Okay, okay: we know it’s not even Christmas yet. But while you’ve been stressing out about buying presents and decorating the tree, we’ve been looking ahead. Because it turns out that 2025 is going to be a bit of a vintage year for the UK, filled with new theatre openings, massive international festivals making their British debut as well as glowed up art galleries and much, much more.
From the highlands of Scotland to the English channel, we’ve rounded up all of the best new things planned for 2025 – plus any really great openings from the end of this year which you’ve probably not got round to checking out yet. We have the great outdoors, we have sport, we have dancefloors, we have booze, we even have sumo wrestling. Use this as an opportunity to get excited for the year ahead: these are Time Out’s best new things to do in the UK in 2025.
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