- Lights of Lobethal2026: 2026 dates not yet publishedFree (some festival events ticketed)
- Peg & Bill's Christmas Lane2026: runs from the second Sunday of December to New Year's Eve each year (organiser)Free
🧒 With kids
- Lights of Lobethal · Lobethal
- Peg & Bill's Christmas Lane · Lobethal
- Hahndorf Christmas Village · Hahndorf
- Ninth Avenue Christmas Lights · Adelaide
✨ Date night
- Lights of Lobethal · Lobethal
- Hahndorf Christmas Village · Hahndorf
- Ninth Avenue Christmas Lights · Adelaide
🎉 With friends
- Hahndorf Christmas Village · Hahndorf
- Ninth Avenue Christmas Lights · Adelaide
Lights festival
IllustrationLights festival · Lobethal
Lights of Lobethal
For over 70 years the whole Adelaide Hills town has lit up its houses and main street for Christmas — with a festival of markets, music and a Christmas pageant.
🧒 With kids✨ Date nightWhat's there
- A whole town lit up for 70+ years
- Peg & Bill's Christmas Lane
- Handmade Christmas Market at Fabrik
- Christmas pageant on the main street
South Australia's classic Christmas-lights night — go on a weeknight to avoid traffic jams.
- 2026
- 2026 dates not yet published
- Last season
- 12–22 Dec 2025
- Cost
- Free (some festival events ticketed)
Getting there and parking
- About 40 minutes' drive from Adelaide; expect queues into town on weekend nights.
Worth knowing
- A dry zone applies in the town during the festival.
Christmas street
IllustrationChristmas street · Lobethal
Peg & Bill's Christmas Lane
A handmade family Christmas display that Bill and Peg Chartres have put on for more than 35 years — windows, figures and lights children can walk past.
🧒 With kidsWhat's there
- Handmade displays
- Christmas windows for children
- Part of the Lights of Lobethal
What visitors sayGoogle 4.9 ★ · 92 reviews
Reviewers adore it — a three-month labour of love by an elderly couple, with detailed miniature Christmas villages in the windows; families have come for three generations. The only complaint is the queue: on busy nights you may wait a long time to reach the windows, so arrive before 10pm. Donations go to local charities.
The heart of the Lobethal lights — a must with young children.
- 2026
- runs from the second Sunday of December to New Year's Eve each year (organiser)
- Last season
- 12–31 Dec 2025, 8.30–11pm
- Cost
- Free
Getting there and parking
- In Lobethal; park in town and walk.