Best places to see Christmas lights in Melbourne

Mill Park
21 Meldrum Avenue

At this festive home display you will find a huge interactive display with snowmen, reindeers, gingerbread. There's plenty of spots for a photo opp, plus if you're lucky, you'll get to meet Santa and he might even have some presents! Meldrum Avenue Christmas Lights.  

Coburg
5 Molesworth Street

Closer to the city, another spectacular awaits. As you turn the corner into Molesworth Street, you'll be greeted by thousands of twinkly lights completely decked out over a triple-storey house. Accompanied by large inflatables, music and moving features, you can also make a donation to the Royal Children’s Hospital. Molesworth Street Christmas Lights.

Greenvale
27 Glencairn Drive

Often referred to as the ‘Myer Windows Of The North’, these owners go all out, year after year, to decorate the entire front of their house with lights and decorations, including spectacular hand-crafted scenes in their front windows. Heaps to gaze at and great fun for all ages. Sometimes Mr Whippy even shows up. Glencairn Drive Christmas Lights.

Wantirna
9 Warwick Close

Tucked away out of sight in a court in Wantirna, sits a neat display that’ll be sure to impress. A garden of dangling fairy lights surrounds a neon passageway where you’ll be greeted with various characters and inflatables singing along to Christmas tunes. Warwick Close Christmas Lights.

Montmorency

150 Reichelt Avenue

The first things you’ll be greeted with at this radiating display in Montmorency are three massive LED Christmas trees, including one on top of the garage. It doesn’t end there, there are Christmas lights spilling out of the roof, down the walls and into the garden. There’s also a train and Ferris wheel (oh, and around 50,000 LEDs). A carnival of colour hidden away in the north-west. Reichelt Avenue Christmas Lights.

Mount Dandenong
7 Ornata Road

This has got to be Mount Dandenong's best-kept Christmas secret. Come visit Benhaylem Hollow, a magical Christmas light display tucked away in the middle of the forest. All light displays are located in the front garden and roof and can be viewed from the road spanning the length of the house. Ornata Road Christmas Lights.

Sunshine

12 Cooper St 
Out west the Walsh family has been lighting up Sunshine for more than 20 years. In 2021 punters can enjoy approximately 45,000 lights plus a nativity scene, inflatables (weather permitting), a walk-in display, a village window display and music.

Altona Meadows

Knightsbridge Avenue

This Christmas wonderland features festive music, interactive, mobile displays, a nativity Scene, lasers and projections, plenty of twinkling lights, plus much more. Knightsbridge Avenue Christmas Lights.

Wyndham Vale

Aloma Avenue

Thomas the Tank Engine isn't usually a Christmas character, but at this home he's still a big part of the festivities. He's there in life-size form, along with decorations galore. This home has interactive displays, bubbles and snow machines, projections and lots of lights. You can even snap a photo while sitting in Santa's sleigh and visit a Lego winter village. Aloma Avenue Christmas Lights.

Sandringham

63 Range Road 

This is a Christmas lights display with a difference, as this home features a display of all pink lights in support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Over the past three years, the community has raised nearly $50,000 for the cause through the annual festive show. The nightly display runs every night up until Christmas, with a magical snow machine, music, lights and much more. Grange Road Christmas Lights.

Cranbourne North
9 Middlesex Court

Have you ever heard the old saying, “the best are out of sight”? Well until we discovered this picturesque Christmas light display in Cranbourne North, neither had we. You’ll need to take some left and right turns, but when you end up at the end of Middlesex Court, you’ll surely be delighted at the sight of thousands of sparkling lights. A display all ages will appreciate and the owners are even handing out lollies for the kids. Middlesex Court Christmas Lights.

Special thanks to the team at Melbourne Christmas Lights Map for helping us put together this suburban list. If you're keen to make a night of exploring Christmas light displays, be sure to check out the map and light search on their website.