The Best Christmas Markets in the USA 2026
The 25 Christmas markets Americans search for most, with this year's dates. We rank by Google searches a month, not by our taste: it is the best measure we have of which markets people travel for.
Chicago Christmas Market
Chicago, Illinois · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 20 to Dec 24, 2026
Chicago's original German-style Christmas market, running since 1996, fills Daley Plaza in the Loop with wooden huts selling ornaments, gifts, bratwurst and mulled wine in collectible mugs. Entry is free.
Koziar's Christmas Village
Bernville, Pennsylvania · Christmas village
Nov 7, 2026 to Jan 2, 2027
A family-run Christmas light village in a Berks County valley, now in its 79th season, with more than a million lights on buildings, gift barns and grounds. Entry is by paid ticket at night.
Philadelphia Christmas Market
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 21 to Dec 27, 2026
A German-style Christmas market with more than 120 vendors in wooden stalls around LOVE Park and the City Hall courtyard, with a Glühwein pyramid, European food and a two-tier carousel. Entry is free.
Seattle Christmas Market
Seattle, Washington · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 20 to Dec 26, 2026
A ticketed European-style Christmas market on the lawn and in Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center, with European and local vendors, a carousel, a heated beer hall and Santa visits. It runs from late November to the day after Christmas.
Carmel Christmas Market
Carmel, Indiana · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 21 to Dec 24, 2026
One of the biggest German-style Christmas markets in the Midwest, with dozens of wooden huts, German food and drink and an ice rink on Carter Green in Carmel, just north of Indianapolis.
Denver Christmas Market
Denver, Colorado · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 20 to Dec 23, 2026
A German-style Christmas market with more than 40 local and European vendors, a heated festival hall, a carousel and glass-ornament workshops. It is held on the Tivoli Quad at the Auraria Campus at the edge of downtown Denver.
Leavenworth Christmas Village
Leavenworth, Washington · Christmas village
Nov 27 to Dec 24, 2026
The Bavarian-themed mountain town of Leavenworth turns into Christmastown for four weeks, with half a million lights, live music at the downtown gazebo, Santa visits, food vendors in Front Street Park and a warming hall at the Festhalle. The town's own shops do most of the selling rather than market stalls.
Atlanta Christmas Market
Lawrenceville, Georgia · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 20 to Dec 24, 2026
Metro Atlanta's German-style Christmas market, held since 2025 on the Lawrenceville Lawn after earlier years in Buckhead, with vendor huts, German food and mulled wine, Santa photos and a Ferris wheel. A second, smaller site runs in Senoia.
Christkindlmarket Aurora
Aurora, Illinois · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 20 to Dec 24, 2026
The suburban branch of Chicago's Christkindlmarket, with 60-plus vendors and a heated tent for music beside the Fox River in RiverEdge Park. It opens Thursday to Sunday, plus a few extra days around the holidays.
Bethlehem Christmas Market
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 13 to Dec 20, 2026
One of the best-known German-style Christmas markets in the US, held under heated tents and in the open at the SteelStacks arts campus, with dozens of artisan vendors, food and entertainment over six weekends.
Baltimore Christmas Market
Baltimore, Maryland · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 21 to Dec 27, 2026
A German-style Christmas market at the Inner Harbor with about 70 vendors in a heated tent and outdoor huts around a Glühwein pyramid, with German food and a Käthe Wohlfahrt ornament shop.
Union Square Christmas Market
New York, New York · Downtown holiday market
Nov 12 to Dec 24, 2026
One of New York's best-loved holiday markets, with close to 200 red-and-white stalls of local makers, artists and food vendors filling a corner of Union Square Park. It usually opens in mid-November and closes on Christmas Eve.
Cambria Christmas Market
Cambria, California · Christmas village
Nov 27 to Dec 31, 2026
An evening, ticketed Christmas event in the gardens of Cambria Pines Lodge on California's Central Coast, with about three million lights, a German-inspired artisan market, a train ride, fire pits and Santa. Hotel and ticket packages sell out early on peak nights.
