🎄 Alsace Christmas Markets dates 2025: Opening Times, hour and ?

Guide to Opening times, hour, highlight for Alsace Christmas Markets dates in famous places: Colmar, Strasbourg, Eguisheim, Obernai, Kayserberg, Riquewihr and more than…

Alsace is the most popular destination for visiting Christmas markets in Europe. It has the oldest market in Europe is Strasbourg, and several villages also join in the celebrations, which has greatly boosted the tourist image of this French region.

This region combines the best of French expertise in promoting carefully curated tourist destinations with the best of German Christmas tradition. And this is not surprising, given that this region has been part of both countries over the years.

This deeply rooted Christmas tradition has even given rise to its own characters, such as Saint Nicholas, Hans Trapp and Christkindel, and its Advent cuisine, which is also not to be outdone.

From Alsace Christmas Markets…

⭐ Mulhouse Christmas market

A colorful atmosphere for this Christmas market focused on crafts and the textile heritage.

• Location: Place de la Réunion
• Dates: daily from 21 November to 27 December 2025.
• Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 20:00 and until 21:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. 24 December from 10:00 to 18:00. Closed on 25 December.

⭐ Munster Christmas Markets

Christmas Market in Munster center

Christmas market in the heart of the valley

• Location: Pl. du Marché, 68140 Munster
• Dates: 21.11. – 23.12.2025
• Opening hours:

November 21 to December 21:

Friday: 11am to 8pm
Saturday: 10am to 8pm
Sunday: 10am to 7pm

December 22 to December 23: 10am to 7pm

Wednesday, December 24: 10am to 4pm

Friday, December 26: 2pm to 7pm

December 27 to December 30: 10am to 7pm

Wednesday December 31: 10am to 4pm

Christmas market in Soultzbach-les-Bains

Christmas market in the smallest medieval village in Alsace

• Location: in the village, 68230 Soultzbach les Bains
• Dates: Saturday 29 and sunday 30 November 2025
• Opening hours:

Saturday: 2pm to 7pm

Sunday: 2pm to 7pm

⭐ Eguisheim Christmas Markets 

Christmas in one of the most beautiful villages in Alsace. One of the most photographed spots is the corner of Le Pigeonnier.

• Location: Place du Chateau and more
• Dates: From 28 November to 30 December. Closed on 25 and 26 December.
• Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. On 24 December from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed on 25 and 26 December.

⭐ Turckheim Christmas Market

Elves are the stars of its Christmas market – the “Marché de Noël des Lutins”

• Location: Place de l’Église
• Dates: 28 November to 30 December. Closed on 25 and 26 December.
• Opening hours:

Advent calendar opening: 1 to 24 December, every afternoon at 5:00 p.m.

⭐ Colmar Christmas Market

Europe’s most famous Christmas markets

• Dates: 26 November to 29 December 2025
• Opening hours: Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Location: Place des Dominicains Market, Place de l’Ancienne Douane Christmas Market, Koïfhus Market, Place de Jean de l’Arc Christmas Market, Cathedral Gourmet Christmas Market.

⭐ Neuf-Brisach Christmas Market

Dressed in period costumes, they invite you to travel back in time to the era of Vauban. The Village 1700 welcomes you on the second weekend of December!

• Location: La Place Forte
• Dates: 12th, 13th and 14th December 2025
• Opening hours:

12th: 2pm to 8pm

13th: 10am to 9pm

14th: 10am to 6.30pm

⭐ Kayserberg Christmas Market

Soak up the spirit of Alsatian Christmas

• Location: 39 Rue du Général de Gaulle
• Dates: open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 28 November to 21 December (from 28 to 30 November; from 5 to 7 December, from 12 to 14 December and from 19 to 21 December.
• Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

⭐ Riquewihr Christmas Market

Christmas in the “village of Beauty and the Beast”

• Location: Rue du General de Gaulle
• Dates: 28 November to 21 December 2025.
• Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Weekends (Saturday and Sunday), 10:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

⭐ Ribeauvillé Christmas Market

Welcome to medieval Christmas in Alsace!

• Location: Grand’Rue, 68150 Ribeauvillé
• Dates: Saturday and Sunday, 6 and 7 December and 13 and 14 December 2025.
• Opening hours: 10:00 to 19:00.

⭐ Bergheim Christmas Market

Market in a nice setting put together inside its medieval fortification, its winding streets, and its old houses (winemakers houses dating from the 15th to the 17th century)…

• Location: Place du Docteur Walter
• Dates: 28 to 30 November and 5 to 7 December 2025.
• Opening hours: Friday from 4 pm to 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 9 pm.

⭐ Sélestat Christmas Market

The town with the oldest mention of a Christmas tree, with records dating back to 1521.

• Location: Place d’Armes
• Dates: 21 November to 28 December 2025
• Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 24 December from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed on 25 December.

⭐ Barr Christmas Market

A small town offering an authentic Alsatian Christmas experience

• Location: Place del Hotel de la Ville.
• Dates: 6 and 7 December and 13 and 14 December 2025.
• Opening hours: to be confirmed.

⭐ Obernai Christmas Market

Crafts and foodie atmosphere at the Christmas markets in Obernai

• Location: Place du Marchée (and more).
• Dates: from 28 November to 31 December 2025.
• Opening hours: Daily from 10:00 to 20:00, Friday 24 December and 31 December from 10:00 to 16:00.
  Closed: 25 December.

⭐ Strasbourg Christmas Markets

The Christmas capital of Alsace. The streets and main monuments of the city are illuminated and its 11 Christmas markets open throughout the city with more than 300 chalets.

• Dates: 26 November to 21 December 2025.
• Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 11:00 to 21:00 (general opening hours).
• Location: 11 markets in the city

Christkindelsmärik Market (Place Broglie), Nôtre-Dame Cathedral Market, Alsace Christmas Delicacies Market (Place du Marché aux Poissons), Christmas Market on Place Benjamin Zix (Petite France), Christmas Market on Place Saint Thomas, Off de Nöel (Place Grimmeissein).

⭐ Haguenau Christmas markets

Christmas in the gateway to northern Alsace

• Location: Place de la République
• Dates: 22 November to 30 December 2025.
• Opening hours: Monday and Tuesday from 2pm to 7pm, Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 7pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 8pm. On 24 December, it will be open from 10am to 4pm, and it will be closed on 25 and 26 December.

…To Gertwiller – the capital of gingerbread 🍪

Gertwiller is a small village with a long tradition of wine-making. Surrounded by vineyards, it does not hold large Christmas markets. If you are planning a tour of Alsace, it may be worth a visit on your way to the popular Christmas market in Obernai and near the charming village of Barr.

So why visit it on a Christmas tour of Alsace? Because here you can buy gingerbread and Alsatian biscuits in all shapes and sizes in the village’s two century-old shops: the Musée du Pain d’Épices and the Palais du Pain d’Épices, a boutique belonging to the popular French brand Fortwenger.

Both buildings are every child’s sweet dream (and the one we carry inside us). Admission to the Musée du Pain d’Épices is included with the Alsace Pass. It has a small shop selling all kinds of sweets and a museum dedicated to this product, which has a special tradition in Alsace.

At the entrance to the village, the giant Mannele of the Palais du Pain d’Épices makes it clear that everything here is on a grand scale. Inside, you’ll enjoy yourself like a child in a sweet shop with the full range of biscuits and gingerbread in all shapes and sizes.