If you liked Bestival … you'll love Soundwave, Croatia
Set in a fishing village on the Dalmatian coast, Soundwave has all the quirks of a Bestival but in a far more beautiful, and sunny, setting (sorry Bestival). An inland amphitheatre for the bands, a beachside terrace for the DJs and Europe's best party boat make this one for sun-lovers. And for the real disco fans some events take place in the unreconstructed 70s glam of the circular Barbarella club.
If you liked onedotzero … you'll love Netmage, Italy
If there's one big trend for festivals in 2010 it's the combination of music and film — well, that and Mexican wrestling. Netmage doesn't have any masked marauders but it does serve up all the multimedia, post-cinema mashing-up of bands and film-makers that you'd get at the BFI's onedotzero festival but in the beautifully incongruous setting of a crumbling Renaissance building in Bologna.
If you liked All Tomorrow's Parties … you'll love No Fun
Brooklyn's No Fun festival is a bit of a legend, packed with noise merchants, oscillator abusers and general rowdiness, so it was a bit of a surprise that the organisers chose sleepy Sweden for their first Eurofest. The likes of Wolf Eyes and Hair Police laid waste to Fylkingen in Stockholm and all eyes are on which European city will be blessed in 2010.
If you liked Download … you'll love Hellfest, France
Like all good metal festivals Hellfest takes place in the kind of spooky European forest you can imagine orcs cavorting in. It's a pretty broad church too – 2010's line-up in Clisson runs from the sublime (Seven Seconds, Agnostic Front) to the ridiculous (hello Twisted Sister).
If you liked Sonar … you'll love Springfestival, Austria
Is this Europe's best excuse-for-a-holiday festival? Electronic and dance acts turn every last indoor inch in the pretty town of Graz into a vast dancefloor for Springfestival, even as far as the vast caves in the surrounding hillsides. It's just 30 minutes' drive from sparkling Alpine lakes and Sound-of-Music-style scenery.
If you liked WOMAD … you'll love Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival, France
The man with the world's best record collection brings a globe-spanning mix of old faves (Gil Scott Heron) and new stars (Diplo) to the chilled-out French resort of Sète, culminating in a mammoth 16-hour beach party. The Worldwide is wonderfully eclectic and surely the only place last year where you might have spotted a man in speedos, a beret, and little more.
If you like the Last Night of the Proms … you'll love the St Magnus Festival on Orkney
Swap one kind of classical grandeur for another at the St Magnus Festival. The Master of the Queen's Music, Peter Maxwell-Davies, brings orchestras, poets and soloists to the stark backdrop of the Scottish Isles. There's a great community spirit here – local groups have tried their hand at opera and readings before and the St Magnus composers' course is a rare chance for young writers to be trained by leading lights of the contemporary music world.
If you liked Roskilde … you'll love Iceland Airwaves
The whole of Reykjavik stops for Airwaves. The streets are thronged with festival-goers deep into the Arctic night, strange impromptu performances spring up in tiny backroom clubs and cafes, and there's no festival in the world more likely to lead to an "all back to mine" situation. It's also the place for some classy post-festival detox. If you've overdone it the night before head to the steaming waters of the Blue Lagoon. If you're still corpus mentis then it's snowmobiling through the snowfields.
If you like the Cambridge Folk festival … you'll love the World Fleadh, Ireland
So the homely charm of Cambridge has whetted your whistle for more folk? Time to head to Co Mayo for the motherlode. Traditional Irish bands with a combined age of 693, American country stars in tight jeans and big hats, and the living lottery that is a Shane MacGowan performance made 2009's the best World Fleadh yet.
If you liked La Linea … you'll love Tempo Latino, France
If it was just the calibre of performers on offer, Tempo Latino in Vic-Fezensac, France, would still be Europe's best Latin music festival, mixing up South American salsa stars and European fellow travellers. But it's much more than that. The dance classes are fantastic for beginners, the setting deep in the French countryside is beautiful, and the late-night dance parties that fill every local bar make this a cross-cultural gem.
• Mat Osman is a former bassist with Suede and a commissioning editor at whatsonwhen.com Frommer's Unlimited. He is also a co-author of Frommer's 300 Unmissable Events & Festivals Around the World, published this month. Buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £14.99.
