Christmas 2026 · The Markets Map
Our New York and Chicago markets in full, plus the best known Christmas markets across the United States and Europe, each with its real 2026 dates checked against the organizer. Tap a pin for the dates and the story, jump between regions with the buttons, or read the full list below the map.
2026 dates
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New York · Bryant Park, between 40th and 42nd Sts and Fifth and Sixth Aves
The biggest of the open air markets, with more than 170 kiosk shops arranged around the skating rink under the plane trees. It opens before Halloween, so it is the one market you can shop before the season even starts.
2026 dates: Oct 28, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
Cost: Free to browse
New York · Union Square Park, E 14th St at Broadway
Roughly 185 vendors in red and white striped booths along the south end of Union Square Park. The mix leans local and handmade, with a strong food row, and it is the downtown market most New Yorkers actually shop.
2026 dates: Nov 12 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free to browse
New York · Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal, 89 E 42nd St
The only indoor market on this map, set in the marble Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Terminal with about 40 vendors: art, jewelry, toys and New York made gifts, all out of the weather. Closed on Thanksgiving Day.
2026 dates: Nov 9 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free to browse
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New York · Central Park entrance at 59th St and Central Park West
An open air market at the southwest corner of Central Park, where the park meets Columbus Circle. The operator has confirmed it returns for 2026; the dates had not been published at our check, and we would rather show that than guess.
2026 dates: 2026 dates to be announced
Cost: Free to browse
New York · Lower Level, Macy's Herald Square, 151 W 34th St
An indoor holiday market inside the Macy's flagship, stocked with New York themed gifts, ornaments and food gifts, one floor down from the famous windows and Santaland.
2026 dates: Oct 30, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
Cost: Free to browse
Chicago · Daley Plaza, 50 West Washington Street, the Loop
The original Christkindlmarket site, in its 30th anniversary season: 55 plus vendors in German style stalls under the Picasso in the Loop.
2026 dates: Nov 20 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free admission
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Chicago · Gallagher Way, 3635 North Clark Street, Wrigleyville
The smallest of the three Chicago sites, beside Wrigley Field, and the only one open after Christmas: it runs through New Year's Eve. Closed on Christmas Day.
2026 dates: Nov 20 to Dec 31, 2026
Cost: Free admission
Chicago · RiverEdge Park, 360 North Broadway, Aurora
The largest of the three Chicago sites, with 60 plus vendors on the river in Aurora. The Thursday to Sunday pattern is the detail visitors most often get wrong.
2026 dates: Nov 20 to Dec 24, 2026, Thu to Sun only, plus extra days near Christmas
Cost: Free admission
Chicago · Chase Promenade North, Millennium Park, downtown
A three day market of 40 plus local artisans that runs only across the tree lighting weekend in Millennium Park.
2026 dates: Nov 20 to Nov 22, 2026, opening weekend only
Cost: Free entry
Washington DC · F Street NW between 7th and 9th Streets, downtown
More than 115 vendors take over two blocks of F Street NW in the middle of downtown, in the market's 22nd season.
2026 dates: Nov 13 to Dec 23, 2026
Cost: Free entry
Philadelphia · LOVE Park and City Hall, 1500 Arch Street
A German style village of 120 plus vendors across LOVE Park and the City Hall courtyard. It closes Nov 23 to 25 and on Christmas Day, then opens again for Dec 26 and 27.
2026 dates: Nov 21 to Dec 27, 2026
Cost: Free admission
Boston · 100 Seaport Boulevard, Seaport District
The biggest of Boston's markets, with 130 plus vendors in the Seaport District. Closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
2026 dates: Nov 6 to Dec 27, 2026
Denver · Tivoli Quad, Auraria Campus
Denver's German style Christkindlmarket, staged this year on the Tivoli Quad at the Auraria Campus, a short walk from downtown.
2026 dates: Nov 20 to Dec 23, 2026
Cost: Free entry
Bethlehem, PA · PNC Plaza at SteelStacks, 645 E First Street
A ticketed, cashless market on the SteelStacks campus, in the shadow of the old Bethlehem Steel furnaces. It runs on weekends across six weeks.
2026 dates: Nov 13 to Dec 20, 2026, weekends only
Cost: Ticketed entry
Carmel, IN · Carter Green, 10 Carter Green
German style stalls and an ice rink on Carter Green by the Palladium, in an Indiana suburb that has built its winter calendar around this market. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays, and on Thanksgiving.
2026 dates: Nov 21 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free entry
Seattle · Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street
A ticketed European style market on the Seattle Center grounds under the Space Needle. Closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, with a one night return on New Year's Eve.
2026 dates: Nov 20 to Dec 26, 2026, plus New Year's Eve
Cost: Ticketed entry
Leavenworth, WA · Front Street, downtown Leavenworth
Not a stall market: the whole Bavarian themed mountain town lights up. The lights burn daily from Thanksgiving weekend to the end of February, and the Christmastown festivities run to Christmas Eve.
