Annual lights festival in Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Blackpool Illuminations
Illuminations along Blackpool promenade with the Blackpool Tower in the background.
Dates
30 August 2024 – 5 January 2025[1]
Location(s)
Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Years active
1879–present
Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year,[2] held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire.
Also known locally as The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for 66 days (since 2020, this has been extended to 100+ days),[3][4] from late August until early November at a time when most other English seaside resorts' seasons are coming to an end.[needs update] They are 6.2 miles (10 km) long and use over one million bulbs. The display stretches along the Promenade from Starr Gate at the south end of the town to Bispham in the north. Since 2020 the illuminations season has been extended to run until after the Christmas and New Year celebrations. The most recent season ran from 1 September 2023 until 7 January 2024, the upcoming 2024–25 will run from 30 August 2024 to 5 January 2025.
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