European Christmas Markets 2026: Vienna Nov. 13, Nuremberg Nov. 27

Vienna’s Christkindlmarkt am Rathausplatz and Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens Christmas open Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, Cologne’s cathedral market opens Monday, Nov. 16, and Nuremberg’s Christkindlesmarkt and Strasbourg’s market open Friday, Nov. 27, according to each organizer’s own site. Prague’s Old Town Square market starts Saturday, Nov. 28. The table below gives each market’s hours in local time and in ET, plus its Dec. 24 hours, and a one-page planner is at the end.

Europe runs 6 hours ahead of ET on all these dates, computed from the European Union and U.S. clock rules (the EU changed its clocks on Oct. 25, 2026, the U.S. on Nov. 1). Central European Time (CET) is UTC+1; Eastern Standard Time is UTC-5. Copenhagen and Prague are also on CET.

How do the six European Christmas markets compare?

Market	Opens	Last day	Hours (local)	Same in ET	Dec. 24	Closed days
Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt	Fri., Nov. 27	Thu., Dec. 24	10 a.m.-9 p.m. daily; opening day 10 a.m.-10 p.m.	4 a.m.-3 p.m.; opening day 4 a.m.-4 p.m.	10 a.m.-2 p.m. (4-8 a.m. ET)	None listed
Vienna Christkindlmarkt	Fri., Nov. 13	Sat., Dec. 26	10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily	4 a.m.-4 p.m.	10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. (4 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET)	None listed
Strasbourg Christkindelsmärik	Fri., Nov. 27	Thu., Dec. 24	11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. daily; different hours Dec. 11, 12, 18 and 19	5:30 a.m.-3 p.m.	11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. (5:30 a.m.-noon ET)	No chalet open Dec. 25 or until New Year
Cologne Cathedral market	Mon., Nov. 16	Wed., Dec. 23	Sun.-Wed. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Thu.-Fri. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-10 p.m.	Sun.-Wed. 5 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thu.-Fri. 5 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat. 4 a.m.-4 p.m.	Closed (last day Dec. 23)	Sun., Nov. 22
Prague Old Town Square	Sat., Nov. 28	Wed., Jan. 6, 2027	Hours not posted	Not posted	Hours not posted	None listed
Tivoli Gardens Christmas	Fri., Nov. 13 (opens 11:00)	Sun., Jan. 3, 2027	Hours not posted	Opening day 5 a.m. ET	Hours not posted	None listed

Sources: the six organizers’ sites in the first column, read Nov. 11, 2026. Weekdays and ET times are our computation; “None listed” means the page names no closed day.

Which markets are open on which dates?

All six overlap from Saturday, Nov. 28 to Wednesday, Dec. 23, by our count. Cologne closes after Dec. 23, Nuremberg and Strasbourg after Thursday, Dec. 24, and Vienna after Saturday, Dec. 26. Only Prague and Tivoli run past Christmas, to Jan. 6, 2027 and Jan. 3, 2027.

Before Nov. 27, only Vienna, Tivoli and Cologne are open (Cologne from Nov. 16, closed Sunday, Nov. 22). Counted date by date, Vienna has 44 days between opening and closing, Nuremberg and Strasbourg 28 each, and Cologne 37 after the Nov. 22 closure.

Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt 2026 dates and hours

The City of Nuremberg’s market site gives “27. November bis 24. Dezember 2026” on the Hauptmarkt. Hours are “Montag bis Sonntag 10 bis 21 Uhr”, with the opening day, Nov. 27, running “10 bis 22 Uhr”. The opening ceremony with the Prologue is on Nov. 27 at 5:30 p.m. local time (11:30 a.m. ET). On “Heilig Abend”, Dec. 24, the market is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Vienna Christkindlmarkt 2026 dates and hours

The Wiener Christkindlmarkt am Rathausplatz lists “13. November bis 26. Dezember 2026” and “Täglich 10 bis 22 Uhr”. Dec. 24 is the one exception on the page: 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The page does not list Dec. 25 or Dec. 26 separately, so the daily hours are the only ones it gives for those days.

Strasbourg Christmas market 2026 dates and hours

The City of Strasbourg’s questions page says the market runs “du vendredi 27 novembre au jeudi 24 décembre 2026”, “de 11h30 à 21h00 tous les jours”, with different hours on Dec. 11, 12, 18 and 19. The page we read does not give those hours here, so check the city’s questions page for them. On Thursday, Dec. 24, the market closes at 6 p.m., and the page adds: “Aucun chalet n’est ouvert le 25 décembre ni jusqu’au Nouvel An.”

Cologne Cathedral Christmas market 2026 dates and hours

The Weihnachtsmarkt am Kölner Dom opens Monday, Nov. 16 and closes Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2026; the market’s page labels Dec. 23 with “Di” (Tuesday), but the date falls on a Wednesday. Hours are “So-Mi 11-21 Uhr”, “Do-Fr 11-22 Uhr” and “Sa 10-22 Uhr”. The site says: “Am Totensonntag, den 22.11.2026 ist der Markt geschlossen.” The market closes before Dec. 24, and its page gives no Dec. 24 hours.

Prague Old Town Square Christmas market 2026

Prague City Tourism lists the Old Town Square Christmas market as “28. 11. 2026—6. 1. 2027”, which is Saturday, Nov. 28 to Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2027. Daily hours are not posted on the page we read, so none are given here. A tree-lighting time is not confirmed either.

Tivoli Gardens Christmas in Copenhagen 2026

Tivoli’s Christmas page gives “13 November - 3 January” and says the season opens “13 November at 11:00”, which is 5 a.m. ET. It lists “Christmas Fireworks” on “25 – 26 December” and New Year’s Eve fireworks on “31 December at 23:00” (5 p.m. ET). Daily hours, Dec. 24 and Dec. 25 opening and any entry fee amount are not given on the page; Tivoli lists some events as included in the entrance fee.

European Christmas market dates to mark on a planner

The printable lists each market’s dates, daily hours and Dec. 24 closing, with the Prague and Tivoli hours marked as not posted. Print it, then add the dates to the November 2026 printable calendar and the December 2026 printable calendar.

For markets closer to home, see the UK Christmas markets, the U.S. Christmas markets and Christkindlmarket Chicago. Organizers can change hours; we read all six pages on Nov. 11, 2026.