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Christmas in the City

There's a lot going on in the city centre at Christmas time. In addition to the Christmas market on Gustav Adolfs Torg and all the beautiful Christmas lights that brighten up life, the atmosphere is spread throughout the city. The shops are decorated, the smell of mulled wine and burnt almonds fills the streets and everywhere there is something to experience for both young and old. On this page we collect all the Christmas events in the city centre. Everything from activities and cosy occasions to socialise to opening hours and practical information. Keep your eyes open, the page is constantly updated with everything that happens during Christmas.

Christmas market Gustav Adolfs Torg

Welcome to this year's Christmas market on Gustav Adolf's Square, which is on site every Thursday to Sunday from 27 November to 21 December.

At the Christmas Market, you can shop for handmade Christmas gifts from a variety of local and regional exhibitors. The range of exhibitors may vary from weekend to weekend. Some will be there for the whole Christmas market and others may only be there for a weekend or two. This is so that we can offer a wide range of products and that there is something for all visitors!

The market is open 11-18 all four Advent holidays:

Thu 27/11 - Sun 30/11
Thurs 3/12 - Sun 7/12
Thurs 11/12 - Sun 14/12
Thu 18/12 - Sun 21/12

Christmas market programme

First weekend

27/11-30/11

29 November

Santa & Mrs Claus on site
Elsa, Anna & Olof from Frozen greet you at 13.00, 14.00 & 15.00

City of Malmö Christmas lights switch-on

14.30-16.00 Live music from Malmö Brassband and Released Gospel Choir
16.00 Chairman of the Technical Committee Andreas Schönström welcomes
16.30 Andreas Schönström will switch on this year's Christmas lights and crown Malmö Lucia 2025.
The opening ceremony ends at 17.00

30 November

Arnbergs performs 12.00-12.20
Club choir 13.00-13.30
Arnbergs performs 14.00-14.20
Arnbergs performs 15.30-15.50
Club choir 16.30-17.00
Fryshuset artists 17.15-17.45

Second weekend

4/12-7/12

4 December

The Christmas market's own playground will be in place

6 December

Santa & Mrs Claus on hand to greet all the good children

7 December

Santa & Mrs Claus on hand to greet all the good children
Karavan performs 14.30, 15.30 & 17.00

Third weekend

11/12-14/12

13 December

Lucia train passes through the Christmas Market at 17.30
Santa & Mrs Claus are there to greet all the good children

14 December

Santa & Mrs Claus on hand to greet all the good children

Fourth weekend

18/12-21/12

20 December

Santa & Mrs Claus are there to greet all the good children

21 December

Santa & Mrs Claus on hand to greet all the good children
Karavan performs 14.30, 15.30 & 17.00

Who exhibits at the Christmas Market?

At the Christmas Market you can find fantastic Christmas gifts from both local and regional artisans. Below you will find all the exhibitors who exhibit during the four weekends. The selection differs from week to week. Before each new market weekend, we present the exhibitors of the week on our instagram.

Arles Cheese Cake Bakery

Arles Ostkaka produces genuine Småland cheesecake according to an old recipe from 1873, made from natural ingredients without additives. The cheesecake is baked by hand in the bakery in Färlöv with milk from Kärrdala farm. The range includes award-winning cheesecake and jam with 90 per cent berries and freshly squeezed lemon.

Birdie Tam

Birdie Tam offers charming original designs with a mix of Eastern and Scandinavian expressions. You'll find clothes, stationery and handmade ceramics that make perfect personalised gifts. Come by and discover something really nice.

Brunnsparken Café

Here, guests are greeted by a warm Christmas feeling with the aroma of freshly baked waffles. Brunnsparken café offers waffles on a stick, Belgian waffles with Christmas topping and hot locally produced apple juice with cream and cinnamon. An easy way to add a little extra sparkle to December.

Flowers By Ou

At Flowers by Ou you'll find unique, handmade Christmas decorations: gnomes, snowmen, angels, Lucia figures and other small creations. Each product is handmade with attention to detail, perfect as a Christmas decoration or gift.

Hydrojar

HydroJar is a simple and climate-smart growing kit for growing herbs in water with added nutrients. The kit includes a bio-based plastic lid and basket, seeds, nutrients and growing briquettes, and all you need is a recycled glass jar. The packaging is compact and makes a perfect gift, even for friends who live far away.

