Let your heart become merry and bright through the twinkling lights and dazzling sights of these amazing local holiday markets.

Christmas Markets in Metro Vancouver 2025

Circle Craft Market (Nov 11-16)

Circle Craft Holiday Market, the largest craft fair in Western Canada, returns for another year of seasonal delights!

The popular event is a great place to find handcrafted items and thoughtful holiday gifts for your loved ones. With over 300 artisans around the country, you’re certain to find what you’re looking for.

📅 Date: November 11 – 16, 2025

📍 Location: Vancouver Convention Centre West

Vancouver Christmas Market (Nov 13-Dec 24)

The authentic German Christmas market is considered the pinnacle of Christmas markets in Metro Vancouver.

Take in over 90 artisan huts and vendors selling handcrafted gifts, food products, and more. Enjoy some Glühwein (mulled wine) and soft pretzels, while walking down Lovers Lane, partaking in a market-wide scavenger hunt, or seeing the live entertainment inside the Christmas Pyramid.

📅 Date: November 13 – December 24, 2025

📍 Location: Jack Poole Plaza

Noel Holiday Light Festival & Market (Nov 28 – Dec 23)

The Christmas Market at Noel Festival is a holiday shopper’s dream.

Along with the festive lights, they also feature local vendors selling unique gifts and seasonal favourites, you can check everyone off your holiday list in one place. Noel Surrey is also where Bright Nights will now be held, so be sure to visit the light walk as you reminisce on the wintry season.

📅 Date: November 28 – December 28, 2025

📍 Location: Cloverdale Fairgrounds

Surrey Tree Lighting Festival & Holiday Market (Nov 22-23)

The Surrey Tree Lighting Festival is packed with must-see attractions and events. Along with fun festivities and performances, they also have a holiday Market featuring over 35 local vendors selling unique gifts, crafts, and seasonal treats.

📅 Date: Saturday, November 22 – Sunday, November 23, 2025

📍 Location: Surrey Civic Plaza

Shipyards Christmas Market (Nov 28-Dec 24)

Come celebrate the holiday season with Shipyards Christmas Market, a festive setting filled with sparkling lights and 70 charming wooden stalls offering one-of-a-kind artisanal gifts. Enjoy live holiday music, ice skating, the City’s beautifully decorated Christmas tree, and unwind in our Champagne tent.

Take a trip to Santa’s chalet, enjoy community performances, and savor seasonal treats like bratwursts, mulled wine, and hot cocoa, all while our vendors bring the best of European cuisine to North Vancouver.

📅 Date: November 28 – December 24, 2025

📍 Location: The Shipyards

Japan Market – Christmas Fair (Nov 29-30)

At Japan Market – Christmas Fair, you’ll discover the perfect gift for friends and family, or find something new and unique. Explore a variety of Japanese crafts and products, including jewelry, soap, postcards, notebooks, ceramics, kimono, pouches, charms, tabi socks, and hair accessories. Enjoy delicious treats like pastries, cookies, onigiri rice balls, chocolate, matcha, and much more.

📅 Date: November 29 – 30, 2025

📍 Location: UBC Robson Square

Nikkei Craft Fair (Nov 15-16)

Explore one-of-a-kind Japanese-inspired gifts at the Nikkei Craft Fair, a beloved event showcasing the creativity of local artisans. You’ll find a variety of handcrafted items, such as clothing, accessories, and home décor inspired by Japanese culture.

Visitors can enjoy food trucks, enter door prize drawings, and visit the kids’ booth for Letters to Santa. Community booths and workshops (registration required) round out this festive experience.

📅 Date: November 15 – 16, 2025

📍 Location: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre

Made in the 604 – Fall/Winter Market Series (Dec 6-7)

Discover and shop unique gifts from 45+ local small businesses, artists, and creatives at the Fall/Winter Market Series curated by Made in the 604. Find jewelry, candles, home décor, vintage items, artisanal chocolates, and more!

Entry is free, and dogs are welcome!

📅 Date: December 6 – 7, 2025

📍 Location: Heritage Hall

Silver Harbour Christmas Market (Nov 15)

This holiday event features a delightful collection of handcrafted items made by seniors in our art programs. You’ll find woodworking, stained glass, knitting, quilts, pottery, holiday decorations, puzzles, flower bulbs, thrift store finds, and more. Be sure to stop by the tea room for tasty treats!

📅 Date: November 15, 2025

📍 Location: 144 East 22nd Street, North Vancouver

Swedish Christmas Market (Nov 15-16)

Boasting traditional and current Swedish goods, the Julmarknad is known for its delectable treats. Some of the tasty treats available include glogg, hot dogs, Swedish pastries and open sandwiches.

