UK Christmas markets A–Z

Two decorated Christmas trees and a lit-up fairground ride on Broad Street, with the granite spires of Marischal College behind

Aberdeen Christmas Village

Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen · Scotland

Thu 12 Nov 2026 – Sun 3 Jan 2027 — Open daily except 25 Dec, 26 Dec and 1 Jan; Curated in the Square dates not yet published

The stone gatehouse and battlemented walls of Alnwick Castle, with a path leading up to its arched entrance

Alnwick Castle Christmas Fair

Alnwick, Northumberland · North East England

Tue 24 – Wed 25 Nov 2026 — Tue 24 Nov evening preview; Wed 25 Nov market day

Ardingly Winter Fair

Ardingly, West Sussex · South East England

Sat 21 – Sun 22 Nov 2026

Sat 9am–5pm; Sun 9am–4pm (2026 FAQ)

A walk-through light sculpture of a giant blue gift box with a golden bow, beside stone shopfronts hung with icicle lights at dusk

Bakewell Christmas Market Weekend

Bakewell, Derbyshire · East Midlands

Sat 14 – Sun 15 Nov 2026

9am–5pm (2025)

The Steak Barn at Balgove Larder, a farm building faced with stacked wooden crates, beside a gravel yard and trees

Balgove Larder Christmas Night Market

St Andrews, Fife · Scotland

Tue 1 Dec 2026 — Tuesday evening, 4pm–8pm

4pm–8pm (2026)

The granite Albert Memorial Hall in Ballater, with its square tower and tall windows, facing a paved square

Ballater Winter Festival

Ballater, Aberdeenshire · Scotland

Sat 28 Nov 2026 — Saturday; indoor fayre 10am–4pm, outdoor market 10am–3pm, reindeer 12 noon–3pm

Indoor craft fayre 10am–4pm; outdoor Christmas market 10am–3pm (2026 plan)

Ballymena Christmas Artisan Market

Ballymena, County Antrim · Northern Ireland

2026 dates not announced yet — usually about a week in early December (closed Sunday)

11am–4pm (2025); closed Sunday

Crowds among market chalets and food stalls in front of Bath Abbey and Georgian buildings, under a clear blue sky

Bath Christmas Market

Bath, Somerset · South West England

Thu 26 Nov – Sun 13 Dec 2026

Mon–Wed 10am–7pm; Thu–Sat 10am–8pm; Sun 10am–6pm

Shoppers walking between Christmas market stalls and a flower stall decorated with a wicker reindeer, with a white statue and the green dome of Belfast City Hall behind

Belfast Christmas Market

Belfast, County Antrim · Northern Ireland

Sat 14 Nov – Tue 22 Dec 2026 — Opens 12 noon on 14 Nov; closes 6pm on 22 Dec

Mon–Wed 10am–8pm; Thu–Sat 10am–10pm; Sun 12 noon–6pm; opens 12 noon on 14 Nov, closes 6pm on 22 Dec (2026)

Beverley's market cross outlined in blue Christmas lights at night, with a lit tree beneath it and shops around the square

Beverley Festival of Christmas

Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire · Yorkshire and the Humber

Sun 13 Dec 2026 — Sunday only, 10am–4pm; 30th festival

10am–4pm (Sunday 13 December 2026)

Wooden chalets lit with festive lights in Victoria Square at night, with an illuminated tree and the domed Council House behind

Birmingham's Frankfurt Christmas Market

Birmingham, West Midlands · West Midlands

Thu 5 Nov – Thu 24 Dec 2026 — Open daily; opens at 1pm on Remembrance Sunday (8 Nov)

Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri 11am–9.30pm; Sat 10am–9.30pm; Sun 10am–9pm (opens 1pm on Remembrance Sunday, 8 Nov 2026)

The white-harled towers and turrets of Blair Castle above a gravel forecourt and lawn

Blair Castle Christmas Market

Blair Atholl, Perth and Kinross · Scotland

Fri 20 – Sun 22 Nov 2026 — Friday to Sunday, 10am–4pm

10am–4pm (2026)

A brightly painted carousel with gilded horses beneath the stone clock tower and archway of Blenheim Palace's courtyard

