Christmas 2024 Starts in Harrogate
Start your 2024 Christmas in Harrogate and you will be treated to the sights, sounds and smells of a traditional festive market. Extended to three weeks, the Harrogate Christmas Fayre is the perfect place to start your Christmas shopping with over 50 local and European traders selling everything from unique handmade gifts to tasty treats.
Live carol singing and entertainment will fill the air making for a magical Christmas atmosphere you can soak up whilst enjoying a tasty treat from one of the many stalls in the market, or in one of Harrogate’s many bars, cafés or restaurants.
Christmas Markets
Harrogate Christmas Fayre
Experience the joy of Christmas in the heart of Yorkshire this December. Harrogate’s famous Christmas Market returns to the...
Harrogate Festive Artisan Market
Come and join Little Bird for their weekend Christmas artisan market in Harrogate Valley Gardens. Little Bird specialises in...
The Great Yorkshire Christmas Fair
Indoor festive fair, formerly held at Ripley Castle, featuring 180 top companies selling everything you could want to thrill...
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Harrogate Pantomime, Beauty and the Beast
27 November - 19 January
Young Dick Wittington will set off to London to seek his fortune in the city where the streets are paved with gold. Packed with sparkle, silliness, and side-splitting jokes, Harrogate Theatre’s magical pantomime is a seasonal spectacular and we can’t wait to see you for the greatest adventure of them all!
Beauty and the Beast
Glow - Winter Illuminations at RHS Garden Harlow Carr
Get ready to light up your winter as RHS Glow transforms RHS Harlow Carr into a sparkling wonderland. Bring family and friends for an enchanting festive experience. A Magical Trail This year, we’re excited to introduce towering Playful Petunias, where a simple button press brings them to life with changing colours and fun sound effects. Capture magical moments at the star frame and wander through a forest of sparkling Fairybell Trees. Be mesmerized as you...
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Christmas at Harrogate Horticultural Nursery
Wreath-making workshops - 26 November - 18 December
The floral engine room behind Harrogate's reputation for horticultural splendour embraces the festive spirit with gusto this year. The nursery is also hosting a series of wreath-making workshops beginning on 26 November and running right through to 17 December.
This coincides with the beginning of the Christmas plant sale of their incredible Poinsettias. Grown on site, these plants have never been out of their ideal growing conditions meaning they will continue to shine through the Christmas season and right through to spring!
Father Christmas Experience
30 November - 24 December
Tinsel the chief elf, is training prospective new elves to help Father Christmas deliver the most important night of the year. The Father Christmas Experience is hosted at the Cedar Court Hotel, families can will be invited to visit the Elf Village, explore the Forest of Enchanted Wishes and then have a sing-along with the elves before meeting Father Christmas himself.
On 21 & 22 December Codebreaker's Christmas, a new 'escape room' style challenge allows young ones to help the elves solve the puzzle and find Santa so Christmas can be saved!
