Christmas events 2025
Light up your festive season with our guide to Christmas light switch-ons and shopping events taking place across the borough.
Balham
Singing by local schools and choirs and Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Sunday 30 November
- Time: 1 to 5pm (switch-on at 5pm)
- Location: Bedford Hill
Battersea
Battersea High Street mini Christmas market and lights switch-on.
- Date: Saturday 15 November
- Time: 12 noon to 4pm (lights switch-on at 3.45pm)
- Location: Battersea High Street
Carols in The Square: singing by local school and choirs, Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Tuesday 2 December
- Time: 6.30 to 8pm (lights switch-on at 6.45pm)
- Location: Battersea Square
Established in 2012, the RCASU indoor market showcases bespoke items from the creative minds of RCA artists and designers - ceramics, jewellery, print, zines, illustrations, textiles and much more.
- Date: Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 December
- Time: 1 to 8pm
- Location: RCA Hangar, Studio Building, Howie Street, SW11 4AS
Winter Warmer: singing by local schools, free activities, and warm refreshments for all in York Gardens Library.
- Date: Tue 9 December
- Time: 3.30 to 6pm
- Location: Pennethorne Square, Wye Street and York Gardens Library
Bellevue Road
Finton School and Trinity Road Chapel singing carol, Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Friday 5 December
- Time: 4 to 5pm (switch-on at 4.30pm)
- Location: Bellevue Road
Clapham Junction
Clapham Junction Christmas lights switch-on. There is no event.
- Date: Friday 21 November
- Time: Lights switch-on at 5pm
- Location: Clapham Junction
Furzedown
Local schools singing and Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Friday 5 December
- Time: 3 to 5.30pm (switch-on at 4pm)
- Location: Furzedown
Northcote Road
Carol singing by local schools and Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Friday 21 November
- Time: 3 to 5pm (lights switch-on at 5pm)
- Location: Northcote Road and Abyssinia Close
Putney
Putney Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Friday 28 November
- Time: 6pm
- Location: Putney
Ice sculptures around the town centre.
- Date: Saturday 29 November
- Time: All day
- Location: Putney town centre
See Christmas in Putney 2025 (Positively Putney).
Roehampton
Carol singing by local schools and Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Thursday 27 November
- Time: 3 to 4.30pm (lights switch-on at 3.45pm)
- Location: Danebury Avenue, Roehampton
Southfields
Mini Christmas market stalls, singing by local schools and Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Wednesday 3 December
- Location: Southfields
Timings
- Christmas market from 3 to 6.30pm
- Schools singing on stage at 4.30pm
- Lights switch-on at 5pm
Tooting
Outdoor Christmas market in church grounds, performances from local schools, live music and Christmas tree lights switch-on.
- Date: Thursday 4 December
- Time: 4 to 8pm (lights switch-on at 4.30pm)
- Location: Church Lane, Tooting
Wandsworth
Christmas lights switch-on.
- Date: Saturday 6 December
- Time: Lights switch-on at 5pm
- Location: Southside piazza
Age UK Wandsworth’s Christmas Carol Concert features traditional carols, Bach’s festive organ music, and the Union Chapel Voices gospel choir with fresh takes on classics and new seasonal pieces.
- Date: Thursday 11 December
- Time: 6 to 7pm
- Location: St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Church, SW18 2QU