The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, Rockefeller Plaza, Midtown, Manhattan Community Board 5, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10111, United StatesTishman Speyer
ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins66% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 66%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 58 daysEstimated from the pattern, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: the tree is "lit in a public ceremony on the last Wednesday of November or first Wednesday of December and following Thanksgiving"; Thanksgiving 2026 falls on 26 November (macysinc.com[2]), so the ceremony should be Wednesday 2 December. No official 2026 date has been announced.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is lit in a televised ceremony on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving, expected on 2 December 2026, opening the holiday season in Midtown.