Blenheim Palace Christmas Market

Woodstock, Oxfordshire · South East England

Fri 13 Nov – Sun 20 Dec 2026 — Wider Christmas at Blenheim season runs 13 Nov 2026 – 3 Jan 2027

The tall lantern tower of St Botolph's Church, 'The Stump', and its long nave glowing in low winter sun, seen across a green with bare trees

Boston Christmas Festival

Boston, Lincolnshire · East Midlands

2026 dates not announced yet — usually three days (Friday to Sunday) in late November

2025: from 2pm Friday to 4pm Sunday

Crowds walking between lit wooden market chalets at night in Bournemouth, beneath cone-shaped Christmas light trees and a light-wrapped tower

Bournemouth Christmas Market

Bournemouth, Dorset · South West England

Thu 12 Nov – Thu 31 Dec 2026 — Festive Trail in the Lower Gardens runs 12 Nov 2026–3 Jan 2027

Daily from 11am; market stalls close 8pm (7pm Sundays); food stalls open until 10pm

The Bowhouse farm buildings among fields of round hay bales, with St Monans church and the sea beyond

Bowhouse December Market Weekend

St Monans, Fife · Scotland

Fri 11 – Sun 13 Dec 2026 — Friday to Sunday, 10am–4pm, free entry

10am–4pm (2026)

Wooden market huts, picnic benches, clear dining domes, a lit Christmas pyramid and a giant golden bauble on a paved shopping street at dusk

Bristol Christmas Market

Bristol · South West England

2026 dates not announced yet — usually Early November to 23 December

Festive stalls 10am–7pm; food stalls and bars 10am–10pm; closes 6pm on 23 December (2025)

A long thatched barn behind a fence and parasols, with a hanging sign and a roadside sign for Broadditch Farm Shop

Broadditch Authentic Christmas Market

Southfleet, Kent · South East England

Fri 13 – Sun 15 Nov 2026

Fri 3pm–9pm; Sat–Sun 10am–5pm (2026)

The low timber farm shop and tea room at Brocksbushes, with garden ornaments and planters set out in front and tall conifers behind

Brocksbushes Christmas Fayre

Stocksfield (near Corbridge), Northumberland · North East England

Thu 12 – Sun 15 Nov 2026 — Thursday to Sunday; tickets on sale from early October

The pale stone abbey church at Buckfast, with its tall square tower and green copper roofs, behind lawns and a flower bed

Buckfast Abbey Christmas Market

Buckfastleigh, Devon · South West England

Thu 26 – Sat 28 Nov 2026 — Thursday to Saturday, 10am–5pm

10am–5pm

The Elizabethan front of Burghley House, with its pepper-pot turrets and rows of tall windows, above a mown lawn under a blue sky

Burghley Christmas Fair

Stamford, Lincolnshire · East Midlands

Thu 26 – Sun 29 Nov 2026 — Pre-booked timed-arrival tickets only

9.30am–4pm Thu and Sun; 9.30am–7.30pm Fri and Sat (2026)

Canterbury Cathedral's pinnacled towers rising above Christmas market stalls and a red-and-white carousel, with visitors in the precincts on a grey day

Canterbury Christmas Market

Canterbury, Kent · South East England

Thu 12 Nov – Thu 24 Dec 2026 — Daily for 43 days; closes 4pm on Christmas Eve

Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 9am–7pm; Sun 10am–5pm; Christmas Eve closes 4pm (2026)

Rows of wooden Christmas market huts and shoppers on Working Street, seen from above, with the tower of St John's Church and autumn trees behind

Cardiff Christmas Market

Cardiff · Wales

Thu 12 Nov – Wed 23 Dec 2026

Mon–Sat 10am–6pm (Thursdays in December to 7pm); Sun 10am–5pm

The wide pedestrianised Queen Street in Cardiff, lined with shops and trees, with a street clock and shoppers

Cardiff Victorian Christmas Market

Cardiff · Wales

Thu 12 – Sun 15 Nov 2026 — First edition

Thu–Sat 10am–7pm; Sun 10am–5pm

Cardigan Castle's stone walls and trees on a rise above the River Teifi, reflected in the still water at low tide

Cardigan Castle Christmas Fair (Ffair Nadolig Castell Aberteifi)

