the states with the thinnest coverage are exactly the ones where we most need the tip. Twenty-nine states currently have nothing listed, and the Northeast outside New Jersey and Maine is the biggest gap.

If you are not near a show, or do not want to wait for one, the marketplace runs every day of the year, and over 150,000 stamps are listed on it right now from dealers and collectors across the country, so if you are hunting something specific you do not have to wait for a Saturday in a hotel function room to find it.