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…
District 1881 is downtown Chilliwack’s little pedestrian quarter of shops, cafés and lanes, and at Christmas it goes all in: a 40-foot…
Walk into the Christmas Store at Potters in November and it’s a little overwhelming, in the best way. Potters Nursery in Surrey…
Down in the city it’s probably raining. Ride the Skyride up Grouse Mountain in December, though, and there’s a decent chance you’ll…
For a few Decembers, the PNE grounds in East Vancouver, better known for the summer fair, turned into a winter carnival: a…
Festive Village feels like stepping into an old Christmas card. Burnaby Village Museum is a 10-acre recreated village of the 1920s in…
Most Vancouver Christmas markets lean German: gluhwein, gingerbread, wooden stalls. Feliz Natal goes somewhere warmer.…
Bright Nights is built by firefighters. More than a thousand of them volunteer their time…
Surrey’s Christmas season starts with a weekend at City Hall. For two days in November,…
For a lot of Vancouverites, Christmas meant one particular thing: lining up in the cold…
Steveston does Christmas the way a fishing village should: lights on the boats and storefronts,…
In December 2025, Metropolis at Metrotown tried something new: an outdoor artisan market on the…
For years, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston filled its old canning floor with…
For one winter, a lavender farm in Richmond turned purple in a whole new way.…
In December 2024, Oakridge Park sent Santa around Vancouver in a modernized sleigh. Families could…
Before Zoo Lights, there was Arctic Nights. In December 2024, the Greater Vancouver Zoo in…