Halloween in London
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Halloween in London 2025: How to Celebrate

Forget tricks – treat yourself this Halloween with our pick of the best events and spooky things to do in London
Rosie Hewitson
Contributors: Rhian Daly & Alex Sims
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The solstice is fast approaching, your ‘transitional’ jackets are getting plenty of use, and sacking off all your social plans to spend the weekend making a big roast and watching Scandi noirs under a heated blanked suddenly seems very tempting.

Autumn is well and truly here, and pretty soon Halloween will b creep up on you. Give it a couple of full moons, and London will transform, werewolf-like, into a colourful, chaotic wonderland of eerie characters and costumes, plump pumpkins and events so good you’d die to attend them.

But it’s never too early to begin planning your frightening fits, organising your witchy gatherings and deciding how you’ll spend the spookiest night of the year. We’ll be refreshing this guide over the next few months as more Halloween 2025 London events are announced. 

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When is Halloween in London 2025?

Halloween in the UK this year is on Friday, October 31 2025. There’ll be plenty of celebrations throughout the week running up to the big, scary day itself, and plenty of stuff happening over the ‘Halloweekend’, from spooky nightlife and scary movie screenings to pumpkin picking and family-friendly frights.

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