# US Christmas Markets 2026 in Numbers > US Christmas markets 2026 in numbers: 586 with confirmed dates, the busiest day, Thanksgiving and after-Christmas openings. Free to quote, with CSV. Source: https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/numbers/ When America's Christmas markets open, how many are open on Thanksgiving, the busiest day of the season and how many are still running after Christmas: counted from the 586 markets whose organizers have published 2026 dates, each read on the organizer's own page. **586** markets with 2026 dates confirmed, in all 50 states and DC **257** open on Saturday, December 5, the busiest day **19** open on Thanksgiving Day **94%** finish by Christmas Eve **54%** are free to enter ## Ready to Quote Each line stands on its own. Please credit Best Christmas Markets USA (bestchristmasmarketsusa.com) and link to this page. Figures as of November 5, 2026; they update as more organizers announce. - Of the 570 US Christmas markets that publish their 2026 days, 257 are open on Saturday, December 5, the busiest day of the season. - Only 19 of the 570 US Christmas markets that publish their 2026 days are open on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, though 62 are already in their season by then; 100 are open on Black Friday. - 35% of US Christmas markets open before Thanksgiving this year; the busiest week for openings is the week of Nov 30, when 199 open. - 70% of US Christmas markets last three days or fewer in 2026, and 143 of the 586 are a single day. - 94% of the 586 US Christmas markets with 2026 dates finish by Christmas Eve; 37 carry on after Christmas Day and 16 are still running on New Year's Eve. - 54% of the 389 US Christmas markets that state their entry terms for 2026 are free to walk into. - New York has the most Christmas markets of any US state (44), followed by Texas (36) and California (33). - 63 of the 586 US Christmas markets with 2026 dates are German-style Christkindlmarkets. - 215 of the 525 US Christmas markets that publish their 2026 hours stay open until 8 pm or later on at least one day. [Download every market as a spreadsheet (CSV, 586 rows)](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/numbers/us-christmas-markets-2026.csv) ## When Christmas Markets Open Markets opening each week, by the Monday of the week. The first to open in 2026 is [Fort Worth Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/fort-worth-christmas-in-cowtown/), on Thursday, October 8. [When do Christmas markets open?](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/when-do-christmas-markets-open/) has the week-by-week list. | Oct 5 | 1 | | --- | --- | | Oct 12 | 1 | | Oct 26 | 2 | | Nov 2 | 35 | | Nov 9 | 52 | | Nov 16 | 113 | | Nov 23 | 91 | | Nov 30 | 199 | | Dec 7 | 83 | | Dec 14 | 9 | ## The Busiest Saturdays Markets open on each Saturday of the season. Most markets are open on weekends, so Saturdays show how the season builds and then falls away before Christmas. | Nov 7 | 35 | | --- | --- | | Nov 14 | 54 | | Nov 21 | 121 | | Nov 28 | 135 | | Dec 5 | 257 | | Dec 12 | 184 | | Dec 19 | 97 | | Dec 26 | 28 | ## Thanksgiving and After Christmas 19 markets are open on Thanksgiving Day and 100 on Black Friday ([open Thanksgiving weekend](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/thanksgiving-weekend/)). 37 are still running after December 25 and 16 on New Year's Eve ([open after Christmas](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/christmas-markets-open-after-christmas/)). ## Christmas Markets by State Every market we list, confirmed or not, by state. [Christmas markets by state](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/states/). | New York | 44 | | --- | --- | | Texas | 36 | | California | 33 | | Pennsylvania | 30 | | Ohio | 30 | | Tennessee | 26 | | Virginia | 25 | | Florida | 23 | | Michigan | 20 | | Wisconsin | 19 | | Illinois | 18 | | Massachusetts | 17 | | North Carolina | 17 | | Colorado | 16 | | Washington | 14 | ## The Most Searched The ten markets with the most Google searches a month in the US: [Chicago Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/chicago-christkindlmarket/), [Koziar's Christmas Village](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/bernville-koziars-christmas-village/), [Seattle Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/seattle/), [Philadelphia Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/philadelphia-christmas-village/), [Denver Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/denver-christkindlmarket/), [Carmel Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/carmel-christkindlmarkt/), [Leavenworth Christmas Village](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/leavenworth-christmastown/), [Atlanta Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/atlanta-christkindl-market/), [Union Square Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/new-york-union-square/) and [Bethlehem Christmas Market](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/markets/bethlehem-christkindlmarkt/). [The best Christmas markets in the USA](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/best/). ## How We Count Every figure is counted from the markets on this site whose organizer has published 2026 dates: 586 of them, plus 54 still waiting for their dates. A market counts as open on a day when the day falls inside its published dates and is not one of its closed days; 570 of the 586 publish their days in full. The sources are the organizers' own pages, checked daily ([how we check](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/how-we-check/)). Search figures are average monthly US Google searches for each market's name, from DataForSEO, October 2026. Journalists: the figures are free to use with a credit and a link; [contact us](https://bestchristmasmarketsusa.com/contact/) for anything else.