Tallinn Christmas Market
Visitors gather at Raekoja plats to celebrate the official opening of the Tallinn Christmas Market. District elder Nikita Groznov delivers welcoming remarks before the festive lights are lit on the city's centerpiece Christmas tree. Guests can explore illuminated stalls offering local crafts, traditional holiday foods, and warm seasonal drinks.
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Plan Your Visit
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Tickets
The page gives no admission price. A €2 deposit applies to the reusable dishes and is fully refunded when the dish is returned to a collection point.
Ages
All ages
Neighborhood
Old Town
Food & Drink
The market serves traditional Christmas dishes such as sauerkraut, blood sausages and roasts, plus pastries and sweets; hot drinks include many kinds of alcoholic and non-alcoholic glögi and spiced wine made from a medieval recipe.
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Tips & Advice
- Return your reusable cup or dish to a collection point before you leave, because that's how you get your full deposit back.
- Help your kids learn a Christmas verse before visiting Santa's house, since children who can recite one get a sweet from Santa.
- Come on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday if you want the stage programme of music groups, folk dancers and artists.
- Warm drinks are still served after the market closes for the day, and even later on Fridays and Saturdays, so you can linger over glögi.
- Ask for non-alcoholic glögi if you're driving or buying for kids, because every glögi comes with or without alcohol.
Special Events & Promotions
- Opening night on 20 November: Kesklinna district elder Nikita Groznov gives the opening words, then the lights go on on the city's main Christmas tree.
- First Advent on 29 November: the Mayor of Tallinn and the cathedral provost proclaim Advent and light the Advent candle to Christmas songs. Santa's house opens the same day.
- Music groups, folk-dance troupes and artists perform on the stage on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, hosted by Santas Äffy and Arlet.
- Ring in the New Year at the market on 31 December.
- New this year: a special focus on work by local artists and craftspeople.
Links & Contact
Run by Tallinna Jõuluturg
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Frequently Asked Questions
What hot food is there?
Traditional Christmas dishes are cooked on the spot, including sauerkraut, sizzling blood sausages and Christmas roasts. For something fancier there are elk sausages, lamb cutlets, duck confit and slow-cooked pork belly. You can eat there or take it away.
What drinks are on offer?
Dozens of kinds of glögi, such as cranberry-cherry, Setomaa raspberry-blackcurrant and pumpkin. Every glögi comes with or without alcohol. There's also spiced wine made from a medieval recipe.
What is there for children?
From 29 November, Santa opens his little house and welcomes children every day. Kids who know a Christmas verse by heart get a sweet. Classic carousels are set up for the youngest.
What can I buy as gifts?
This year the focus is on local artists and craftspeople. Look for unusual candles, modern Christmas ornaments, dog- and alpaca-wool socks, sweaters, hats and Estonian design. The sweets house sells fresh cinnamon and cardamom buns and decorated gingerbread.
How do the reusable dishes work?
Food and drinks come in the market's reusable dishes, which carry a deposit. Hand a dish back at a collection point and you get the full deposit back.
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