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Christmas lights · Kolkata

Christmas lights in Kolkata 2026

Park Street Christmas Lights, Bow Barracks Christmas Lights. We add the 2026 dates as soon as they are announced.

2 places · checked October 2026

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  • Strings of Christmas lights stretched across Park Street, Kolkata, at dusk📷 Amartyabag · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Yellow taxis under the festive light canopy on Park Street, KolkataChristmas light strings and decorations along Park Street at night, Kolkata

    📷 Amartyabag · CC BY-SA 3.0

    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.

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    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.

    Dates
    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
  • Bow Barracks Christmas Lights, KolkataIllustration

    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.

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    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.

    Dates
    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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