Things to do in Belfast today and this weekend

See Titanic Belfast and the Harland & Wolff cranes Samson and Goliath, go inside City Hall, spend a morning at St George's Market or the Ulster Museum, and catch a show at the Grand Opera House or a gig at the Ulster Hall. The page lists what is on at each of them next.

The page ranks what is on in Belfast today, tomorrow and this weekend, from concerts at the O2 Belfast and the Ulster Hall to shows at the Grand Opera House and the Lyric. St George's Market is open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Go indoors: Titanic Belfast and the Ulster Museum are both indoors, Crumlin Road Gaol is a tour through the old prison, and St George's Market is under a roof. The rainy-day page lists what is indoors, with what is on there next.

Yes. The Ulster Museum is free to enter, the Christmas Market in the City Hall grounds is free to enter in season, and Culture Night, when the council runs it in September, has free events across the city centre. The free page lists the events of the next 30 days that cost nothing.

The Belfast Christmas Market is in the grounds of City Hall, free to enter, from mid-November until just before Christmas. It opens on the day the Christmas lights are switched on outside City Hall, which is a separate ticketed event. The page's year strip shows the dates of the market coming up.

The O2 Belfast (the former SSE Arena) and the Waterfront Hall take the big shows, the Ulster Hall is the old concert hall, and the Empire Music Hall, the Limelight and the Oh Yeah Music Centre are the places for gigs and club nights.

Yes. The SSE Arena was renamed the O2 Belfast on 1 July 2026 under a ten-year naming deal. It is the arena on the Odyssey site, where the Belfast Giants play and concerts and comedy shows are staged.

The festival runs twice a year: as Out to Lunch through most of January, and in a spring edition that has run from late April into May (29 April to 10 May in 2026). The page's year strip shows each edition with its dates once they are announced.

Belfast Pride is usually in late July, with the parade on a Saturday: in 2026 the festival ran from 17 to 26 July, with the parade on Saturday 25 July. The page's year strip shows the next dates once the organisers announce them.

Yes: in two days you can do Titanic Belfast, City Hall and the Ulster Museum, spend a morning in St George's Market, and still go to a show or a gig in the evening. The page shows what is on.

The Ulster Museum is free to enter, Titanic Belfast has a shipyard ride and a ship you can go aboard, and the Odyssey site has the W5 science centre. The MAC has a family programme, and at Christmas the Waterfront Hall has a pantomime.