Bristol Light Festival returns to the city centre

Bristol Light Festival is set to return to Central Bristol from Thursday 18 February to Saturday 27 February 2027, bringing the light art event back to the city during the final weekend of February half-term.

The confirmed venue is Central Bristol. The source listing does not yet state daily opening times, ticket or booking details, or a specific street address, so visitors should treat the published dates as the key planning information for now.

February half-term dates put the festival in family calendars

The 2027 Bristol Light Festival dates place the event across ten days in the city centre, with the final weekend again coinciding with February half-term. That timing gives families, residents and visitors a clear window to plan an evening or city-centre trip around the festival.

The Visit Bristol event listing confirms the return of the festival but does not yet give a programme of installations, artists or individual locations. For now, the useful detail is the run of dates and the Central Bristol setting.

Central Bristol remains the confirmed setting

The festival is listed for Central Bristol, keeping it within the city-centre area rather than a single named venue. No venue address is included in the source material.

That means visitors should wait for further published details before making firm plans around a specific entrance point, route, transport stop or accessibility arrangement. The current listing confirms the event and date range, but not the street-level layout.

What is known before fuller details are released

The source-backed information is deliberately limited at this stage. Bristol Light Festival is confirmed as a festival in Central Bristol, running from Thursday 18 February until Saturday 27 February 2027.

Opening times, price information, booking requirements, organiser details, accessibility notes, food or stall information and transport guidance are not included in the source text provided. Those details should not be assumed until they are published by the event listing or organisers.

Planning details to check before attending

Anyone planning to attend should check the official event listing closer to the date for daily timings, any booking or entry requirements, installation locations and practical access information.

The confirmed planning facts are the event name, the Central Bristol location and the 18 to 27 February 2027 date window.

Source: Visit Bristol Events