New York Christmas Market

The best-known New York Christmas market is held at Bryant Park, in the middle of Manhattan: the Holiday Shops of the Bank of America Winter Village open from 28 October 2026 to 3 January 2027, around an ice rink with free access. Two other open-air markets, at Union Square and Columbus Circle, are run by the same operator, Urbanspace, and their 2026 dates are still to be announced. Admission to Bryant Park is free, and the two other markets are held outdoors on public space.

New York Christmas market 2026: dates and opening hours

At Bryant Park, the Holiday Shops open on Wednesday 28 October 2026 and close on Sunday 3 January 2027, Monday to Friday from 11am to 8pm, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 8pm. On Thanksgiving Day, 26 November, the market is open from 11am to 8pm, on 25 December from noon to 5pm, on 31 December from 10am to 8pm and on 1 January from 11am to 8pm.

The ice rink has its own season, from 28 October 2026 to 28 February 2027, every day from 8am to 10pm, and until midnight from 19 November to 3 January. The Lodge, the park’s bar and food hall, also returns on 28 October, from 10am to 10pm, and The Chalet opens from 11am to 10pm.

Union Square and Columbus Circle are awaiting their 2026 calendar. In 2025, the Union Square market ran from 13 November to 24 December with 185 vendors.

Bryant Park: the Holiday Shops and the free ice rink

The open-air market at Bryant Park, inspired by European markets, brings together artisans from New York and around the world between 40th and 42nd Streets. In the centre, the 17,000-square-foot ice rink, close to 1,600 m², needs no admission ticket, though skate hire is charged. The park’s manager, Bryant Park Corporation, runs the whole, and the shops are operated by Urbanspace.

From 19 to 24 December, the Live After Dark programme brings the park to life each evening from 4pm. To eat or drink on site, The Lodge and The Chalet stay open until 10pm.

Union Square and Columbus Circle, the other Urbanspace markets

Urbanspace has run Christmas markets in New York since 1993, at Herald Square, Columbus Circle and other sites over the years. The Union Square market filled Union Square Park from mid-November to Christmas Eve in 2025. The Columbus Circle market rounds off the season. The 2026 dates of both markets are still to be announced, as are those of the Grand Central Holiday Fair, the indoor market in Vanderbilt Hall.

How to get to the New York Christmas market

Bryant Park sits between 40th and 42nd Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in Manhattan. By subway, 42 St-Bryant Park and 5 Av stations serve the park. From Europe, flights to New York are worth comparing between airlines, New York in December being a trip in its own right.

The continent’s other big markets are gathered on our page of Christmas markets in North America, including the Chicago Christkindlmarket, the German market on Daley Plaza, the Philadelphia Christmas Village, a day trip from New York, and Canada’s two French-speaking markets, in Montreal and in Old Quebec.