Tempe Marketplace Holiday Lights
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: 2000 E Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, Arizona
When: typically late Nov – early Jan (check before visiting)
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
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Tempe Marketplace decks out its open-air district with lights, decorations and scheduled artificial snowfall. Free to wander while shopping or dining.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Tempe is around 5:22 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:49 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 35°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 10 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 48 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Fantasy of Lights Street Parade and Tree Lighting
- World of Illumination Rockin' Christmas & Enchanted Safari
- ZooLights at the Phoenix Zoo
- Las Noches de las Luminarias
- Merry Main Street
- Christmas at the Princess
- Grayhawk AZ Christmas
- Scottsdazzle Holiday Extravaganza
Make a night of it. This is stop 3 on our 3-stop Tempe lights loop — about 2.7 miles and 19 minutes of driving in total.