Solemn Earth Life

From their workshop in Davidshall, they bring laser-cut steel Christmas treasures! Each ornament is a mathematically drawn tribute to Christmas tradition and Malmö's architecture, where geometric precision meets the sparkling magic of Christmas.

Kalynonka

Kalynonka is a Ukrainian Swedish company that wants to share traditional flavours from Ukraine. We offer a selection of Lovaré teas, coffee from Lviv and handmade pralines with nuts and dried fruits. The products are created with care and inspiration from both our home countries.

Purple Oak

Lilla Ek is a small-scale farm business in the Scanian countryside that creates edible products with a focus on quality, flavour and care. Raw materials are mainly sourced from their own garden and everything is made by hand, just like in the old days. The products spread calm, warmth and genuine flavours with clear origins.

Magpie Islet

Magpie Islet sells self-designed and hand-knitted woollen mittens and hats. The products are unique, warm and perfect as personalised Christmas gifts.

Marie's Bee Crafts

Marie's Bee Crafts will be there with seasonal honey from Malmö, award-winning mustard and other goodies. Products such as beeswax cloths, beeswax and the Big Book of Bees provide inspiration for Christmas presents. Boden's range also includes award-winning apple must from Österlen, where bees have pollinated the apple orchard.

Osterian

The Osterian is a family business with a long history, selling processed cheeses aged in their cheese cellar with a long history. An exclusive offer only for Christmas markets.

Skandiware

Here you will find wall calendars in over two hundred and forty motifs and Christmas cards with everything from dog breeds and wild animals to pets, motor cars, artists, puppies, rock stars and football teams. A wide range that makes it easy to find something for everyone.

Sigvard Månsgård

Sigvard Månsgård is a family-run farm in north-west Skåne that combines Swedish and Moroccan food culture. The farm offers artisan products from its own breeding, including lamb, beef, charcuterie, cakes and lambskin. The products are produced with care and respect for animals, raw materials and tradition.

Tessa & Mimmi Clogs

Tessa & Mimmi Clogs offers hand-painted clogs and mittens with Nordic soul, made in Sweden. The range includes colourful clogs and mittens in sheepskin, Shetland wool and Lovika, all carefully selected for warmth, quality and craftsmanship. The products are personalised, durable and perfect as memorable Christmas gifts.

Hot stuff

Warmstuff offers beautiful and warm products made from pure natural materials. The range includes mittens, wrist warmers, ragg socks, hats, headbands, scarves and more. The products combine beauty, function and a warm feeling.

Belos Swedish Hot Dog

Belo's Swedish Hotdog will be offering grilled hot dogs with mustard, mix tubes and several toppings at the Christmas Market at Gustav Adolfs torg 2025. The sausages can also be bought in vacuum packaging together with accessories for those who want to grill at home. Visitors will get a warm and flavourful experience beyond the ordinary.

Björkalle'n

Björkalle'n offers soft and warming wool products from its own sheep farm. The products are suitable as cosy Christmas gifts and create warmth for both body and soul.

The HG brothers

HG Brothers have been making handmade chocolates since 2019, focusing on real flavours and small moments of joy in everyday life. All chocolates are gluten-free, nut-free and egg-free, and the range includes vegan options with several new flavours. The product spreads joy and pleasure for everyone.

Grevstads Lilla Betongfabrik

Grevstads Lilla Betongfabrik casts and paints handmade items and creates jewellery and earrings in clay. The products are unique and creative, perfect as personalised gifts.

In the Law of Good Apples

I Goda Äpplens Lag offers its hot apple mulled wine, co-created with the people of Skåne at its muster in Malmö. The musterie runs a social initiative that wants to get more people involved in taking care of their fruit, as well as appreciating what can be created from locally grown fruit.

Costume jewellery

KLssmycken creates unique jewellery and accessories from used silver and nickel silver cutlery. Each piece is handmade and given new life as personal and creative jewellery.

Limhamn East

Limhamns Ost is a small cheese shop in the heart of Limhamn that offers cheese and accessories. A selection of Christmas-inspired cheeses is brought to the Christmas market. The range spreads flavour and joy for cheese lovers.

Lova Lovegoods

Lova Lovegoods creates ceramics that bring imagination and playfulness into everyday life. Her colourful shapes combine function and creativity in a way that brings smiles. Each object is made to spread magic in the small.

m.a.m.i estudio

m.a.m.i estudio is a Malmö-based ceramicist who creates joyful utility objects, inspired by the play of colours in the sky and the changeability of nature.

