Worth Avenue tree lighting 2026: Tuesday, December 1, times and parking

Worth Avenue lights its holiday tree on the first evening of December, and the organizer has posted the 2026 date. The search results for this event are mostly last year’s news clips and other towns’ trees, so we went to the source. We read the Worth Avenue Association’s Holidays On Worth page and the Town of Palm Beach’s Park in Palm Beach page on October 21, 2026. This is what is set for the night, what nobody has published, and where a car can sit while you watch.

What the Association publishes

The Association says the Holiday Tree Lighting is Tuesday, December 1, 2026. Santa and his elves begin the parade at 6:10 PM on the 100 block of Worth Avenue, and Santa lights the tree at 6:25 PM, 15 minutes later. Its listing runs the evening to 8 PM. The Association, a not-for-profit formed in 1938, names the tree lighting among its regular activities, next to its seasonal shopping events and historical walking tours.

• The Worth Avenue Association says the Holiday Tree Lighting is Tuesday, December 1, 2026: Santa and his elves begin the parade at 6:10 pm on the 100 block of Worth Avenue and Santa lights the tree at 6:25 pm. Worth Avenue Association: Holidays On Worth (Holiday Tree Lighting)
• The Association lists among its activities the Holiday Tree Lighting, Seasonal Shopping Events, Historical Walking Tours, Beach Clean Ups and Parking Validation Booklets. Worth Avenue Association: The Association
• The Worth Avenue Association says it is a not-for-profit formed in 1938 to promote, preserve and enhance the Worth Avenue business district. Worth Avenue Association: The Association

What it does not publish

The event page we read carries no parking notes, no street closure notes and no rain plan. It does not say where the tree stands on the block or whether the shops stay open late. We do not fill those gaps with guesses. The Association’s office is at 256 Worth Avenue, Suite 312, phone 561.659.6909, if you need an answer before the night.

• The Worth Avenue Association lists its office at 256 Worth Avenue, Suite 312, Palm Beach, FL 33480, phone 561.659.6909. Worth Avenue Association: The Association

One more point, because the question comes up: this is the Association’s event, not the Town’s. The Town’s events calendar for the season shows no Town tree lighting at all, and no Town ceremony is published, so treat the Association as the organizer for this date.

• The Town Events calendar for October 21, 2026 to May 31, 2027 shows no Town tree lighting, Veterans Day ceremony or Memorial Day ceremony; it shows Town Hall closures on those holidays and America 250 (Nov 14) and Public Safety and Family Fun Day (Feb 20). Town of Palm Beach: Town Events calendar

Parking that evening, from the Town’s numbers

Here is the part the organizer leaves out. The Town says meters on Worth Avenue are active from 9 AM to 5 PM. The parade starts at 6:10 PM, so by the Town’s own table the Worth Avenue meters stop one hour and 10 minutes before the first elf steps off. The Town does not say whether an event night changes that. Midtown is different: the Town lists the Midtown side streets, South Ocean Boulevard, Hammon Avenue and the 100 block of Royal Palm Way as active from 9 AM to midnight, so a space there is paid for the whole evening.

• The Town says meters on Worth Avenue (zones 46102, 46206, 46306, 46406), the 200 and 300 blocks of South County Road, One Whitehall Way (46605), Four Arts Plaza, the 200 and 300 blocks of Peruvian and the North End streets are active from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach
• The Town says Midtown streets (200 to 400 blocks of Brazilian, Australian, Chilean, 300 Hibiscus, 300 Cocoanut) and South Ocean Boulevard, Hammon Avenue and the 100 block of Royal Palm Way are active from 9:00 am to midnight. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach

Rates come from the Town’s Master Fee Schedule: $5.00 an hour for the general run of ParkMobile spaces and $7.00 an hour at Mid-Town Beach and in parts of the 100 blocks, Worth included, in zone 46100. The Association lists the evening as 6:10 PM to 8 PM, one hour and 50 minutes. Two paid hours cover it: $10.00 at the lower rate or $14.00 at the higher one, by our arithmetic. The Town publishes no block-by-block rate map, so the zone sign and the app settle which rate applies; that detail is not published anywhere we could find.