Cardigan, Ceredigion · Wales

Sat 28 Nov 2026 — Saturday 10am–4pm

10am–4pm

Carlisle's pink-painted Old Town Hall with its small clock turret and the tall stone Market Cross in the paved Market Square, under a blue sky with clouds

Carlisle Christmas Markets

Carlisle, Cumbria · North West England

2026 dates not announced yet — usually Saturdays in December

The stone towers and gabled ranges of Cawdor Castle behind flowering shrubs and a lawn under a blue sky with white clouds

Cawdor Castle Christmas Market

Cawdor, near Nairn, Highland · Scotland

2026 dates not announced yet — usually one weekend (Saturday and Sunday) in mid-December

10am–4pm both days (2025)

White marquees and blue-and-white market stalls with visitors at picnic tables, below the stone corner of Chatsworth House on a grey day

Chatsworth Christmas Market

Bakewell, Derbyshire · East Midlands

Sat 7 Nov – Sun 13 Dec 2026 — Parking must be pre-booked

Mon–Thu 10am–5.30pm; Fri–Sun 10am–6pm (2026)

Red-roofed Christmas market chalets selling knitwear and gifts line a wet paved promenade, with shoppers walking between them under bare trees

Cheltenham Christmas Market

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire · South West England

Thu 10 – Wed 23 Dec 2026 — 40 chalets planned. Organiser page gives '10th–23rd December' without a year, but it was updated after the 2025 version (which said 11–23 Dec).

Shoppers walking between lit wooden chalets towards a tall Christmas tree covered in lights, with strings of festoon lights overhead at dusk

Chester Christmas Market

Chester, Cheshire · North West England

Wed 18 Nov – Tue 22 Dec 2026

Sunday–Wednesday 10.30am–6.30pm; Thursday–Saturday 10.30am–8pm (2026)

Rows of empty canvas-roofed market stalls in Chesterfield's cobbled Market Place at dusk, with the clock tower of the Market Hall silhouetted against a pale sky

Chesterfield Christmas Market

Chesterfield, Derbyshire · East Midlands

Fri 20 – Sun 22 Nov 2026 — Sunday runs alongside the Christmas Lights Switch-On

Fri–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 11am–7pm (2026)

The white-pillared bandstand with a red-tiled roof in Chapelfield Gardens, among bare trees under a deep blue sky

Christkindl Market Norwich

Norwich, Norfolk · East of England

Fri 11 – Sun 20 Dec 2026

Daily 10am–9pm (2026)

The pale stone classical front of Castle Ward house, with a central pediment and rows of sash windows, behind a lawn

Christmas Artisan Market at Castle Ward

Strangford, County Down · Northern Ireland

2026 dates not announced yet — usually one Friday-to-Sunday weekend in early December

Fri 1pm–8pm (late-night opening); Sat–Sun 11am–5pm (2025)

The granite towers and turrets of Balmoral Castle across a wide green lawn, with autumn trees under a grey-blue sky

Christmas at Balmoral Castle – Christmas Artisan Markets

Crathie, Aberdeenshire · Scotland

Fri 6 – Sun 8 Nov 2026 — 10am–4pm

10am–4pm (2026)

A wooden footbridge across the grassy moat leading towards the medieval Great Hall of Eltham Palace, with its tall windows and steep tiled roof

Christmas Fair at Eltham Palace

Eltham, Greater London · London

Sat 5 – Sun 6 Dec 2026

10am–4pm (2026)

A path across the wide lawn of Parker's Piece towards a big wheel and a helter-skelter behind wooden hoardings, with a large Victorian building to the right

Christmas in Cambridge

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire · East of England

Fri 13 Nov 2026 – Sun 3 Jan 2027

2026: 13 Nov–18 Dec Mon–Thu 11.30am–10pm, Fri 11.30am–11pm, Sat 10am–11pm, Sun 10am–10pm; 19 Dec–3 Jan Sun–Thu 10am–10pm, Fri–Sat 10am–11pm

The long colonnaded front of the Caird Hall facing Dundee's paved City Square, with picnic tables and a fountain under a blue sky

Christmas in City Square

Dundee, City of Dundee · Scotland

Fri 27 Nov – Thu 31 Dec 2026

Wooden market chalets strung with warm lights around a large plane tree in Leicester Square, with shoppers on the wet paving

