When do the Christmas Markets in York start?

The York Christmas Market is the first to open, on Thursday 12 November 2026, and it is also the last to close, on Monday 21 December 2026. The Acomb Christmas Artisan Market and the Living North Yorkshire Christmas Fair both take place in November, while the Yorkshire Yuletide Village runs from Tuesday 1 to Sunday 20 December 2026.

November sees three openings on the map. The Parliament Street market starts trading on Thursday 12 November. The Acomb market begins on Front Street the following day, Friday 13 November, and stays until Sunday 15 November. The Living North fair at York Racecourse opens on Thursday 19 November and closes on Sunday 22 November.

December adds the Yuletide Village, whose first day in the Guildhall is Tuesday 1 December. That date is a Tuesday, one of the weekly rest days of the Parliament Street market. From then on the Yuletide Village trades every day until Sunday 20 December, and both city-centre markets run side by side on every other day of that span.

The overview of the Christmas Markets in York gives the location and the goods of each market.

Opening day, closing day and trading days for 2026, in map order:

The York Christmas Market is closed on Tuesday 17 and Tuesday 24 November and on Tuesday 1, 8 and 15 December 2026.

Visit York's York Christmas Market page lists the 2026 run of the Parliament Street stalls and their Tuesday closures. Made in Yorkshire's listing for the first Yuletide week gives the dates, the Guildhall venue and the makers of that opening week.

Two of the markets on the map finish in November. The Acomb market packs up on Sunday 15 November after its three days on Front Street, and the Living North fair ends its four days at the racecourse on Sunday 22 November.

The Yuletide Village holds its last day in the Guildhall on Sunday 20 December. Its run is made up of three weekly periods: 1 to 6 December, 7 to 13 December and 14 to 20 December. The York Christmas Market stays one day longer and closes for the season on Monday 21 December.

Among the markets on the map, none of those with announced dates is open after 21 December. None of them trades on 24, 25, 26 or 31 December or on 1 January 2027, and their season does not continue into the new year.

Dates of the 2025 and 2024 seasons, in map order:

In both 2024 and 2025 the Living North fair lasted four days, from a Thursday to a Sunday in November, at York Racecourse. The Yuletide Village opened on a Tuesday in December in each of those two seasons, inside the Guildhall; in 2025 its first period ran from 2 to 7 December and its last from 15 to 19 December.