The week of October 18–25 will turn Seattle and its surrounding areas into one large autumn stage. Highlights include concerts by Shaboozey, the Earshot Jazz Festival, glass, film, coffee, and Latin dance festivals, family celebrations, sporting events, and dozens of Halloween activities. Those looking for unusual experiences can enjoy ghost walks, horror conventions, costume races, glowing lanterns, themed parties, and performances ranging from the opera Salome to the ballet Dracula. The full program and current event details can be found on the Seattle events page: https://www.events12.com/seattle/
Events in Seattle and the Surrounding Area: October 18–25, 2026
| Date(s) | Location | Description | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 18 | Seattle | Shaboozey concert at the Paramount Theatre. | — |
| Oct. 18 | West Seattle | Fauntleroy Fall Festival with food, live music, carnival entertainment, and family activities. | Event website, map |
| Oct. 18 | Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, and the Eastside | Refract — glass festival featuring exhibitions, films, parties, demonstrations, studio tours, and meetings with artists. | Festival website, schedule, photos, video |
| Oct. 18 | Seattle Center | Benaroya Hall Open House: live music, stories, interactive programs, family activities, food, and performances. | Event website, map |
| Oct. 18 | Seattle Center | Latin dance festival with daytime workshops, evening shows, and social dancing. | Festival website, schedule, tickets, map |
| Oct. 18 | Seattle Center | Northwest Record Show, featuring vinyl records, CDs, and music memorabilia. | Event, map, photos |
| Oct. 18 | Seattle, multiple venues | Tasveer South Asian Film Festival with screenings, panel discussions, galas, and meetings. | Festival website, schedule, map |
| Oct. 18 | Ballard | Mead festival with tastings of six beverages made from nine Washington mead varieties. | Tickets, map, photos |
| Oct. 18 | Seward Park | Water Lantern Festival with food trucks, music, games, lantern-making, and a lantern launch on the lake. | Festival website, map, video |
| Oct. 18 | Sand Point | Snowvana winter sports expo with equipment, a ski swap, films, music, and lift tickets. | Event website, tickets, map, video |
| Oct. 18 | Tacoma | Tacoma Holiday Festival — a gift and holiday merchandise fair with hundreds of booths, workshops, and a visit from Santa Claus. | Festival website, floor plan, map |
| Oct. 18 | Tacoma | Zoo Boo at Point Defiance Zoo: treats, games, costumes, and opportunities to watch animals play with pumpkins. | Event website, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 18–25 | Seattle | Earshot Jazz Festival — dozens of concerts by local and international jazz musicians. Closed on Mondays. | Festival website, schedule, photos |
| Oct. 18–25 | Georgetown | A Circus of Steam and Shadows — an all-ages show with shadow puppetry, live animation, and acrobatics. | Show website, tickets, map |
| Oct. 18–25 | Everett and Shoreline | Mushroom exhibition with species identification, displays of wild mushrooms, and vendor booths. | Everett map, Shoreline map, video |
| Oct. 18–25 | Seattle and Woodinville | Candlelight concerts: a string quartet performs popular music by the light of faux candles. | Tickets and schedule, video |
| Oct. 18–31 | Seattle and the Eastside | Seattle Restaurant Week — special offers at 220 restaurants across the region. | Promotion website |
| Oct. 18–31 | Seattle Center | This is Halloween — a Can Can show with orchestral music, cabaret, burlesque, and video projections inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas. | Show website, tickets, map, video |
| Oct. 18–31 | Seattle Center | Haunted Pub Crawl with ghost stories at four bars. Ages 21 and over. | Tickets, map, video |
| Oct. 18–31 | Seattle Waterfront | Two-hour sailing excursion aboard the schooner Bay Lady, with views of Elliott Bay. | Map, video |
| Oct. 18–31 | Capitol Hill | Haunted Soiree — an immersive theatrical bar show with cocktails and characters inspired by a 1928 crime. Ages 21 and over. | Show website, map, video |
| Oct. 18–31 | Various locations across the region | Halloween haunted houses and forests with horror attractions in Buckley, Seattle, Tacoma, Snohomish, and other cities. | Seattle video, Tacoma video |
| Oct. 18–31 | Various locations across the region | Farm festivals with pumpkin patches, hayrides, and corn mazes. | — |