📅 Date: November 15 – 16, 2025

📍 Location: Scandinavian Community Centre

The Polygon Gallery’s Holiday Shop (Nov 12 – Jan 4)

The Polygon Gallery is pleased to present its Holiday Shop, an annual tradition. The gallery’s main floor will be beautifully decorated and carefully curated with unique gifts by independent makers and artists. Come get festive and shop local at The Polygon this holiday season.

📅 Date: November 12 – January 4, 2026

📍 Location: The Polygon Gallery

Deer Lake Winter Festival (Nov 14-16)

Come celebrate crafts, community, and creativity at this vibrant winter market! The annual event showcases over 40+ local BC artisans and their marvelous works.

Included in the seasonal market are glass blowers, sculptors, and pâtissiers, to jam makers, jewelers, fashion designers, and many more.

📅 Date: November 14 – 16, 2025

📍 Location: Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Steveston Christmas Craft Fair (Nov 22)

This holiday season, bring the whole family to Steveston’s Annual Christmas Craft Fair. You’ll find a wide range of unique, handmade items suitable for all ages. The fair features up to 125 vendors offering handcrafted goods, jewelry, specialty foods, and more. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win exciting raffle prizes!

📅 Date: November 22, 2025

📍 Location: Net Shed behind Steveston Community Centre

Vancouver Etsy Co – Holiday Pop Up Market (Nov 29-30)

The Holiday Pop-Up is back at the Pipe Shop in North Vancouver, bringing together over 90 vendors to help you gear up for the festive season! Discover a mix of well-known and up-and-coming independent brands, artists, designers, and Etsy sellers from across Greater Vancouver.

📅 Date: November 29 – 30, 2025

📍 Location: The Pipe Shop Venue

Got Craft Holiday Market (Nov 22-23)

The Got Craft Holiday Market returns to the Croatian Cultural Centre in East Vancouver weekend. Featuring 95+ small businesses, food trucks, and an expanded mini makers area with “Kidpreneuers” aged 16 years and under.

📅 Date: November 22 – 23, 2025

📍 Location: Croatian Cultural Centre

West End Holiday Craft Fair (Nov 22-23)

This fair is perfect for anyone looking for original, hand-crafted items, as everything on sale is artisan made only. Quaint and cosy, the market hosts about 60 vendors each year.

📅 Date: November 22 – 23, 2025

📍 Location: West End Community Centre

Cloverdale Christmas Craft Fair (Nov 8)

This popular market, has been running for over five years and features around 100 vendors. It showcases handmade crafters alongside a few favorite local entrepreneurs.

📅 Date: November 8, 2025

📍 Location: Shannon Hall & Alice McKay Buildings at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds, 7905 62 Ave #17607, Surrey

Make Change Market (Nov 20)

On November 20, 2025, Make Change Market will be hosted at Heritage Hall in Vancouver, in honour of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Organized by Employ to Empower (ETE) and sponsored by Coast Capital Savings, this pop-up market will feature a variety of products such as handmade bags from recycled materials, artisan soaps, teas, reclaimed wood home goods, and more! The entrepreneurs featured are members of ETE, who are individuals who live with multiple barriers.

📅 Date: November 20, 2025

📍 Location: Heritage Hall

Krampus Market (Dec 5-7)

Step into the old world market that celebrates Krampus, the Christmas baddie. Offerings are wonderfully unexpected & extraordinary, varying from leather, textiles, baskets, chocolate, baked goods, stationary, glass, wall art, perfume, florals, skincare and more.

📅 Date: December 5 – 7, 2025

📍 Location: Strange Fellows Brewing

Seattle Christmas Market

If you’re up for a day trip, you should definitely check out The Seattle Christmas Market. Back for their 2nd season after a popular launch last year. The event promises to transport you to a winter wonderland filled with German-inspired holiday market charm.

This year is featuring a Winterdeck, situated on top of Fisher Pavilion, a double-decker Christmas Carousel, and Santa’s Snow Globe—an igloo-themed structure where Saint Nick will be available for photos.

📅 Date: November 20 – December 24, 2025

📍 Location: Seattle Center

Toque Craft Fair Holiday Market (Dec 5-7)

Toque Craft Fair is a holiday market and fundraiser hosted by Western Front. Explore Western Front’s heritage building, while you shop a curated selection of textiles, ceramics, jewelry, print, accessories, apothecary and homeware by over fifty BC-based artists, craftspeople and designers.

📅 Date: December 5 – 7, 2025

📍 Location: Western Front

Wesbrook Village Holiday Market (Nov 29)

The second annual Wesbrook Village Holiday Market by Live at UBC will feature a variety of local artisan vendors!

