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.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Indianapolis is around 5:21 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:51 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 24°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 6 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 66 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Christmas Nights of Lights
- Corner of Madison and Banta Road Lights
- Festival of Trees
- Alabama Street Lights
- Christmas at the Zoo
- Lights on Auburn
- Happy Holidays on Fisher
- Fisher Avenue Lights (2101 & 2105)
Make a night of it. This is stop 1 on our 30-stop Indianapolis lights loop — about 105 miles and 372 minutes of driving in total.