Christmas lights in Plantation, Florida

We track 3 displays in Plantation. 2 of them are free to visit.

When to go

Displays here switch on around sunset. In Plantation that means about 5:29 PM in early December and 5:32 PM by mid-month — the earliest sunsets of the year fall right in the middle of lights season. It is properly dark by about 5:57 PM, which is when the displays look their best. December nights in Plantation typically drop to around 60°F.

Date	Sunset	Fully dark
Dec 1	5:29 PM	5:54 PM
Dec 15	5:32 PM	5:57 PM
Dec 25	5:36 PM	6:02 PM

The Plantation lights loop — 3 stops

We ordered every display in Plantation into the shortest sensible driving loop: roughly 7.7 miles and 30 minutes of driving, before you count time spent parked and looking. Start wherever is closest to you and follow it round.

Christmas Castle at Plantation City Hall — 400 NW 73rd Ave
McGonigles-Collins Family Display — 6221 Banyan Ter
Christmas Lights in the Acres — 11700 NW 28th Ct

Driving estimate assumes a 25 mph average on residential streets plus four minutes stopped per display. Straight-line distances with a road-network allowance — treat it as a planning figure, not a satnav route.

Practicalities

Residential displays have no facilities of their own — no parking, no toilets, nowhere to warm up — so it is worth knowing what is around. Within about three miles of the Plantation cluster, OpenStreetMap maps 0 public car parks and 6 public toilets. There is no shortage of cafés and takeaways for a hot drink on the way round.