Things to do in York today and this weekend

Visit York Minster, walk the Shambles and the medieval city walls, climb the mound of Clifford's Tower and ride through Viking York at the JORVIK Viking Centre. The National Railway Museum is free. The page lists what is on at each of the stages next.

This page lists what is on in York today and this weekend, from shows at the Theatre Royal and the Grand Opera House to gigs at the Barbican and concerts at the National Centre for Early Music.

Go indoors: the National Railway Museum, the Yorkshire Museum, York Castle Museum, the JORVIK Viking Centre and York Minster are all under cover. The rainy-day page lists them with what is on there next.

Yes. The National Railway Museum has free entry and walking the city walls is free all year. Colour & Light, the evening projection show on Clifford's Tower and the Castle Museum, is free when it runs in February, and many JORVIK Viking Festival activities are free too. The page's year strip shows when each one falls. The free page lists the events of the next 30 days that cost nothing.

York Christmas Market usually runs from mid-November to just before Christmas on Parliament Street and St Sampson's Square. The page's year strip shows the dates of the edition coming up.

The JORVIK Viking Festival is held in York each February. The next edition runs from 8 to 14 February 2027, with the theme Vikings v Normans, and Parliament Street becomes a Viking encampment.

York Barbican takes the big touring acts, the National Centre for Early Music has folk, jazz, early and world music in St Margaret's Church, and The Crescent and the Fulford Arms are smaller rooms for bands. The Basement under the City Screen Picturehouse has live music, comedy and spoken word.

Yes. The Minster, the Shambles, the city walls and Clifford's Tower, plus the JORVIK Viking Centre and the museums, make a full weekend, and the Minster and the museums keep a wet day full.

The JORVIK Viking Centre ride, the National Railway Museum with its locomotives, and the Victorian street at York Castle Museum suit children, and the Museum Gardens around the Yorkshire Museum are a place to run around.

York Pride is a parade and festival on a Saturday in early June. The next one is on Saturday 5 June 2027, and the organisers publish the programme on their own site nearer the date.

The Dante Festival is held at York Racecourse in May and the Ebor Festival, with the Juddmonte International, in August. The page's year strip shows the dates of the next ones.