Discover unique, handcrafted goods perfect for gifting (or little treats for yourself), and enjoy some delicious bites and beverages from the surrounding eateries and cafés.

📅 Date: November 29, 2025

📍 Location: Norman MacKenzie Square in Wesbrook Village

The Christmas Store at Potters (Nov 1-Dec 24)

Everyone knows it’s the most wonderful time of the year when a garden store transforms into Western Canada’s largest Christmas store. At a sprawling 28,000 square-feet, the iconic store has something for everyone on your “nice” list.

📅 Date: November 1 – December 24, 2025

📍 Location: 19158 48th Avenue, Surrey

Tugboat Landing Artisan Market (Dec 6-7)

Tugboat Landing is an intimate and welcoming space with curated and boutique items from 20+ vendors. Some returning favourites include Toon’s Sauces, Ladner Artisan Chocolates, Mad Lab Distillers and Knit Collective.

📅 Date: December 6 – 7, 2025

📍 Location: 2010 East Kent Avenue South, Vancouver

Portobello West Holiday Market (Nov 15-16)

Yaletown’s own pop-up holiday market has wares for anyone looking for fashion, jewelry, art, home décor, skincare, pet accessories, gourmet treats, wine & spirits and more!

Explore a curated selection of quality goods from over 69 local BC makers, including talented artists, designers, and creators.

📅 Date: November 15 – 16, 2025

📍 Location: Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre

10th Annual Port Moody Christmas Craft Fair (Dec 6)

The Port Moody Christmas Craft Fair features more than 40 talented vendors offering a diverse range of products, including gourmet food, greeting cards, soaps, candles, photography, clothing, and jewelry.

📅 Date: December 6, 2025

📍 Location: 100 Newport Drive, Port Moody

Weirdos Holiday Market (Dec 5-7, 12-14)

Truly a one-of-a-kind market, Weirdos Christmas Market has available a wide items range from unusual or intriguing to out of this world, including witchy accessories, quirky clothing, magical ceramics and more.

Another huge draw for the event is the activities, such as live sword-swallowing, visits with Puppyteeth Santa, and eccentric goodies from Punk Rock Pastries. The Friday evening markets are for adults only and promise to be fun and a little naughty.

📅 Date: December 5 – 7, 12 – 14, 2025

📍 Location: 600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver

Make it Vancouver (Dec 4-7, 11-14)

Make It returns to the PNE, offering a delightful festive shopping affair. Discover top-notch handmade goods for giving and receiving, while immersing yourself in the joyous holiday spirit.

Experience food trucks and a vibrant, enjoyable atmosphere suitable for everyone. Make It fosters a welcoming community connecting creators (Makies) with their supporters through engaging stories and conversations.

📅 Date: December 4 – 7, 11 – 14, 2025

📍 Location: PNE Forum

Coquitlam Christmas Night Market (Dec 12, 13, 20)

The 5th annual Coquitlam Christmas night market returns, featuring two epic weekends of shopping and eating delicious food.

Located right outside the Lafarge lake/ Douglas Skytrain station, there is also free parking on site. Visitors can also cap off the night with free light show at Lights at Lafarge.

📅 Date: December 12, 13, 20, 2025

📍 Location: Evergreen Cultural Centre

Vegan Holiday Night Market (Dec 4)

Join for an unforgettable evening at Canada’s premier plant-based night market! You’ll find delectable food and drinks to cruelty-free clothing and cosmetics.

There’s also live acoustic music, a set from a DJ, and a Home Alone screening.

📅 Date: December 4, 2025

📍 Location: 1515 Discovery St., Vancouver

NWFM 5th Annual Winter Market (Dec 13-14)

Come celebrate the holiday season with the 6th Annual Holiday Market in front of New West City Hall! Enjoy shopping from over 80 local artisan and food vendors, offering unique handcrafted gifts and delicious culinary delights. Bring your friends and family for a day of live music, surprise performances, fun children’s activities, and all-around holiday cheer—it’s the perfect way to start the festive season!

📅 Date: December 13 – 14, 2025

📍 Location: Outside New West City Hall

Shop at Glenda’s Christmas Cottage (Now until Dec 23)

Glenda’s Christmas Cottage in Abbotsford is a beloved holiday haven, offering a delightful and enchanting experience for visitors of all ages. With its charming décor and festive ambiance, the cottage creates the perfect setting to explore an array of unique holiday treasures, from ornaments to seasonal gifts. Whether you’re searching for the ideal Christmas gift or simply looking to immerse yourself in the magic of the season, Glenda’s Christmas Cottage is the go-to destination in Abbotsford.\

📅 Date: October 28 – December 23, 2025

📍 Location: 4557 Mt Lehman Road, Abbotsford

 

Source: 604NOW