08:00 – 17:00

Victoria Street (Deansgate to Cathedral Approach)​

Market Street (Cross Street to Exchange Street)​

St Mary’s Gate (Exchange Street to Deansgate)​

Cateaton Street (Deansgate to Exchange Square)​

11:00 – 15:00

Victoria Bridge Street (Chapel Street to Deansgate)​

Deansgate (Victoria Street to John Dalton)​

John Dalton (Southgate to Clarence Street)​

Cross Street (John Dalton to Corporation Street)

Manchester City Council event:

Manchester’s free Christmas Parade, the best of its kind in the UK, will once again bring joy to thousands of spectators, young and old.

This year’s event will be bigger and better than ever with over 400 participants: be amazed by Mistletoe dancing mice, horse-riding elves on stilts, an oversized polar bear, Christmas robins, robot drummers, a toe-tapping hip hop elf, airborne puppetry, and so much more.

The highlights of this year’s parade will include Manchester’s very own Elf Express – a spectacular train with carriages full of elves – and the return of the enchanting Snow Queen.