Grapevine Christmas Village
Grapevine, Texas · Downtown holiday market
Nov 23 to Dec 30, 2026
An open-air European-style market run by the city's visitors bureau as part of Grapevine's Christmas Capital of Texas season, with local and regional vendors, food and drink, a merchandise store and photos with Santa next to the North Pole Express train depot.
DC Holiday Market Penn Quarter
Washington, DC · Downtown holiday market
Nov 13 to Dec 23, 2026
Washington's largest outdoor holiday market, in its 22nd year, closes F Street NW in Penn Quarter to traffic for about 120 local makers, food stalls and a stage with live music Thursday to Sunday.
Bryant Park Christmas Market
New York, New York · Downtown holiday market
Oct 28, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
The holiday shops of Bryant Park's Winter Village line the park's paths with glass kiosks selling crafts, gifts and food around a free ice rink in Midtown Manhattan. It is the longest-running of New York's big holiday markets, opening in late October and running into the New Year.
Oregon Garden Christmas Market
Silverton, Oregon · Christmas village
Nov 20 to Dec 31, 2026
An evening, ticketed Christmas market in the Oregon Garden with about two million lights, a German-inspired artisan market, a beer garden, ice skating, snowless tubing and Santa visits. It bills itself as Oregon's largest German Christmas market and is about an hour south of Portland.
Wrigleyville Christmas Market
Chicago, Illinois · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 20 to Dec 31, 2026
A smaller, family-oriented offshoot of the Daley Plaza market set up on Gallagher Way next to Wrigley Field, as part of the Winterland season there. It is the one Christkindlmarket that stays open through New Year's Eve.
Columbus Circle Holiday Market
New York, New York · Downtown holiday market
Dec 1 to 31, 2026
A row of holiday stalls at the Central Park entrance on Columbus Circle, selling art, jewelry, home goods and treats from local makers. It is one of the four Urbanspace holiday markets in Manhattan.
Buffalo Christmas Market
Buffalo, New York · Downtown holiday market
Nov 27 to Dec 23, 2026
An outdoor Christmas market of wooden chalets with Western New York makers, vintage sellers, holiday food and drink, Santa visits and bookable igloos. For 2026 it moves to a new home in Front Park on the city's West Side.
Cherry Creek Holiday Market
Denver, Colorado · Downtown holiday market
Nov 19 to Dec 24, 2026
An outdoor holiday market of local makers and designers on Fillmore Plaza in the Cherry Creek North shopping district, now in its seventh year, with live music and a heated bar called the Mistletoe Lounge. It sits just north of the Cherry Creek Shopping Center.
Roswell Christmas Market
Roswell, Georgia · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 20 to Dec 23, 2026
A German-style Christmas market on the lawn of historic Bulloch Hall north of Atlanta, run by a Munich-based events group with the city, with mulled wine, German food, wooden stalls and Santa photos on weekends.
Grand Rapids Christmas Market
Grand Rapids, Michigan · German-style Christkindlmarket
Nov 18 to Dec 24, 2026
A European-style Christmas market in its fourth year, with more than 60 gift and food vendors in an outdoor village of stalls at the Downtown Market, plus glühwein, curling and private Alpenglobe rentals.
Savannah Christmas Market
Savannah, Georgia · Downtown holiday market
Nov 19, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027
A European-style outdoor holiday market of vendor stalls along Savannah's riverfront at Plant Riverside District, open daily for about six weeks with live performances, Santa visits and a tree lighting on Nov. 27.
Pittsburgh Christmas Market
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Downtown holiday market
Nov 20 to Dec 24, 2026
Downtown Pittsburgh's holiday market, now in its 15th year, fills Market Square with Alpine-style wooden chalets selling gifts from late November to Christmas Eve, opening around Light Up Night.
Search figures: average US Google searches a month for each market's name, from DataForSEO, October 2026.