Strasbourg’s Christmas market opens on Friday 27 November at 14:00 and closes for good on 24 December. In between, its eight markets open every day from 11:00 to 21:00, Saturdays and Sundays included, according to the city’s official Christmas site. Christmas Eve is the last day. The stalls close at 18:00, and the city is plain about what follows: no stalls will be open on 25 December or through New Year’s Day. Twenty-eight days, all of them in Advent. The oldest of the eight, the Christkindelsmärik on Place Broglie, dates its origins to 1570. For a place to stay, MICHELIN’s 2026 list has one Key hotel in the city, and for dinner there are six One-Star restaurants.
Place Broglie, the Cathedral and Place Kléber: the eight markets
| Market | Where | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Christkindelsmärik | Place Broglie | The historic market, dating to 1570 |
| Autour de la Cathédrale | From Place de la Cathédrale to Place du Château | The traditional market around the cathedral |
| Au pied du Grand Sapin | Place Kléber | The Great Tree, with the Village du Partage and its 110 associations |
| Le marché du Carré d’Or | Place du Temple Neuf | A few steps from the cathedral |
| La Petite France | Place Benjamin Zix and Place Saint-Thomas | Billed by the city as the authentic Christmas market |
| Le quai des saveurs et des savoir-faire | Terrace of the Palais Rohan and Place du Marché-aux-Poissons | Food and crafts by the river |
| Les Irréductibles Petits Producteurs d’Alsace | Square Louise Weiss | Small Alsatian producers |
| Le marché OFF | Place Grimmeissen | The solidarity and inclusive market |
All eight share the same dates and the same hours. On the opening day, Friday 27 November, they run from 14:00 to 21:00. From then on it is 11:00 to 21:00 daily, and the city’s FAQ adds that the chalets keep the same hours at the weekend, closing every evening at 21:00. On Thursday 24 December they open from 11:00 to 18:00, and then they are taken down. The city’s directory of chalets lists about 300 exhibitors across the eight sites. Each market has its own page on the city’s list of markets.
The Great Tree on Place Kléber, lit into January
The tree is 30 metres tall. The city says it is lit every day from 27 November to 5 January, with a light and music show every hour from 16:00 to 21:00 and a light show on its own from 22:00 to midnight, on its page for the season’s lights. That makes the Great Tree the one part of the season that outlasts the stalls. After 24 December the chalets are gone. By the city’s dates, the tree on Place Kléber is still lit until 5 January.
Bridges, bags and a ten-minute walk from the station
The city publishes its rules on the same FAQ page. To keep pedestrians safe, access controls are in place at the bridge entrances to the Grande Île, the island of the old town, and motor traffic is prohibited there during market hours. There is no luggage storage within the market grounds, for security reasons. Leave bags at the hotel. From the central station, the historic centre and its first chalets are a ten-minute walk, and tram lines A, C, D and F stop near the market sites. Drivers are sent to the park-and-ride sites on the outskirts, where parking costs 4.20 euros a day, with a return tram ticket for every passenger included.
The TGV makes Strasbourg an easy city to reach by train. Paris to Strasbourg takes 1 hour 46 minutes, according to the city’s tourism office, Karlsruhe 45 minutes and Munich about 4 hours. For a night in Paris on the way, our guide to the 41 Key hotels in Paris has the full list.
Les Haras, the one Key hotel in Strasbourg
MICHELIN’s 2026 list for France has a single Key hotel in the city. Les Haras holds One Key, with 115 rooms at 23 rue des Glacières, in an 18th-century building with a spa and a 17-metre pool, as set out in our guide to the Key hotels of Alsace. MICHELIN’s page describes its mood as contemporary, classic and quiet. The same page lists Umami, a One-Star restaurant in La Petite France, among the tables near the hotel. The other six Key hotels in Alsace are outside the city, from Colmar to the Vosges.
Six One-Star tables, and none listed open on a Sunday
The 2026 MICHELIN Guide France gives the city six restaurants with One Star and none with Two or Three. They are Umami, Au Crocodile, 1741, Les Plaisirs Gourmands, Les Funambules and de:ja. The nearest Two-Star table, La Fourchette des Ducs, is in Obernai, outside the city.
Several of the six serve one meal a day, as MICHELIN lists them, so the day of the week decides the table. Au Crocodile, on rue de l’Outre, opens for dinner on Tuesday and Wednesday and for lunch from Thursday to Saturday. 1741, on the quai des Bateliers, serves lunch from Wednesday to Saturday. Les Plaisirs Gourmands, on quai Mullenheim, has lunch and dinner from Wednesday to Saturday. Les Funambules, on rue Geiler, is a weekday lunch, Monday to Friday. The restaurant called de:ja, on rue Schimper, serves dinner from Tuesday to Friday and both services on Saturday. Umami, on rue des Dentelles, shows no hours on its MICHELIN page. None of the six is listed as open on a Sunday. On Monday, only Les Funambules. MICHELIN gives no holiday hours, so ask each restaurant directly about 24 December.
The Luxury.it perspective
Strasbourg is an Advent city. Every market closes on the evening of 24 December, so the trip belongs to the four weeks before, and the evenings belong to Place Kléber, where the Great Tree’s show starts every hour from 16:00. Les Haras is the Key hotel, and Umami is close to it. Plan dinners around the restaurants’ days: Les Funambules for a Monday lunch, Les Plaisirs Gourmands or de:ja for an evening from Wednesday to Saturday. For the opposite calendar, Salzburg keeps its markets open on Christmas Day and into January, as in our Salzburg guide.
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