• The Town's Master Fee Schedule sets parking at $5.00/hour for "All other ParkMobile Spaces." Town of Palm Beach: Master Fee Schedule (Rev 10/13/2026)
• The Master Fee Schedule sets $7.00/hour for Sunrise (100 Block), South Ocean Blvd (Mid-Town Beach), parts of the 100 blocks of Brazilian, Australian, Chilean, Peruvian, Worth and Hammon in ParkMobile zone 46100, the rest of the 100 block of Hammon and the 100 Block of Royal Palm. Town of Palm Beach: Master Fee Schedule (Rev 10/13/2026)
• The Master Fee Schedule sets $7.00/hour for parts of the 100 blocks of Worth, Peruvian and other streets in zone 46100 and $5.00/hour for all other ParkMobile spaces, but the Town does not publish a block-by-block rate map. The posted zone sign and the app are the only way to confirm a given space's rate. Town of Palm Beach: Master Fee Schedule (Rev 10/13/2026)

Payment is by ParkMobile: the app, a call to 877-727-5714, parkmobile.io in a browser, or a text of PARK to 77223. No dashboard receipt is needed, because officers check sessions by license plate. A valid disabled placard or plate gets up to 4 hours without charge in any paid space. Fines for expired meters are $60 in commercial areas and $75 in residential areas.

• The Town says to pay ParkMobile by app, by phone at 877-727-5714, by web browser at parkmobile.io, or by texting PARK to 77223. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach
• The Town says no paper ticket is needed on the dashboard; officers verify sessions electronically by license plate. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach
• The Town says vehicles with a valid disabled placard or plate may park up to 4 hours without charge in any paid space; longer stays must pay. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach
• The Town lists most parking fines (expired meters, time limits, illegal parking) at $60 in commercial areas and $75 in residential areas; handicap violations $250; vehicle boot $350. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach

The Town’s parking map adds detail. Zone 46102 on the 100 block, where the parade starts, has 23 spaces and a two-hour session cap; the map gives three hours on the 200 block alone. By our count of that map, the 14 Midtown zones with meters running to midnight hold 436 spaces, 252 of them at the $7.00 beach rate. The two private garages the Town names, Apollo at 405 Hibiscus Avenue and One Parking at The Esplanade, 150 Worth Avenue, publish no rates. One Parking lists valet daily from 9 AM to 6 PM, which ends 10 minutes before the parade. The Town’s parking page lists both. The parking picker ranks every zone by walk.

• The Town lists the Apollo Parking Lot at 405 Hibiscus Ave and One Parking at The Esplanade at 150 Worth Ave. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach

If you read the Association’s parking page you will see three-hour metered parking on Worth Avenue; that is the Association’s figure, and the Town’s own table does not confirm a time limit there. The Association also says to ask participating merchants to validate tickets if you use one of its lots.

• The Worth Avenue Association says three-hour metered parking is available on Worth Avenue via ParkMobile, with valet at the Apollo lot off Hibiscus Avenue and at One Parking in The Esplanade on the 100 block. Worth Avenue Association: Parking
• The Worth Avenue Association says visitors using one of its parking lots should ask participating merchants to validate the ticket. Worth Avenue Association: Parking
• The Town's ParkMobile table is headed "Session Time Limit" but lists only the hours meters are active (for example Worth Avenue 9:00 am to 5:00 pm); it gives a maximum stay only for the Southern Boulevard Causeway and Phipps Ocean Park (4 hours). The Worth Avenue Association says Worth Avenue meters are three-hour and Peruvian Avenue four-hour. The Town does not confirm those limits on its own page. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach

The other holiday dates on the island that week

We checked every dated holiday listing in our events file for the seven days from December 1 to December 7. Besides the tree lighting, there are two:

• Thursday, December 3: The Hot Sardines’ Holiday Stomp at Glazer Hall, The Royal Poinciana Plaza, at 8 PM, ticketed, per the Plaza calendar.
• Sunday, December 6: the Flagler Museum’s Christmas Tree Lighting Festivities, 3 to 5 PM in Whitehall’s Grand Hall. The Museum lists it for Members at the Family/Dual level and above.

Later in December the island’s holiday listings pick up again: Carols on the Lawn at the Four Arts on Sunday, December 13, free and outdoors; the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Christmas Concert on Wednesday, December 16; and the Flagler Museum’s Holiday Evening Tours and Fleurs de Villes from December 18. Our Flagler Museum holiday guide has the tour times and prices. The What’s on this date? checker shows any single day, and the events page lists the season.

Making a night of it

Worth Avenue runs three blocks from the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway, so the 100 block is the ocean end, closest to Midtown Beach and the beach-rate meters. Our Worth Avenue guide covers the vias and the street block by block, and the restaurant guide covers dinner before or after. If you want the history before the lights, the Association’s walking tour runs on Wednesdays from November 4, at 10:30 am, $30 per person.

• The Worth Avenue Association says Worth Avenue spans just three blocks from the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway. Worth Avenue Association: Information
• The Association runs a 75-minute historical walking tour every Wednesday from November 4, 2026 to May 5, 2027, starting at 10:30 am in Via Amore, 256 Worth Avenue; $30 per person, Eventbrite ticket required. Worth Avenue Association: Historical Walking Tour of Worth Avenue

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