Lights in the Heights
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Woodland Heights neighborhood, Houston, Texas
When: December 13, 2025
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
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An annual one-night community celebration in Woodland Heights where residents decorate their homes and the neighborhood fills with festive cheer and light displays.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Houston is around 5:24 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:50 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 46°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 12 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 14 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Briargrove
- Christmas Village at Bayou Bend
- Deck the Hall
- Prestonwood Forest
- River Oaks Christmas Lights
- Shepherd Park
- Uptown Holiday Lights (Post Oak Boulevard)
- Woodland Heights / The Heights
Make a night of it. This is stop 7 on our 15-stop Houston lights loop — about 29.6 miles and 131 minutes of driving in total.