Christmas in Leicester Square

London, Greater London · London

Sat 31 Oct 2026 – Sun 3 Jan 2027 — Open daily except Christmas Day (dates for the rink and its market stalls)

Rink/bar 2026: 31 Oct–26 Nov Mon–Fri 12pm–10pm, Sat–Sun 10am–10pm; from 27 Nov daily 10am–10pm (different hours 24, 26 Dec and 1 Jan; closed 25 Dec)

A brightly lit carousel at night at the end of Broad Street in Oxford, between old stone college buildings, with people walking along the wet pavement

Christmas in Oxford

Oxford, Oxfordshire · South East England

Sat 21 Nov – Thu 31 Dec 2026 — Daily except Christmas Day

Market stalls Sun–Wed 10am–6pm, Thu–Sat 10am–8pm; bar, food and entertainment Sun–Mon 10am–8pm, Tue–Sat 10am–10pm; closes 5.30pm on 24 Dec (2026)

The pale battlemented walls and round towers of Picton Castle beside a sweeping lawn, with outbuildings and trees under a cloudy sky

Christmas Market at Picton Castle

Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire · Wales

Sat 21 – Sun 22 Nov 2026

The towers and battlemented walls of Raby Castle above a moat-like pond and green lawns under a clear blue sky

Christmas Market at Raby Castle

Staindrop, County Durham · North East England

Fri 27 – Sun 29 Nov 2026 — Friday to Sunday

9am–3pm (2026, per Visit County Durham listing)

Market chalets, a tall wooden Christmas pyramid and a big wheel on St George's Plateau in front of the columned St George's Hall, with shoppers crossing the road

Christmas Market at Skate St George's

Liverpool, Merseyside · North West England

Sat 21 Nov 2026 – Sun 3 Jan 2027 — Run as Skate St George's (ice rink plus Christmas market); closed Christmas Day

10am–10pm daily; 24 Dec closes 6pm; 26 Dec and 1 Jan open noon–10pm; closed Christmas Day (2026)

A small ice rink behind a white picket fence lined with frosted mini Christmas trees, with festoon lights, white marquees and a tall brick warehouse behind

Christmas Markets at Gloucester Quays

Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West England

Sat 7 – Sun 8 Nov 2026

Saturdays 10am–6pm; Sundays 10am–5pm

A row of wooden Christmas market chalets trimmed with garlands and coloured lights in Salisbury's Market Place at dusk, with shoppers browsing

Christmas on the Square & Sunday Festive Markets

Salisbury, Wiltshire · South West England

Fri 20 Nov – Thu 24 Dec 2026 — Retail chalets and barrows on Guildhall Square 20 Nov–24 Dec, 11am–6pm; Christmas Begins on Fri 20 Nov (1pm–8.30pm). Sunday Festive Market dates for 2026 not yet published.

Retail chalets and barrows 11am–6pm (2026); Sunday Festive Markets 10am–4pm (2025)

Christmas Shopping Fayre at Westpoint Exeter

Exeter, Devon · South West England

Fri 27 – Sun 29 Nov 2026 — 30th fayre

Fri and Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 10am–4pm

The interior of St George's Market in Belfast, a long Victorian hall with a glazed iron roof, strings of bunting and rows of market stalls

Christmas Twilight Market at St George's

Belfast, County Antrim · Northern Ireland

Tue 24 – Wed 25 Nov 2026 — Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, 4pm–10pm; free admission

4pm–10pm both evenings; adults only in the last hour (2025)

The tall glass-and-iron roof of the West Handyside Canopy at King's Cross over a paved open space, with table-tennis tables and brick buildings beyond

Christmas under the Canopy

London, Greater London · London

2026 dates not announced yet — usually late November to just before Christmas, Tuesday to Sunday

Coventry Christmas Market

Coventry, West Midlands · West Midlands

2026 dates not announced yet — usually late November to early January

2025: 11am–8pm Sun–Thu; 11am–9pm Fri–Sat; closed Christmas Day (2026 hours not yet published)

The pink-harled tower house of Crathes Castle with its turrets, beside clipped yew hedges and a lawn under a clear blue sky