Mr Mats Milhamre

Mats Milhamre, Lund artist and illustrator who paints Malmö and other places in his own style, often naively and colourfully with humorous elements. At the Christmas market, Mats sells his joyful motifs as paintings, trays, puzzles, coasters, posters and postcards.

The puzzle figure

Pusselstallet offers Sweden's largest range of puzzles and accessories in many motifs, shapes and colours for both young and old. The range also includes Diamond Painting with accessories. There is something for all puzzle and craft lovers.

Shadow work

Behind hžn keramik and Skuggverk is Sofie Halužan with small-scale ceramics in stoneware. Each piece is unique and the techniques vary, which gives her the opportunity to explore both the structure of the clay and its softness. Artistic inspiration is drawn from nature, mysticism and the occult, and the design is warm, raw and organic.

Tino Ceramica

Tino Ceramica creates functional ceramic products that bring warmth and beauty to everyday life. The products are made in stoneware with a focus on the texture and colour of the clay, giving each object a unique character. Everything is made by hand in small series.

Åhus Jam & Berries

Åhus Sylt och Bär offers artisan jam and raw juice with extra berries. Everything is made in Åhus since 1985. Here you will find classics such as cloudberry jam, sea buckthorn and blueberry juice, along with forest honey, Christmas products from Sövde Musteri and Olof Viktor's well-known Christmas mustard.

BiD Möllevången

Discover Möllevängen's creativity in the city centre! In BID Möllevängen's stall you will meet local companies and creators who offer unique products, sustainable crafts and creative joy.

Brattse Design

Welcome to the world of BRATTSE design! Johanna creates washable crochet art for you made of cotton and love ~ clothes, accessories and home decor

You Beautiful

Du Sköna is a Malmö-based design brand originating in Värmland. Anna makes earrings with hand-painted birds, colourful recycled jewellery and accessories, as well as postcards, Christmas cards and fridge magnets with animal and plant motifs.

Hallberg beeswax

Hallbergs Bivax turns beeswax into handmade candles and beeswax cloths on a small scale in Skåne. Each product is carefully made with carefully selected materials and has a long shelf life. Here, craftsmanship, care for the environment and a warm feeling of everyday usefulness meet.

Imse Dumse

Here you will find the children's books about Imse Dumse the spider, a warm and humorous character who encounters everyday adventures in the insect kingdom. The books are suitable both for reading aloud and for children who want to discover pictures and text themselves.

Fucking Mög

Furnishings, clothes and gadgets - in Scanian! They work to preserve the Scanian cultural heritage with both unique Scanian words and expressions. Appreciated gifts that spread joy while being useful and in sustainable quality.

Cocos in Suede

Les Cocos en Suede is a small French-Swedish company, offering handmade items, all entirely made in Malmö. They create objects for everyday life with a focus on quality and sustainability. The fabrics are carefully selected. They work mainly with natural fabrics; cotton, linen and wool, EcoTex or even organic.

LUALUC

LUALUC creates handmade jewellery in silver, brass and copper with carefully selected gemstones. The jewellery combines design, craftsmanship and lapidary work to create unique stones. Each piece of jewellery is handmade in high-quality silver and may vary slightly depending on the natural character of the material.

Maria Arelund Design

Marie Arelund Design creates knitted mittens, hats and waistcoats and sews garments in 70s fabrics. The products combine craftsmanship and retro inspiration to create unique and personalised garments.

MFF Shop

In their shop at the Christmas market, MFF has a great range of official Malmö FF products: match shirts, souvenirs and accessories for both adults and children. They also offer exclusive collections and special products for real MFF fans.

Sabina Morin Studio

Sabina Morin works with clay and art, where sculpting and turning are central elements. Her works alternate between sculptures and utility materials, always shaped with feeling and heart. Colours and forms are often taken from the natural landscape and combined with different materials.

Seamstress/grandmother

Symormor/Farmor creates colourful toys, balls, cuddly toys, small bags and other hand-sewn products. In the run-up to Christmas, they make Santas, Advent candlesticks and Christmas-inspired decorations such as jelly beans and gingerbread. The products are playful and spread warmth and joy.

Game food

Viltmat is a family business that offers game products adapted to nature and the seasons. The range includes delicacies such as Viltpåsen, game salamis and dried reindeer meat. The products bring the flavour and enjoyment of nature directly to the table.

