Ljubljana Christmas Market 2026 (December in Ljubljana)

European-style market

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  📷 Oleg Brovko from Trieste, Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0

  European-style market · Ljubljana

  Festive Fair in Ljubljana (December in Ljubljana)

  Wooden huts with gifts, mulled wine and food along the Ljubljanica - at Breg, Petkovsek Embankment and Gallus Embankment - plus festive lights, concerts and the lights switch-on at the end of November.

  ✨ Date night🎉 With friends🧒 With kids

  What's there

  • ★Gift huts at Breg, Pogacar Square and in the castle courtyard
  • ★Mulled wine and food along the Ljubljanica - from the Cankar and Gallus Embankments to Congress Square and Presern Square
  • ★Lights switch-on on the last Friday of November at 17:00, an 18-metre spruce with 8 km of lights
  • ★Concerts on Pogacar Square, New Square and Town Square, New Year's Eve party on Congress Square
  • ★Grandfather Frost's hut in Zvezda Park

  The biggest festive fair in Slovenia - come on a weekday evening, when the lights are on and the riverside is not crowded.

  2026

  27 Nov 2026 - 15 Jan 2027 (December in Ljubljana)

  Last season

  28 Nov - 31 Dec 2025

  Cost

  Free entry; you pay for food and drink.

  Getting there and parking

  • The fair is spread through the pedestrian zone of the Old Town - on foot from Presern Square.
  • By LPP city buses to the centre; in December LPP strengthens the main lines and runs all night on 31 December.

  Worth knowing

  • 2025: lights switch-on 28 November at 17:00, fair until 31 December, decorations until 15 January 2026.
  • Gifts are at Breg and Pogacar Square, food huts on the embankments and squares - a walk from the Triple Bridge to Congress Square covers almost everything.

  Breg, Pogacarjev trg, Presernov and Kongresni trg, Cankarjevo and Gallusovo nabrezje, LjubljanaOfficial site