Crathes Christmas Fair

Banchory, Aberdeenshire · Scotland

Fri 13 – Sun 15 Nov 2026 — Friday to Sunday, 10am–3pm

10am–3pm (2026)

A Christmas tree covered in blue-white lights beside the floodlit red sandstone walls of St Magnus Cathedral at dusk

Creative Orkney & Taste of Orkney Christmas Fayre

Kirkwall, Orkney Islands · Scotland

Sat 21 – Sun 22 Nov 2026 — Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 10am–3pm

Sat 21 Nov 10am–5pm; Sun 22 Nov 10am–3pm (2026)

The Georgian stone Town Hall in Newtownards, with a white cupola, clock and blue doors, facing the paved Conway Square under a clear sky

Creative Peninsula Christmas Fayre

Newtownards, County Down · Northern Ireland

Fri 4 – Sat 5 Dec 2026 — Fri 4 Dec 4pm–8pm; Sat 5 Dec 10am–4pm

Fri 4pm–8pm (late-night shopping); Sat 10am–4pm (2026)

The pale stone Gothic-style Highcliffe Castle with tall pinnacled windows, behind formal box-hedge parterres and lawns under a blue sky

Creatives at the Castle (Highcliffe Castle Christmas Market)

Highcliffe, Dorset · South West England

Sat 21 – Sun 22 Nov 2026 — Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 10am–4pm

Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 10am–4pm (2026)

Olney's Market Place lined with Georgian stone and red-brick buildings and a large tree, under a blue sky with white clouds

Dickens of a Christmas

Olney, Buckinghamshire · South East England

2026 dates not announced yet — usually first Sunday in December, 10am–4pm

Usually 10am–4pm

Rochester's historic High Street at night, with lit shop windows, a garlanded doorway and strings of coloured lights across the narrow street

Dickensian Christmas Festival

Rochester, Kent · South East England

Sat 5 – Sun 6 Dec 2026

10am–6pm both days (2026)

The grey stone Newton House at Dinefwr, with pointed corner turrets, behind a sloping lawn and stone wall

Dinefwr Christmas Fair (Ffair Nadolig Dinefwr)

Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire · Wales

Fri 20 – Sun 22 Nov 2026 — 10am–4pm daily

10am–4pm

A crowd in Santa hats lines a wet town-centre street as Father Christmas and a polar-bear mascot pass, with gazebo stalls and shopfronts behind

Dorchester Christmas Cracker

Dorchester, Dorset · South West England

Sun 13 Dec 2026 — Sunday only, 11am–4pm

11am–4pm

The pink sandstone towers of Drumlanrig Castle above clipped topiary cones and lawns under a blue sky

Drumlanrig Castle Christmas Market

Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway · Scotland

Fri 4 – Sun 6 Dec 2026 — Friday is an evening launch night; Saturday and Sunday daytime shopping. Times and prices to be announced

Fri 4 Dec evening launch night; Sat 5 and Sun 6 Dec daytime (exact times not yet published for 2026). In 2025: Sat 11am–7pm, Sun 11am–4pm

Durham Cathedral's towers and long nave across the wide lawn of Palace Green, framed by old university buildings in warm evening light

Durham Christmas Festival

Durham, County Durham · North East England

Fri 4 – Sun 6 Dec 2026

Friday and Saturday 9am–5.30pm; Sunday 9am–4.30pm (2026)

Small sailing boats moored in St Monans harbour in front of a row of whitewashed and pastel-coloured fishermen's houses under a blue sky

East Neuk Open Studios Christmas Art & Craft Market

St Monans, Fife · Scotland

Sat 7 – Sun 8 Nov 2026 — Saturday and Sunday at Bowhouse

East Princes Street Gardens at night, with fairground rides and market stalls among trees wrapped in coloured lights, below floodlit city buildings

Edinburgh's Christmas – Traditional Christmas Markets

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh · Scotland

Sat 14 Nov 2026 – Sun 3 Jan 2027 — Daily except Christmas Day

10am–10pm daily; 17 Nov 4pm–10pm; Christmas Eve 10am–8pm; closed Christmas Day; 26 Dec 12pm–8pm; 31 Dec 10am–5pm; 1 Jan 12pm–8pm; 3 Jan 10am–6pm (2026)

UK Christmas markets, A–Z