The Österlen Ball

Österlenbollen offers unique and tasty chocolate balls as well as Christmas ashes and Santa's favourites full of Christmas flavours. The range also includes candy canes, fudge and caramel in different flavours such as saffron, mulled wine and gingerbread. The products spread Christmas cheer and enjoyment for everyone.

What can you eat at the Christmas Market?

For those who are a little more hungry

Guacho Pampa – Gaucho Pampa serves authentic Argentinian barbecue over an open fire. The Christmas market offers Sandwich Toro and deep-fried empanadas. The products provide a warm and flavoursome experience in the winter cold.

ZAP – ZAP offers Christmas food with a modern twist. You'll find traditional ingredients with brand new flavours.

For those who are craving something sweet or warming

Jafaaris Donuts & Churros - Jafari's Donuts & Churros offers fresh donuts with savoury toppings, freshly fried churros and Christmas candied apples.

Swiss almond – Schweizermandel offers candied cashews, toffee, roasted salted almonds and cashews, and chocolate covered almonds.

Fogarolli – Fogarolli offers a taste of Italy with Italian coffee, creamy hot chocolate and a delicious selection of pastries. The range includes juicy saffron rolls and classic lussekatter.

Christmas parking campaign

As an early Christmas present for those who live and visit Malmö during Christmas, four of the largest car parks offer parking for SEK 10/hour around the clock for one week each. Experience Christmas in the City in an easy and convenient way! Park your car in one of the city's car parks, from there you can easily get to everything you want.

Petri car park
Week 48 (24/11-30/11)

Triangle car park
Week 49 (1/12-7/12)

Anna Mobility Centre
Week 50 (8/12-14/12)

City Garage
Week 51 (15/12-21/12)

Week 48 (24 November to 30 November) - Petri car park

Week 49 (1/12-7/12) - Triangle car park

Week 50 (8 December to 14 December) - Anna Mobility Centre

Week 51 (15 December to 21 December) - City Garage

Christmas gift hunt with Mickey & Helium

Mickey & Helium are back in town! This time with a Christmas adventure. The digital treasure hunt will take you around Gustav Adolfs Torg and the Christmas market.

The digital treasure hunt will be available at Gustav Adolfs Torg and can be played between 27/11-21/12.

Here's what you need to do to take part in the digital Christmas gift hunt:

Treasure hunting is digital and completely free of charge. All you need is a smartphone and internet access.

Once you have arrived at the Christmas Market, look for the start sign for the treasure hunt. You will find the starting sign in the shop window at Gustav Adolfs Torg 8, next to ECCO.

Scan the code on the start sign to download the app and then scan the same code again to start the treasure hunt.

The treasure hunt is on! The whole family is now making their way around the square in search of the markers on the ground. When you find a marker, scan it with your phone to get a clue about where the next marker is, all the way to the treasure!

Please note that in some cases, the app may be difficult to use on older or non-updated phones. If this happens, another device may work better.

Search and find

Search and Find - A treasure hunt for self-esteem and joy

Search and find makes every walk an experience that inspires, activates and engages. Our digital treasure hunt makes everyday life both more fun and more meaningful for participants and staff in daily activities and special housing. The service arouses curiosity, strengthens self-esteem and brings out the joy of movement through smart activities that are adapted to each individual.

Everything is developed with LSS in focus and designed to be easy to use right away. Participants are given a sense of participation and freedom, while staff are given a tool that simplifies planning and provides valuable insight through monitoring of well-being before and after walks.

Search and Find runs until 21 December.

Here's how it works:

Go on a discovery tour together with Malmö City! With the help of your phone, you will be guided to places in the city centre where you will find different objects in the theme of your choice. Princesses, superheroes or space rockets.

The treasure hunt starts at Gustav Adolfs Torg 8a and leads you on a short tour of the city centre. You walk from Gustav Adolfs Torg up towards the pedestrian street, turn onto Per Weijersgatan and then down Engelbrektsgatan towards the cemetery.

Christmas shopping in the City

In City you can buy all the Christmas presents for mum, dad, sister and brother. And for everyone else too, of course. The shops in City offer a wide range of clothes, furnishings, jewellery, bags, make-up, skincare, electronics and much much more. Still can't decide what to get all your loved ones? Give the whole City away this Christmas with a Malmö City Gift Card.

Opening hours during Christmas

Around Christmas & New Year, the opening hours of the shops in the City and Shopping Centres may vary from the regular hours. Below you will find the general opening hours for the City and Shopping Centres.