Uptown Holiday Lights (Post Oak Boulevard)
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Post Oak Boulevard, south toward the Galleria, Houston, Texas
When: November - December 2025
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
300 lighted holiday trees1,000 twinkling starstwo-mile span16 million color combinations35-foot tree at Highland Villageneighborhood
Uptown's main thoroughfare is lined with roughly 300 illuminated holiday trees and 1,000 twinkling stars stretching about two miles along Post Oak Boulevard, with displays capable of 16 million color combinations. Nearby Highland Village on Westheimer adds a 35-foot Christmas tree.
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
- Lights in the Heights
- Prestonwood Forest
- River Oaks Christmas Lights
- Shepherd Park
- Woodland Heights / The Heights
Make a night of it. This is stop 11 on our 15-stop Houston lights loop — about 29.6 miles and 131 minutes of driving in total.