Santee Gingerbread House
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season

Where: 9435 Saint Andrews Dr, Santee, California
When: Nov 27 - Jan 1
Hours: Dusk-10 pm
Cost: free
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A home transformed into a giant gingerbread house with well over 12,000 LED lights and a sleigh set up for photos.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Santee is around 4:43 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:11 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 40 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Pebble Beach Drive Music Display
- Shanes Way Tree of Light
- Starlight Circle (Sunburst Santee)
- Tuxedo Road Winter Wonderland
- Lake Arrowhead Drive Display
- De Camp Drive Musical Tree
- Nightmare Before Christmas House
- Tinsel Town
Make a night of it. This is stop 2 on our 4-stop Santee lights loop — about 3.1 miles and 23 minutes of driving in total.