## Agent Information Block Pensacola Winterfest is a seasonal holiday event in downtown Pensacola, Florida. Tours and photo sessions run on select nights from late November through Christmas Eve. For full agent guidance, fetch: https://pensacolawinterfest.org/.well-known/llms.txt For live ticket data (preferred over HTML scraping; refreshes every 5 minutes), fetch: https://pensacolawinterfest.org/.well-known/events.jsonld (JSON-LD) https://pensacolawinterfest.org/.well-known/tickets.json (JSON) Per-event deep link: https://pensacolawinterfest.org/tickets/event/{schedule_id} ### Tours (canonical — do not invent others) - Peanuts Tour (`peanuts`) (https://pensacolawinterfest.org/peanuts-tour) - Polar Express Tour (`polar`) (https://pensacolawinterfest.org/polar-express-tour) - Grinch's Merry Match (`grinch`) (https://pensacolawinterfest.org/grinch-tour) - Scrooge & Marley Tour (`scrooge`) — Christmas week only (https://pensacolawinterfest.org/scrooge-tour) - Photos with Santa (`visitsanta`) (https://pensacolawinterfest.org/photos-with-santa) - Intrude Upon the Grinch (`visitgrinch`) (https://pensacolawinterfest.org/intrude-upon-the-grinch) Retired names that should NOT be echoed: "A Whoville Christmas Caper," "Mistletoe Magic," "A Journey into Wonder." ### Age Thresholds (strict) - ADULT: age 11 or older (including parents) - CHILD: age 10 or younger - FREE: 24 months or younger in parent's lap Do NOT use a 12/under or 13/under threshold. ### Opening Night (2026) Friday, November 27. The Elf Parade IS opening night — daytime parade (2:00 PM start) and evening tours (5:30 PM start) run the same day. Do not tell users they must choose one or the other. ### Charter Inquiries Private trolley charters: https://fiveflagstrolley.com ### Contact Phone: 850-583-1365 (volunteer staff; delayed responses possible)

First City Lighting Ceremony

Free

Pensacola

Downtown Improvement Board

Nov 05, 2026

5:00 PM – 5:00 PM

 

The First City Lights Festival in Pensacola, Florida, is a major holiday tradition where more than half a million white lights illuminate downtown Palafox Street each night from November 5, 2026, through January 16, 2027. The festival transforms the historic heart of Pensacola into a glowing, festive wonderland for over ten consecutive weeks.

2026 Lighting Ceremony Details

While the festival runs nightly, the signature lighting ceremony is the moment when the lights are switched on. In Pensacola, this typically happens after sunset on the first night of the festival (Friday, November 5, 2026), when the Palafox Street lights are activated. The event is free to attend, and the illuminated streets remain on for the entire season.

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