Magical events this Christmas in Sheffield city centre 🌟
Revel in the sights and sounds of Christmas in Sheffield city centre.
All kinds of festive encounters await you this year ❄️
Our pick of this year's very best festive events in Sheffield city centre includes:
🎁 Sheffield Christmas Market
📅 Thursday 14 November to Tuesday 24 December 2024
🎁 Crackers for Christmas
📅 Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November 2024
🎁 Christmas Tree Festival
📅 From Tuesday 3 December 2024
🎁 Brearley Bear's Christmas Disco
📅 From Saturday 30 November to Tuesday 24 December 2024
🎁 Sheffield Cathedral Illuminated: The Gift
📅 Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 December 2024
🎁 Festive Forties: A Wartime Christmas
📅 Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December 2024
📖 This guide was last updated on Tuesday 5 November 2024. All information correct at time of writing. Where events are ticketed (🎟️), tickets were available at the time of publication.
Sheffield Christmas Market 🎁
📅 Thursday 14 November to Tuesday 24 December 2024
📍 Peace Gardens, Pinstone Street and The Moor
📝 The city centre's famous Sheffield's Christmas Market is back with an array of seasonal food and drink and unique gift ideas. Celebrating Sheffield's great independent scene, there'll be a whole host of traders with many of them based locally.
Expect Alpine-themed bars, a traditional German sausage grill, Yorkshire pudding wraps, mulled wine, cider, hot chocolate, churros and many other treats 😋
The iconic Big Wheel will be making a welcome return and there's a chance to meet the big man himself at Santa's Grotto.
💡 Opening times as follows:
The Moor cabins
📅 Sunday to Thursday - 10am to 6pm
📅 Friday and Saturday - 10am to 7pm
Pinstone Street cabins
📅 Sunday to Thursday - 10am to 7pm
📅 Friday and Saturday - 10am to 8pm
Alpine Bars
📅 Open between 11am and 10pm.
✨ Sheffield Christmas Market 2024
💡 Celebrate the opening weekend of Sheffield's Christmas Market with an array of festive family entertainment across the city centre, including big bands, choirs, dance, panto, street entertainment, children's costume characters, crafts and storytelling as part of the Crackers for Christmas opening weekend event on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November 2024.
🗺️ Download the Crackers for Christmas map here.
📅 From Thursday 14 November 2024
📍 Barker's Pool
Wait, what’s that we hear? 🤫
“Ho Ho Ho” and the sound of bells and hooves can only mean one thing...Santa Claus is coming to town 🎜🎝🎜
Santa and his elves will be making time in their very busy schedules to sprinkle some joy and merriment in Sheffield city centre.
What's on your Christmas wish list this year? 🎁
Crackers for Christmas 🎁
📅 Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November 2024
📍 Barker's Pool, Peace Gardens, Winter Garden and Tudor Square
📝 With Sheffield’s Christmas Market making its welcome return, bringing festive treats and gifts for everyone to enjoy, the city centre will also be hosting a special bumper festive weekend on the Market's opening weekend.
Expect an array of festive family entertainment across the city centre, including big bands, choirs, dance, panto, street entertainment, children's costume characters, crafts and storytelling.
✨ Crackers For Christmas - festive market opening weekend
Brearley Bear's Christmas Disco 🎉
📅 Saturday 30 November to Tuesday 24 December 2024
📍 Sheffield city centre
📝 Get ready to celebrate the season with Brearley’s Christmas Disco 🎉
Brearley Bear is back with a new city centre trail that promises fun for the whole family this festive season.
🎟️ This is a FREE activity.
Christmas Tree Festival 🎄
📅 Tuesday 3 December 2024 to Sunday 12 January 2025
📍 Sheffield Cathedral
📝 Head inside Sheffield Cathedral's historic space and you’ll discover the sight – and scent – of more than 40 beautifully decorated Christmas trees.
Local businesses, charities and schools have joined in the fun to each decorate a tree for this year's Christmas Tree Festival.
🎟️ This is a FREE activity.
✨ Christmas Tree Festival — Sheffield Cathedral
Sheffield Cathedral Illuminated: The Gift ⛪
📅 Tuesday 3 December to Saturday 7 December 2024
📍 Sheffield Cathedral
📝 Once again, Sheffield Cathedral is collaborating with the award-winning Luxmuralis to start the seasonal festivities in style with the premiere of ‘The Gift’ son-et-lumiere.
Wander around the cathedral and marvel at the incredible multi-sensory immersive experience which un-folds across the building’s ancient walls.
🎟️ Adults: £8
🎟️ Children aged 4-16: £6
🎟️ Children 3 and under: FREE
🎟️ Family ticket options available: £18-£28
✨ Sheffield Cathedral Illuminated: The Gift — Sheffield Cathedral
Festive Forties: A Wartime Christmas 📯
📅 Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December 2024
📍 National Emergency Services Museum
📝 Join the National Emergency Services Museum as they turn the clock back 80 years.
Step into a fabulous forties festive wonderland and join a whole host of costumed characters, living history interpreters and even Father Christmas for a truly traditional Christmas event.
💡 Pre-booking tickets is strongly recommended.
🎟️ Adults: £9.50
🎟️ Children aged 3-15: £7.50
🎟️ Children 3 and under: FREE
🎟️ Family tickets available: £26.50
✨ Wartime Christmas | 999 Museum
Our other festive guides 🎁
If we've got you thinking about 'all things Christmas' and hastily making plans for your next trip to the city centre, you'll want to take a look at our other festive guides.
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Planning your visit to the city centre 👀
Whether your using public transport, cycling, walking or choosing to visit in the car, you'll find lots of useful information in our online guide to getting into and around the city centre.