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Writing about Christmas markets? We can help with dates, prices, crowds, which markets to pick, and data from the ChristmasWanders Index.

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What it isAn independent guide to Europe's Christmas markets, with a scored Index
How scores workFive weighted measures, published method
Paid placementsNone. Nobody pays to be on the Index or to move up it
DatesChecked against the organisers every season
GuidesEvery guide is written after a visit
Launched2026
How we can help

What you can ask us for

01Comment for your story

Christmas market trips, when to go, what things cost, how busy it gets, which market suits which kind of traveller, and what's changed this season. Comment comes from Vuk Ilic, founder of ChristmasWanders.

02Data from the Index

Scores and sub-scores for every market, opening and closing dates, and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day hours. Happy to cut it by country, region or city.

03Fact-checks

Opening dates and hours, checked against the organisers before you publish.

04Something specific

Working on a story and need a number we don't publish yet? Ask. If we can get it right in time, we'll get it for you.

Press kit

About ChristmasWanders

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Spokesperson

Vuk Ilic is the founder of ChristmasWanders. He leads the site's research, including the ChristmasWanders Index and the Christmas market snow odds, and can comment on Christmas market travel, dates, prices, crowds and weather.

Boilerplate, free to use

ChristmasWanders is an independent guide to Europe's Christmas markets. It scores every market on atmosphere, stalls, food and drink, value and how easy it is to get to, checks opening dates against the organisers each season and publishes the method behind every score. Nobody pays to be included or to move up the rankings.

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ChristmasWanders, the independent guide that scores Europe's Christmas markets.

Using our work

Data and images

Scores, rankings and data

You're welcome to use our scores, rankings and data in your coverage. Please credit ChristmasWanders and link to christmaswanders.com, or to the page the data came from.

Snow odds for all 208 towns are a free download: snow odds 2026 (CSV). If you need the full dataset for a country or a region, email us and we'll send it over.

Photos

Photos of Wrocław's Christmas market in the snow are free to use with the credit “ChristmasWanders”: tree, landscape, tree, portrait and windmill stall. Other photos on the site come from a mix of sources, so please ask before using them and we'll send the right credit line.

The ChristmasWanders logo is fine to use when you mention the site.