Christmas lights in Kolkata 2026

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  Christmas street · Kolkata

  Park Street Christmas Lights

  India's best-known Christmas street: Park Street is lit end to end and becomes walk-only in the evenings, with a tunnel of lights, a nativity and live carols in Allen Park during the state-backed Kolkata Christmas Festival.

  🎉 With friends✨ Date night🧒 With kids

  What's there

  • ★Lights the length of Park Street
  • ★Tunnel of lights and nativity in Allen Park
  • ★Live carols and bands
  • ★Food and cake stalls

  What visitors say

  Visitors to Allen Park call it a must at Christmas: dazzling lights, a detailed nativity, food stalls and live music on stage. Around 25 and 31 December the crowd becomes overwhelming, and pickpockets are a known problem.

  Unmissable once — go on a weekday evening before 24 December.

  Last season

  Kolkata Christmas Festival 18–23 Dec 2025; street lights through Christmas and New Year

  Cost

  Free

  Getting there and parking

  • Park Street, Kolkata.

  Worth knowing

  • Allen Park is usually closed on 24 and 25 December itself.
  • Keep phones and wallets zipped away.

  Park Street (Mother Teresa Sarani) and Allen Park, KolkataOfficial site
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  Christmas street · Kolkata

  Bow Barracks Christmas Lights

  The red-brick barracks of Kolkata's Anglo-Indian quarter are strung with fairy lights and stars for Christmas, with music and homemade-food stalls in the lane.

  🎉 With friends✨ Date night

  What's there

  • ★Fairy lights on 18th-century red-brick buildings
  • ★Decorated homes
  • ★Live music and street party on 25 December
  • ★Homemade cakes and wine

  What visitors sayGoogle 4.6 ★ · 266 reviews

  Reviewers find it more authentic and less crowded than Park Street — lights against the old red buildings, decorated homes and non-stop live music — though it gets very busy on the evening of the 25th.

  The warmest Christmas lights in Kolkata — a perfect second stop after Park Street.

  Last season

  Christmas week (Christmas Eve to New Year)

  Cost

  Free

  Getting there and parking

  • Bow Barracks, off Bowbazar Street, Kolkata.

  Worth knowing

  • Try the chhana cake at J.N. Barua.

  Bow Barracks, off Bowbazar Street, KolkataOfficial site

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