Christmas in Vancouver is mostly wet, often mild and very well lit. What the city lacks in snow it makes up for…
Vancouver doesn’t get much snow, but it does get long, dark December evenings, and the region makes the most of them. Between…
There’s no single Santa in Vancouver. He’s on top of Grouse Mountain, in a yurt on Mount Seymour, in a gazebo on…
Looking for Christmas things to do in Vancouver this weekend? Here’s every weekend of the 2026 holiday season in one place, from…
Christmas in Vancouver is full of lights and markets, but for many families in the region it’s also a hard time of…
Out in the fields of Chilliwack’s Greendale, a farm turns into a Christmas village for a few weeks every winter: glowing paths,…
Commercial Drive does Christmas its own way: no big ticketed show, just a neighbourhood afternoon at Grandview Park with free photos with…
Not every Christmas outing needs to be loud. WinterFest at the Museum of Surrey in Cloverdale is a free, calm holiday celebration:…
In just a few years, HollyDaze has gone from a small gathering on LeBleu Avenue to one of the biggest free holiday…
There’s a particular hush that falls over the crowd outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on the last Friday in November, right before…
A ten-level Christmas tree, with more than 80 singers standing in its branches, is not…
Plenty of places will give a child a photo with Santa. Very few do it…
There is a particular kind of Christmas outing that works best with small children: it…
For a few winters now, a Ferris wheel has turned on the North Plaza of…
Every December, a certain kind of Vancouver family heads downtown in good coats, a little…
Most Christmas train rides in Metro Vancouver are miniature trains that loop around a park.…
Most Vancouver Christmas attractions ask you to buy a ticket and pick a time slot.…
On the longest night of the year, a lot of Vancouver walks outside in the…
The old Stanley Park miniature railway site, where the Bright Nights train used to run,…
Gastown is already one of the best-looking corners of Vancouver without any help: cobblestones, brick…