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Holiday Lights in the Gardens 2026

Name: Holiday Lights in the Gardens
Start: 2026-11-27T17:30:00
End: 2027-01-02
Location: Florida Botanical Gardens

When: Nov 27 – Jan 2, 2026 · 5:30pm
Where: Florida Botanical Gardens
Cost: $
Time needed: Evening
Crowds: high
Verdict: The best value holiday light walk in Tampa Bay, by a distance.

Nightly, November 27, 2026 through January 2, 2027, 5:30pm to 9:30pm. Free with a suggested $10 donation for ages 13 and up; under 12 free.

Over a million lights across 26 garden rooms on a 100-acre site — and the only cost is a ten-dollar donation you choose to make.

The Florida Botanical Gardens light more than a million bulbs across twenty-six distinct garden rooms with laser projections, open nightly for five weeks, on a suggested donation rather than a ticket.

Why it’s worth going

The scale is genuinely large for a free event, and the garden-room layout means the walk keeps changing character.

Confirm availability and booking terms with the ticket provider before paying.

Where it is

Florida Botanical Gardens

Largo, FL

→ Get directions Official site ↗flbgfoundation.org

Who should skip it

You want timed entry — this is walk-up, and the last two weeks of December get busy.

The move

Arrive right at 5:30 for the blue hour; the lights read best against a sky that has not gone fully black yet.

Official site — confirm dates and tickets before you travel

Going? Send it to whoever you’d go with — they’ll get the dates, the hours and where to park.

Verified 2026-09-10 against the organiser’s own listing. Verification source. More in Florida Events.