From October 17 through 24, Seattle and the surrounding area will become one big autumn stage. The city will welcome a week of concerts by DJ Shadow, Maná, and Tinlicker; festivals of film, jazz, glass, and dance; theater premieres; and sporting events. Halloween fans can look forward to haunted houses, costume parties, zombie marches, ghost walks, and family festivals, while food lovers can choose from restaurant week, mead and spirits tastings, a coffee festival, and autumn fairs. The full schedule and current event information can be checked on the Events12 Seattle website: https://www.events12.com/seattle/
Events and Performances in Seattle: October 17–24, 2026
| Date | Location | Description | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 17 | Seattle | DJ Shadow concert at the Paramount. | — |
| Oct. 17 | Seattle | Maná concert at Climate Pledge Arena. | — |
| Oct. 17 | Seattle | Tinlicker concert at Showbox SoDo. | — |
| Oct. 17 | Bellevue, Renton, Seattle, Shoreline | The Seattle Latino Film Festival, with screenings at various venues. | Tickets and schedule |
| Oct. 17 | Ballard, Seattle | Ballard Wine Walk, with tastings at 15 shops. The event is sold out. | More information |
| Oct. 17 | Columbia City, Seattle | A free evening market with food trucks, local crafts, live music, and a beer garden. | More information |
| Oct. 17 | Mountlake Terrace | A family festival at Nile Nightmares haunted house, featuring games, face painting, costume contests, and photo areas. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 17 | Puyallup | Motorcycle and ATV races at the indoor Puyallup Flat Track. | Event page, schedule |
| Oct. 17 | Lakewood | A free family day with trucks, tractors, hayrides, food trucks, and children’s activities. | More information |
| Oct. 17 | Leavenworth | Oktoberfest with live music, dancing, contests, German food, beer, and a parade. | Website, free shuttle |
| Oct. 17–18 | Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Eastside | Refract glass festival, featuring special events, films, exhibitions, parties, demonstrations, and studio tours. | Website, schedule |
| Oct. 17–18 | Downtown, Seattle | Latin dance festival with daytime workshops, evening shows, and social dancing. | Website, schedule, tickets |
| Oct. 17–18 | Seattle | South Asian film festival with screenings, red-carpet events, discussions, and meet-and-greets. | Website, schedule |
| Oct. 17–18 | Seward Park, Seattle | Floating Lantern Festival with music, games, a lantern-making workshop, and a lantern launch on the lake. | Website |
| Oct. 17–18 | Sand Point, Seattle | Snowvana, a winter sports expo with a ski swap, films, music, food, and drinks. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 17–18 | Tacoma | Tacoma Holiday Festival, featuring hundreds of booths, handmade goods, food, workshops, and Santa Claus. | Website, floor plan |
| Oct. 17–18 | Tacoma | Zoo Boo at Point Defiance Zoo, with costumes, games, treats, and pumpkin-themed animal enrichment. | Website |
| Oct. 17, 24 | Concrete | Concrete Ghost Walk, a historical tour featuring stories about miners, loggers, and early-20th-century workers. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 17–25 | Seattle | Earshot Jazz Festival, with dozens of concerts by local and international musicians. | Website, schedule |
| Oct. 17–25 | Georgetown, Seattle | Circus performance in a steam power plant featuring shadow theater, live animation, and acrobatics. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 17–30 | Eatonville | Hoot ’N’ Owl at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, with candy, games, nocturnal animals, keeper talks, and spooky decorations. | Website |
| Oct. 17–31 | Downtown, Seattle | Haunted Pub Crawl visiting four bars and featuring ghost stories. | Tickets and information |