| Oct. 18–31, weekends | Snohomish and North Bend | Halloween train with apple cider, seasonal activities, and a 90-minute ride. | Event website, map, photos |
| Oct. 18–Nov. 15 | Various Seattle-area theaters | Theater program featuring Eureka Day, I’ll Be Your Superhero, Leonardo, Neha & Neel, Noises Off, Ragtime, and Smoke on the Mountain. | — |
| Oct. 18–Dec. 31 | Pioneer Square | Underground History Tour of Seattle’s original street level, buried after the Great Fire of 1889. | Tickets, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 20 | Seattle Center | An evening with Bill Nye about curiosity, science, innovation, and solving global problems. | Event website, tickets, map, video |
| Oct. 20 | Seattle Center | Seattle Kraken vs. Detroit Red Wings at Climate Pledge Arena. | Schedule, tickets, map |
| Oct. 21 | Lynnwood | Rat City Roller Derby match with snacks and an alcohol-free zone. | Team website, map, photos |
| Oct. 21 and 28 | Seattle Center | Scarecrowber — screenings of three classic horror films: a slasher, a ghost story, and a film about an alien invasion. | Program website, map |
| Oct. 22 | Seattle Center | Howloween — a costume party for dogs with treats, snacks, drinks, and a costume contest. | Event, tickets, map |
| Oct. 22 | Central District | The Totally Halloween Sing Along — an evening of singing along to lyrics displayed on screen, accompanied by music videos. | Event, tickets, map, video |
| Oct. 22–25 | Tacoma | Tacoma Film Festival with feature-length and short-film screenings and special events. | Festival website, map, video |
| Oct. 22–25 | Kent; Oct. 29–Nov. 1 | Disney on Ice: Jump In — Disney characters skate, dance, and recreate scenes from the films. | Show website, photos, video |
| Oct. 23 | Seattle Center | The Night Shift at Pike Place Market: live music, performances, crafts, food, and a beer garden. | Event website, map, video |
| Oct. 23 | Seattle Center | Free Fall Lantern Festival with music, snacks, and a lantern-making workshop. | Event website, map, photos |
| Oct. 23 | SoDo | The Shop of Horrors — Halloween party with two dance floors, fire and aerial performers, and bars. Ages 21 and over. | Event website, tickets, map |
| Oct. 23 | Bothell | Time Warp: Halloween Dance Party with music from different decades. Ages 21 and over. | Event website, map |
| Oct. 23 | Tacoma | Boo Five Three — craft beer and cider tastings, food trucks, and a costume contest. Ages 21 and over. | Event website, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 23–25 | Capitol Hill | Starstuff — three-day festival of original performance, music, stories, and creative exchange. | Website and schedule, map |
| Oct. 23–25 | Lower Queen Anne | Seattle Polish Film Festival with nine films and a short-film program. | Festival website, schedule, map, photos |
| Oct. 23–25 | Monroe | Evergreen Home Show — home expo with 200 booths from local companies. | Show website, map, video |
| Oct. 23–25 | Puyallup | Horror Con — guests, exhibits, vendors, artists, discussions, film screenings, food, and board games. | Convention website, map, video |
| Oct. 23 and 30 | Ballard | A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics — string quartet concert featuring music from The Addams Family, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, and other films. | Tickets, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 23–30, weekends | Eatonville | Hoot ’N’ Owl — Halloween program with candy, games, nocturnal animals, and stories from keepers. | Event website, map, photos |
| Oct. 23–31, Fridays and Saturdays | Seattle Center | Poe Unexpected — improv comedy inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. | Tickets, map, photos, video 1, video 2 |
| Oct. 23–31 | Seattle Center | Richard Strauss’s opera Salome, based on the play by Oscar Wilde; performed in German with English subtitles. | Opera website, map, video |
| Oct. 23–Nov. 1 | Federal Way | Wild Waves Fright Fest: daytime family activities and nighttime attractions with monsters, dark rides, and haunted houses. | Park website, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 24 | Interbay | Proof: Washington Distillers Festival — tastings of gin, whiskey, bourbon, and vodka from dozens of distilleries. Ages 21 and over. | Tickets, map, photos |
| Oct. 24 | Georgetown | Haunted Skies — screening of Snakes on a Plane, dancing to 2000s music, fortune-telling, mehndi, a costume contest, and a museum party. Ages 21 and over. | Event website, tickets, map |
