A free Town Hall Christmas Fayre on 3 December joins the Makers Market on 12 December and two Foodie Fridays. Stockport Market's Victorian Christmas is undated.

Stockport’s Christmas markets are spread across Market Place, the Market Hall and Merseyway rather than concentrated into one big festive village, and only part of the 2026 calendar exists so far. Here is what is actually booked and what is not.

Updated 12 October: Stockport Events has listed a free Christmas Fayre at the Town Hall on Thursday 3 December, with stalls and a Santa’s grotto. The Makers Market has no January date (we had said 9 January). The Victorian Christmas market and Merseyway still have no 2026 dates.

Confirmed for Christmas 2026

Stockport festive markets and fairs with confirmed 2026 dates
MarketDateTimeCost
Foodie FridayFri 27 Nov6pm to 9pmFree
Christmas Fayre, Stockport Town HallThu 3 Dec12pm to 6pmFree entry
Stockport Makers MarketSat 12 Dec10am to 4pmFree
Foodie FridayFri 18 Dec6pm to 9pmFree

The Foodie Fridays and the Makers Market are on Market Place, SK1 1EW.

The Town Hall Christmas Fayre is on Thursday 3 December, 12pm to 6pm, at Stockport Town Hall, Edward Street, SK1 3DQ, run by Stockport Events. Entry is free. The listing promises a “local marketplace” of gifts, crafts, decorations and festive treats, festive food and drink, live music, a silent disco, a Santa’s grotto (“small fee applies”) and a Christmas raffle for Wellspring Stockport (Stockport Events listing).

Foodie Friday is Stockport Market’s monthly street food night, on the last Friday of the month, with craft ales and live music alongside the traders. The December edition falls on the 18th rather than the 25th for obvious reasons, and the November one on the 27th. Entry is free. It is listed on the council’s events calendar by the organisers at skfoodiefriday.co.uk.

The Stockport Makers Market runs on the second Saturday of the month, so its Christmas edition is Saturday 12 December, with a November market on the 14th. There is no January market: the organisers’ Stockport venue page jumps from 12 December to 13 February 2027. The organisers describe it as the North West’s food, drink, art, design and vintage specialists who “source, grow, rear, bake, make, and create the products they sell”.

The Victorian Christmas market has no 2026 date

The market most people mean when they search for a Stockport Christmas market is the Victorian Christmas at Stockport Market, held on the first weekend of December in Market Place. It has not been dated for 2026.

The most recent listing anyone can open is the 2024 one, and it is a good guide to what the market is:

  • Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 December 2024, 9am to 4.30pm, free
  • Fairground rides
  • A free meet and greet with Santa, including a gift
  • Choir and band performances
  • A DJ set, and a 12-day Christmas loyalty voucher launch
  • Festive stock from the market’s regular traders

The listing for 2025 has been deleted from the council’s site rather than updated, which is what Stockport does with past events. One Stockport’s event series for the Victorian Christmas market still resolves to its December 2024 occurrence whatever date you request, so there is no 2025 or 2026 record there either.

Merseyway has announced nothing festive

Merseyway Shopping Centre ran Christmas Markets presented as a Santa’s Village in 2024, trading daily up to 24 December, alongside its Giving Tree appeal, which the centre says delivered £120,000 worth of gifts across Stockport and Greater Manchester.

Its events page currently lists one upcoming event, the Moon Festival on 12 and 13 September, and nothing for Christmas.

When the rest will be announced

Stockport publishes its festive programme late. The council’s round-up of what is on at Christmas in the town centre went out on 26 November 2024, and its Spectacular Sunday release, which opens the season, went out on 13 November 2025. Expect the Victorian market date, the Merseyway markets and the Santa sessions to land together in the first half of November.

Two checks confirm nothing is being held back quietly. Stockport Council’s events calendar for 1 November to 31 December 2026 contains the Plaza pantomime, Christmas concerts, Town Hall party nights, the two Foodie Fridays and, from October, the Town Hall Christmas Fayre, but no Victorian market and nothing from Merseyway (rechecked on 12 October). One Stockport carries 593 listings between 1 October 2026 and 10 January 2027, and the Makers Market is the only market in them.

We will update this page as the dates confirm. Before you travel in, check our Stockport parking page for the town centre car parks and the 2026 charges, and the roadworks and travel page for anything closed around Market Place.

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