| Oct. 17–31 | Downtown, Seattle | Poe Unexpected, an improvised comedy inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. | Tickets |
| Oct. 17–31 | Waterfront, Seattle | A two-hour cruise aboard the schooner Bay Lady, with views of Elliott Bay. | — |
| Oct. 17–31 | Capitol Hill, Seattle | Historical tour of Capitol Hill, featuring stories about famous people and Seattle ghosts. | Information |
| Oct. 17–31 | Seattle Center | Richard Strauss’s opera Salome, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, performed in German with English subtitles. | Website |
| Oct. 17–31 | Capitol Hill, Seattle | Haunted Soiree, an immersive show in a stylized Bavarian beer hall with music, theatrical scenes, and actors. | Tickets |
| Oct. 17–31 | Seattle area | A series of architectural walking tours through Seattle neighborhoods. | Schedule |
| Oct. 17–31 | Various cities in the region | Seasonal haunted houses and themed forests in Buckley, Federal Way, Lacey, Seattle, Tacoma, and other cities. | Seattle video, Tacoma video |
| Oct. 17–31 | Fremont, Seattle | Pumpkin carving with cats at Seattle Meowtropolitan. | Website |
| Oct. 17–31 | Various locations | Autumn farm festivals with pumpkin patches, hayrides, and corn mazes. | — |
| Oct. 17–31 | Skykomish | Free miniature train rides on Saturdays. | Website, Kitsap Live Steamers schedule |
| Oct. 17–Nov. 1 | Federal Way | Wild Waves Frightfest: daytime family activities and nighttime haunted houses with rides. | Website |
| Oct. 17–Nov. 15 | Seattle and surrounding area | Theater season featuring Eureka Day, Conscience, Leonardo, Neha & Neel, Noises Off, Ragtime, and other productions. | — |
| Oct. 17–Dec. 31 | Waterfront, Seattle | One-hour Argosy cruise along Seattle’s waterfront and working harbor, with an audio narration. | Tickets and information |
| Oct. 17–Apr. 16 | Pioneer Square, Seattle | Seattle Sounders home soccer season at Lumen Field. The next match is October 17 against CF Montréal. | Schedule, tickets |
| Oct. 17, 2026–Dec. 31, 2027 | Seattle, Tacoma, Eastside | Free attractions, including Bellevue Botanical Garden, museums, art galleries, gardens, a sculpture park, and walking routes. | — |
| Oct. 18 | West Seattle | Free Fauntleroy Fall Festival with music, a carnival, food, and children’s activities. | Website |
| Oct. 18 | Downtown, Seattle | Free Benaroya Hall open house with live music, stories, family activities, and performances. | More information |
| Oct. 18 | Seattle Center | Northwest Record Show, featuring collectible vinyl records, CDs, and music memorabilia. | Event |
| Oct. 18 | Ballard, Seattle | Mead festival with tastings of nine Washington beverages and snacks. | Tickets |
| Oct. 18–25 | Everett and Shoreline | Mushroom exhibitions with identification of visitors’ specimens and vendor booths. | — |
| Oct. 18–30 | Seattle and Woodinville | Candlelight Concerts: string-quartet performances by candlelight. | Tickets |
| Oct. 18–31 | Seattle and Eastside | Seattle Restaurant Week, with special offers at approximately 220 restaurants. | Website |
| Oct. 18–31 | Downtown, Seattle | This Is Halloween, featuring orchestral music, cabaret, burlesque, and video projections inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas. | Website |
| Oct. 18–31 | Snoqualmie | Halloween Train: a seasonal ride on a decorated train, with cider, games, and entertainment at a historic depot. | Website |
| Oct. 20 | Downtown, Seattle | An evening with Bill Nye about curiosity, science, and innovation. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 20–24 | Seattle Center | Seattle Kraken home hockey games: October 20 against the Detroit Red Wings, October 22 against the Utah Mammoth, and October 24 against the Minnesota Wild. | Schedule, tickets |
| Oct. 21 | Lynnwood | Rat City Roller Derby bout at Edmonds College’s Seaview Hall. | Website |
