Seattle Christmas Market

The Seattle Christmas market fills the Seattle Center from 20 November to 26 December 2026, with an extra evening on 31 December. Created in 2023 and inspired by European Christmas markets, it brings together more than 80 artisans’ huts around a Christmas pyramid that doubles as a stage, a carousel and an Alpen Haus. Admission is ticketed, from 6.99 USD on a dated, timed ticket, and free up to age 6. The 2026 edition is the fourth.

Seattle Christmas market 2026: dates and opening hours

The Seattle Christmas Market opens on 20 November 2026 and closes on 26 December. Until 13 December, the early-season hours apply: Monday to Friday from 4pm to 9pm, Saturday and Sunday from 11:30am to 9pm. The market is closed on 26 November, Thanksgiving Day, and reopens on the 27th from 11:30am to 9pm.

The schedule changes as Christmas approaches. From 14 to 18 December, the market opens every day from 11:30am to 9pm, then from 19 to 23 December from 10am to 9:30pm. On 24 December, the huts close at 7pm after opening at 10am. On 25 December, everything is closed, and on 26 December, the last day, the market is open from 11:30am to 9pm.

On 31 December, the carousel, the Christmas pyramid, the food and drink huts and a biergarten in front of the Alpen Haus reopen to the public at 2pm. From 8pm, the biergarten hosts a New Year’s Eve party on a separate ticket, until 1am, and the carousel and the pyramid stay open to all.

Seattle Christmas Market tickets and prices

All single tickets are booked for a date and a 30-minute time slot, on the market’s online ticketing. A single ticket costs from 6.99 USD: 6.99 to 10.99 USD in the first weeks, in late November, and 19.99 to 21.99 USD at the height of December. Three passes cover the season: the season pass at 31.99 USD, the family pass at 64.99 USD and the “Date Night” package at 47.99 USD. Children aged 6 and under get in free.

Christmas pyramid, carousel and more than 80 artisans’ huts

The market lines up more than 80 artisans’ huts selling handmade gifts. In the centre, a Christmas pyramid carries the Flying Stage, where live music acts follow one another. A carousel turns alongside, and artificial snow falls on the aisles every day. The Alpen Haus, the heated space in the Fisher Pavilion, offers tables for eating in the warm, with a biergarten set up in front.

What to eat and drink: Glühwein and Feuerzangenbowle

The drinks menu is that of a German market: Glühwein, spiced mulled wine, and Feuerzangenbowle, mulled wine over which a rum-soaked sugarloaf burns before melting into the bowl. The food huts and the biergarten complete the offer, and they are also open on 31 December from 2pm.

Where the Christmas market is in Seattle and how to get there

The market is set up on the South Fountain Lawn and in the Fisher Pavilion of the Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St. From Europe, flights are worth comparing between airlines.

The continent’s other markets are gathered on our page of Christmas markets in North America. On the West Coast, the Los Angeles Christmas market, set in a Bavarian village in Huntington Beach, is the season’s other date.