Last updated: December 01, 2024
Welcome to your complete guide to Christmas events in Östermalm! Here you'll find everything from traditional Christmas markets to festive events that make this district a perfect destination during the winter months.
From the atmospheric Östermalmstorg with its illuminated stalls to the elegant shops along Sibyllegatan and Nybrogatan, the area offers a mix of modern shopping and traditional Christmas celebrations. Visitors can stroll through the historic quarters where Christmas decorations adorn the beautiful turn-of-the-century facades, while the scent of mulled wine and gingerbread spreads from nearby cafés and restaurants.
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OEstermalm Holiday Light Displays
Stockholm Christmas Lights
Stockholmsjul is an annual event where over 40 streets and squares in central Stockholm are decorated with over one million LED lights. Traditional Christmas icons like reindeer, angels, and mistletoe have been given a modern, illuminated makeover.
Nobel Week
Nobel Week Lights is a light festival illuminating Stockholm during the darkest time of the year with light artworks inspired by Nobel Prize laureates' scientific discoveries, literature, and peace work.
OEstermalm Holiday Markets and Shopping
Skansen Christmas Market
Skansens Christmas Market is a historical Christmas market dating back to 1903. You can buy everything from handicrafts and design to sweets, homemade candles, and secret Christmas gifts. The market stalls are filled with delicacies for the Christmas table, marzipan, Christmas bread, locally produced crafts, and more. There are also plenty of wonderful taste experiences such as waffles, mulled wine, and roasted almonds.
Stortorget Christmas Market
Stortorgets Julmarknad is a traditional Christmas market in Stockholm's Old Town, featuring over 40 stalls offering everything from Christmas sweets to handmade decorations.
Christmas Market in Kungsträdgården
The Christmas market in Kungsträdgården offers unique gifts created by students from Stockholm's schools. You can find handmade crafts, home decor, art, design, technology, fashion, accessories, jewelry, food, and drinks.
The Farmer’s Market
Bondens egen marknad is a place where you can buy locally produced goods directly from the producers. Here you will find vegetables, jams, pickles, fish, oil, meat, and honey, all of the highest quality.
Sigtuna Christmas Market
The Sigtuna Christmas Market is a traditional Christmas market held four Sundays before Christmas in Sigtuna town. The market offers a variety of activities including a marketplace, food market, Christmas music, and Lucia processions. You can find traditional Christmas gifts and handmade crafts, as well as enjoy local specialties like mulled wine and gingerbread.
Christmas in Stenladan
The Christmas market in Stenladan, Steninge Castle Village in Märsta, offers a wide range of Christmas decorations, wreaths, and handmade crafts. Exhibitors are present for several weekends in December.
Taxinge Castle Christmas Market
Taxinge Castle offers Sweden's largest Christmas market with over 100 of the country's best artisans. Visit the market to experience fantastic, handmade products and solve your holiday gift shopping in one day.
Beckman’s Christmas Market
Beckmans Christmas Market is a traditional event where you can find unique creations in design, fashion, and visual communication signed by students from Beckmans College of Design.
Steninge Slottsby Christmas Market
Steninge Slottsby offers a truly festive atmosphere with Christmas decorations, festive food, flowers, wreaths, and gifts. The granaries light up the path to the entrance, and inside, you are greeted by the warm and cozy Christmas atmosphere.
OEstermalm Holiday Shows and Entertainment
Lucia in Stockholm
The Lucia celebration in Storkyrkan is a unique tradition where Storkyrkans Kammarkör sings beloved songs under the glow of the candles. The Lucia procession makes its entrance, and the light illuminates the deepest darkness.
Martha High and The Soul Cookers
Martha High and The Soul Cookers present a Christmas show featuring jazz, soul, blues, and funk at jazz club Fasching. Known as The Goddess of Soul, Martha High has been on stage with James Brown for over thirty years and now organizes a Christmas show with the top band The Soul Cookers. They will perform classic Christmas songs like Jingle bell rock and The Christmas Song, as well as new tracks.
OEstermalm Other Holiday Activities
Stockholm Santa Run
Stockholm Santa Run is a charity run where participants dress up as Santa and run or walk a 3-6 km route through Stockholm's city center. The event aims to raise funds for charity.