Circle of Lights
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana
When: November 28, 2025 - January 12, 2026
Hours: Lights on from 6 PM; lighting ceremony November 28 at 7 PM
Cost: free
Soldiers and Sailors Monument tree of lightslighting ceremony the day after ThanksgivingTV broadcast on WTHR Channel 13attraction
Indianapolis's longest-running holiday tradition wraps the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Monument Circle in strands of lights, presented by IBEW 481. The lighting ceremony draws crowds downtown the day after Thanksgiving and the display stays lit into January.