{"id":555152,"date":"2025-11-07T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555152\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:09:17","slug":"when-will-covent-gardens-christmas-lights-be-turned-on-for-2025-switch-on-date-for-iconic-london-festive-display-is-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555152\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will Covent Garden\u2019s Christmas Lights Be Turned on for 2025? Switch On Date For Iconic London Festive Display is Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s now much less than\u00a0two months\u00a0until Christmas. And while we\u2019ve only just got past\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/things-to-do\/halloween-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/things-to-do\/bonfire-night-fireworks-displays-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bonfire Night<\/a>\u00a0London is fully preparing\u00a0for the festive season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/theatre\/christmas-pantomimes-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pantomimes<\/a> are being announced, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/things-to-do\/ice-skating-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ice rinks<\/a> are open for bookings and choirs across the capital are warming up their vocals\u00a0ahead of some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/opera-classical\/christmas-carol-concerts-in-london-choral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">magical carol concerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Christmas\u00a0doesn\u2019t truly start in\u00a0London until its thousands of glimmering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/things-to-do\/christmas-lights-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuletide lights<\/a> are set aglow. Now, the switch-on date of one of the city\u2019s most iconic Christmas light displays has been revealed, as\u00a0<strong>Covent Garden<\/strong> has confirmed when its lights will dazzle for 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Out\u2019s guide to Christmas in London 2025<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 300,000 lights will dazzle across the Piazza, Seven Dials, Neal\u2019s Yard and surrounding streets. The shining golden bells lining the roof of the Market Building will be back,\u00a0as will\u00a0the sparkling 55ft British-grown Christmas tree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Covent Garden is also bringing back its Christmas-themed cocktail bar Miracle at Henrietta Experimental for the occasion. Stationed at 10 Henrietta Street, it\u2019ll be\u00a0double the size of last year\u2019s bar, with cocktails like the Christmapolitan and Snowball Old Fashioned on offer. It opens for business on November 10 and is available to book right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Covent Garden Christmas lights switch-on date<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Covent Garden\u2019s Christmas lights come to life on <strong>Wednesday, November 12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ICYMI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/news\/the-exact-date-that-winter-wonderland-will-return-to-londons-hyde-park-for-christmas-2025-091025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the exact date that Winter Wonderland will return to London\u2019s Hyde Park for Christmas 2025<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VabxG0jK0IBqoptkHH3i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay in the loop: sign up to our\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/newsletter?cid=uk~editorial~acquisition~newsletter~contentlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>free Time Out London newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s now much less than\u00a0two months\u00a0until Christmas. And while we\u2019ve only just got past\u00a0Halloween and Bonfire Night\u00a0London is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,6419,393,4884,257,10972,6417,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-555152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-categories-things-to-do","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news-events-festivals","14":"tag-things-to-do","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115508580682689679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}