2026 dates: Lights Nov 26, 2026 to Feb 28, 2027; Christmastown festivities Nov 27 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free
Strasbourg, France · Place Broglie and the squares of the Grande Île
France's oldest Christmas market, running since 1570 and spread across the squares of the old town under the cathedral. Strasbourg calls itself the Capital of Christmas, and earns it.
2026 dates: Nov 27 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free to browse
Vienna, Austria · Rathausplatz, in front of City Hall
Vienna's flagship market fills Rathausplatz in front of the lit up City Hall, with stalls, a tree of hearts and an ice rink winding through the park beside it.
2026 dates: Nov 13 to Dec 26, 2026
Cost: Free to browse
Prague, Czechia · Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí)
Wooden huts and a giant tree on Old Town Square under the Týn Church towers. It is one of the few big markets that keeps trading past New Year.
2026 dates: Nov 28, 2026 to Jan 6, 2027
Cost: Free to browse
Budapest, Hungary · Szent István tér, in front of St Stephen's Basilica
The Advent Basilica market fills the square in front of St Stephen's Basilica, with Hungarian crafts, chimney cakes and a light show projected on the church front every evening.
2026 dates: Nov 13, 2026 to Jan 1, 2027
Cost: Free to browse
Cologne, Germany · Roncalliplatz, beside Cologne Cathedral
About 140 stalls on Roncalliplatz in the shadow of the cathedral, under a canopy of lights and one of the tallest natural Christmas trees in the region. Closed on Nov 22 for Totensonntag, the Sunday of remembrance.
2026 dates: Nov 16 to Dec 23, 2026
Cost: Free to browse
Nuremberg, Germany · Hauptmarkt, the main square of the old town
The most famous Christkindlesmarkt of them all: around 180 red and white striped stalls on the Hauptmarkt, opened by the Christkind herself on Nov 27, and serious about handmade goods over mass produced stock.
2026 dates: Nov 27 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free to browse
Dresden, Germany · Altmarkt, the old town square
Germany's oldest Christmas market, first documented in 1434 and now in its 592nd edition, built around Dresdner Stollen and the woodcraft of the Erzgebirge mountains.
2026 dates: Nov 25 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free to browse
Munich, Germany · Marienplatz and the Rindermarkt
Munich's official market spreads over Marienplatz and the Rindermarkt under the New Town Hall, with more than 130 stalls and a nativity market beside St Peter's. Closed on Nov 22 for Totensonntag.
2026 dates: Nov 20 to Dec 24, 2026
Cost: Free to browse
Bruges, Belgium · Markt and Simon Stevinplein
Two markets, on the Markt under the Belfry and on Simon Stevinplein, wrapped into Winter Glow, the city's festival of lights across the medieval center.
2026 dates: Nov 20, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
Cost: Free to browse
Copenhagen, Denmark · Tivoli Gardens, Vesterbrogade 3
A Christmas season inside the 1843 pleasure gardens: stalls, rides and thousands of lights, opposite the central station. The gardens close on Dec 24.
2026 dates: Nov 13, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
Cost: Ticketed entry
London, United Kingdom · Hyde Park, London
A full winter fairground in Hyde Park: Christmas markets, an ice rink, rides and shows. Entry is by timed ticket booked ahead, and the park closes on Christmas Day.
2026 dates: Nov 19, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
Cost: Timed entry ticket, from £1 off peak
Edinburgh, United Kingdom · East Princes Street Gardens
Around 70 stalls in East Princes Street Gardens below the castle, with a big wheel and rides, running right through Hogmanay. Closed on Christmas Day.
2026 dates: Nov 14, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
Cost: Free entry
Paris, France · Jardin des Tuileries, between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde
La Magie de Noël fills the Tuileries Garden with about 100 chalets, a Ferris wheel and an ice rink: part Christmas market, part funfair, in the middle of Paris.
2026 dates: Nov 14, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
Cost: Free entry
Salzburg, Austria · Domplatz and Residenzplatz, beside the cathedral
About 100 stalls wrap around the cathedral on Domplatz and Residenzplatz, under the fortress, with choirs and tower brass through the season, and a Krampus run on Dec 5.
2026 dates: Nov 19, 2026 to Jan 1, 2027
Cost: Free to browse
Kraków, Poland · Rynek Główny, the Main Market Square
Stalls fill Rynek Główny, one of the largest medieval squares in Europe, beside the Cloth Hall, and the season is famous for the szopki, the ornate nativity scenes unique to Kraków.
2026 dates: Nov 27, 2026 to Jan 6, 2027
Cost: Free to browse
Tallinn, Estonia · Town Hall Square (Raekoja plats), the Old Town
A compact market around a tall tree on Town Hall Square in the medieval Old Town, with one of the longest seasons in Europe, running past New Year to Epiphany.
2026 dates: Nov 20, 2026 to Jan 6, 2027
Cost: Free to browse
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