| Oct. 21 | Seattle Center | Screening of three classic horror films as part of Scarecrowber. | Program |
| Oct. 22 | Downtown, Seattle | Free Howloween festival for dogs in costume, with treats, a contest, and prizes. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 22 | Central District, Seattle | Halloween Sing Along with subtitles, music, and Halloween-themed songs. | Event, tickets |
| Oct. 22–25 | Tacoma | Tacoma Film Festival with feature-length and short films. | Website |
| Oct. 22–Nov. 1 | Kent and Everett | Disney on Ice: Jump In, featuring Disney characters on ice. | Website |
| Oct. 23 | Downtown, Seattle | The Night Shift evening program at Pike Place Market, with music, performances, handmade goods, and a beer garden. | More information |
| Oct. 23 | Downtown, Seattle | Free lantern festival at Freeway Park with music, snacks, and workshops. | Website |
| Oct. 23 | SoDo, Seattle | The Shop of Horrors party with two dance floors, fire performers, and aerial acts. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 23 | Bothell | Time Warp dance party with hits from different decades and costumes. | Website |
| Oct. 23 | Tacoma | Boo Five Three beer festival with craft beer, cider, food trucks, and a costume contest. | Website |
| Oct. 23–25 | Capitol Hill, Seattle | Starstuff performing arts festival with music, storytelling, original productions, and workshops. | Website and schedule |
| Oct. 23–25 | Lower Queen Anne, Seattle | Seattle Polish Film Festival, featuring Polish feature-length and short films. | Website, program |
| Oct. 23–25 | Monroe | Evergreen Home Show, featuring 200 booths from local companies. | Website |
| Oct. 23–25 | Puyallup | Horror Con with guests, exhibitions, vendors, panels, films, and games. | Website |
| Oct. 23, 30 | Ballard, Seattle | A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics, a candlelit string-quartet concert. | Tickets |
| Oct. 24 | Interbay, Seattle | Proof spirits festival with tastings of gin, whiskey, bourbon, and vodka. | Tickets |
| Oct. 24 | Georgetown, Seattle | Haunted Skies party at the Museum of Flight, with a film, music, a costume contest, tarot, and a bar. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 24 | West Seattle | Monster Dash 5K costume run and children’s race. | Registration |
| Oct. 24 | Issaquah | Free zombie walk with makeup, games, dancing, and a procession to City Hall. | Website |
| Oct. 24 | Woodinville | Free Thrill the World dance flash mob set to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” | Event |
| Oct. 24 | Carnation | Farmview Dinner with a cocktail, appetizer, and three courses made from farm-grown ingredients. | Website, FAQ |
| Oct. 24 | Everett | Puget Sound Festival of Bands marching-band competition for school ensembles. | Website |
| Oct. 24 | Everett | Endurocross competition with a motocross course and challenging obstacles. | Website |
| Oct. 24 | Auburn | Free family Halloween Harvest Festival with games, rides, crafts, and Trunk-or-Treat. | Website |
| Oct. 24 | Tacoma | ’90s vs. 2000s Halloween Costume Glow Ball with music videos and glow accessories. | Website, tickets |
| Oct. 24–25 | Downtown, Seattle | Oddities & Curiosities Expo with unusual objects, antiques, taxidermy, skulls, and works of art. | Event |
| Oct. 24–25 | Downtown, Seattle | GeekGirlCon, focusing on women in science, technology, art, literature, comics, and game design. | Website |
| Oct. 24–25 | Seattle Center | Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair with maps, prints, and photographs. | Website, photos |
| Oct. 24–25 | Sand Point, Seattle | First Seattle Coffee Festival, with unlimited coffee tastings and live music. | Website |
| Oct. 24, 31 | Various locations | Beer Run 5K series with a drink, music, prizes, and food trucks. | Schedule |
| Oct. 24, 31 | Pioneer Square, Seattle | HalloweenCon, a costume bar crawl through downtown bars. | Tickets |