Falmouth Christmas lights switch-on is a magical evening.

The evening starts when schoolchildren representing the town's primary schools, gather on Events Square with decorations and colourful withy lanterns. They are joined by a community choir and band and of course Santa before processing through the town towards The Moor.

Once on The Moor, each school sings a Christmas carol on the state-of-the-art-stage before the big switch-on. The evening is organised by the Falmouth Town Team as always and compered by Pirate FM.

The Falmouth Christmas lights are switched on each year by a nominated community champion. This is a person or group who after a public vote, gets to switch on the lights for that year.

Falmouth Christmas Lights switch-on timings:

17:00pm – children and singing groups start to gather on Events Square
17:40pm – the parade leaves Events Square and heads through town towards The Moor
18:15pm – school groups each sing a Christmas song or carol
19:00pm – the big Christmas lights switch-on by Falmouth's voted for community champion for the year

Coming from the Roseland to join the celebrations? The St Mawes Ferry will be running additional sailings

Departing Falmouth- 17:15, 18:15 and 20:15

Departing St Mawes 17:45, 18:45