APS Electric Light Parade
✓ Last confirmed for the 2024 season
Where: Central Avenue route, Uptown Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona
When: Dec 6
Hours: 7pm
Cost: free
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The APS Electric Light Parade rolls illuminated floats along Central Avenue through Uptown Phoenix, drawing huge curbside crowds. It's one of the city's longest-standing free holiday traditions.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Phoenix is around 5:22 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:49 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 41°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 7 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 60 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Christmas Eve Luminarias in Moon Valley
- Christmas on the Farm at DH Farms
- Cruise ZooLights
- Jingle at JW Desert Ridge
- Moon Valley Decorated Homes
- North Phoenix Lights
- 21st Street and Osborn Display
- Calle Tuberia Display
Make a night of it. This is stop 32 on our 40-stop Phoenix lights loop — about 81 miles and 354 minutes of driving in total.