| Oct. 24 | West Seattle | Monster Dash — a costume run and 5K walk on trails, plus a children’s race. | Registration, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 24 | Issaquah | Issaquah Zombie Walk — makeup, games, a dance warm-up, a zombie procession, and a dance show. | Event website, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 24 | Woodinville | Thrill the World — a dance performance set to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, with music, games, and a costume contest. | Event, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 24 | Carnation | Farmview Dinner — a three-course dinner made with farm-grown ingredients, plus a welcome cocktail and appetizer. | Tickets and information, FAQ, map, photos |
| Oct. 24 | Everett | Puget Sound Festival of Bands — competition among high-school marching bands, followed by a final performance. | Festival website, map, video |
| Oct. 24 | Everett | Endurocross — obstacle motorcycle racing combining motocross and enduro. | Event website, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 24 | Auburn | Family Halloween Harvest Festival with games, crafts, inflatables, food, and a Trunk-or-Treat contest. | Festival website, map, photos |
| Oct. 24 | Tacoma | ’90s vs. 2000s Halloween Costume Glow Ball — dance party with music videos and glow accessories. Ages 21 and over. | Event website, tickets, map, video |
| Oct. 24 | Concrete | Concrete Ghost Walk — historical walk featuring stories of miners, lumberjacks, and cement-plant workers. | Walk website, tickets, map, photos |
| Oct. 24–25 | Seattle Center | Oddities & Curiosities Expo — exhibition of unusual objects, taxidermy, fossils, skulls, bones, antiques, and horror memorabilia. | Event, tickets, map, video |
| Oct. 24–25 | Seattle Center | GeekGirlCon — convention for women in science, technology, art, literature, comics, and game design. | Convention website, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 24–25 | Seattle Center | Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair — fair of rare books, maps, prints, and photographs. | Fair website, map, photos |
| Oct. 24–25 | Sand Point | Seattle Coffee Festival with unlimited coffee tastings, live music, and food trucks. | Festival website, map |
| Oct. 24 and 31 | Various locations | Beer Run — a 5K run with beer, prizes, live music, food trucks, and local vendors. | Race series website, video |
| Oct. 24–31 | Various locations across the region | Children’s Halloween events in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and other cities. | — |
| Oct. 24 and 31 | Capitol Hill | Historical neighborhood walk featuring stories about Seattle’s famous people and ghosts. | Event, map |
| Oct. 24 and 31 | Pioneer Square | HalloweenCon — costumed tour of approximately a dozen downtown bars. Ages 21 and over. | Tickets, map, photos |
| Oct. 24 and 31 | Skykomish | Ride on a miniature train across a bridge and through a tunnel; an evening ghost train to Port Orchard may also run on October 24. | Great Northern & Cascade Railway, Kitsap Live Steamers, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 25 | Seattle Center | Dracula ballet performed by International Ballet Theatre, featuring dancing demons, zombies, and Gothic-style scenes. | Ballet website, map, photos, video |
| Oct. 25 | West Seattle | Harvest Fest with a costume parade, a performance by the Seattle Thrillers, trick-or-treating, and a chili contest. | Festival website, map, photos |
| Oct. 25 | Seward Park | Run Scared — 10K, 5K, and 2-mile races, a children’s race, a scavenger hunt, and Halloween treats. | Race website, schedule, map, photos |
| Oct. 25 | Georgetown | The Museum of Fright — family program with a planetarium, brass band, science show, workshops, and face painting. | Event website, map, photos |
| Oct. 25 | Redmond | Captain Jack’s Treasure Run — 12K, 8K, and 5K races, a children’s race, and post-race activities. | Race website, map, photos |
| Oct. 25 and 31 | Fremont | Cat-o-lantern — pumpkin carving in the company of cats; admission includes a pumpkin and tools. | Event website, map, photos |
| Oct. 25–Dec. 25 | Pioneer Square | Seattle Seahawks home games at Lumen Field; during the week covered, the October 25 game against the Kansas City Chiefs. | Team website, tickets, map, photos |
| Oct. 25–Mar. 6 | University District | Washington Huskies basketball season; on October 25, an exhibition game against Washington State. | Team schedule, tickets, map, photos |