Out of This World: Tudor Square Turns Sci-Fi and Spooky
Sheffield city centre's Halloween centrepiece is Out of This World, a free festival of sci-fi, magic and Halloween that takes over the city centre with Tudor Square as its hub. Expect performances, children's films, costume characters, stalls and food. The listing for the most recent programme places it on the Sunday before Halloween, so plan your visit around the final weekend of October.
Markets, Makers and Night Markets
Sheffield's market scene leans into Halloween with a run of free-entry events. The Halloween Night Market at The Steamworks opens the weekend, followed by the Fluffle Makers Market at Victoria Hall and the Makers Market at Heist Brew Co. Red Brick Market runs a Spooky Weekend across two days with free entry. For something quieter, the Crafted fair at the Millennium Gallery brings jewellery, glass, ceramics, woodwork, metalwork, art and textiles, with free entry and a run stretching from late October into December.
- Halloween Night Market – The Steamworks, Friday
- Fluffle Makers Market – Victoria Hall, Saturday
- Makers Market – Heist Brew Co, Sunday
- Red Brick Market Spooky Weekend – free entry, Saturday and Sunday
- Crafted – Millennium Gallery, late October to 24 December, free entry
Pumpkins, Woodland Trails and Animal Encounters
Half-term week fills the city's parks, farms and woods. Graves Park Animal Farm runs pumpkin picking and a spooky woodland walk across the final days of October, while Whirlow Hall Farm hosts Whirlow's Indoor Pumpkin Patch until the end of the month. Leah's Yard puts on a Halloween Animal Encounter, and free pumpkin carving workshops run at The Light over two days. In Ecclesall Woods, Twilight Trails' "Whispering Woods" takes over a Wednesday evening, and Storrs Woodland stages a Jack O'Lantern Spectacular across a weekend, free to enter. Sheffield Manor Lodge offers Halloween crafts over four days, and the Sheffield General Cemetery runs free creepy craft sessions from 28 October.
Concerts, Cinema and Words After Dark
Music and film carry the season. Crookes Social Club hosts Spooky Big Band Tunes with free entry, and Concerteenies family Halloween concerts play The Greystones pub on two dates at the end of the month. The Showroom Cinema hosts Celluloid Screams film festival until 31 October, when the Sheffield General Cemetery screens The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The same venue runs a Black History Month film festival into early November. Off the Shelf Festival of Words, one of the UK's largest literary festivals, runs until 3 November with more than 80 live and online events across the city at varying ticket prices. At Sheffield Central Library you can catch the Beyond the Bassline exhibition until the end of October, and DJ Paulette's Welcome to the Club on 30 October. Weston Park Museum's Caribbean Footsteps exhibition continues until 2 May 2027.
When to Go and Where to Eat
Halloween in Sheffield concentrates in the last week of October, with half-term events running from around 25 to 31 October and several markets and the Out of This World festival falling on the final weekend. Food appears across the programme: Out of This World brings stalls and food to Tudor Square, and the city's markets and craft fairs are where you will find seasonal traders. Moor Market runs free children's Halloween crafts and a spooky trick-or-treat trail across various dates. For full listings, the Welcome to Sheffield website hosts a What's On section where organisers upload events, making it the reliable place to check before you travel.
Start with the final weekend of October: book your travel around half-term, check the Welcome to Sheffield What's On listings for exact times, and build your days from Tudor Square outward to the farms, woods and markets that make Sheffield's Halloween its own.