Weymouth is gearing up for its biggest Halloween season yet, with a week of trails, parades and family fun taking over the town from 24th October to 1st November 2026. Local businesses, performers and community groups have joined forces to turn the town centre into one long spooky season, culminating in a spooky parade and Trunk ‘n’ Treat the night before Halloween.
The programme mixes free family activities with ticketed live actor trail, parade, free QR- code trail and Trunk ‘n’ treat that gives local businesses and charities the chance to get involved directly, dressing shopfronts, decorating car boots and handing out treats to visiting families.
Halloween highlights include:
- A Creepy Circus – Live Actor Trail (24th October, 10am-1pm) – a ticketed trail (£2.75pp) of live performers, sinister clowns and cryptic witch fortune tellers, starting at Primark, Weymouth Town Centre (DT4 8NS). Two versions run in 2026, one for younger children and one for older children and adults, with prizes for ticket holders who crack the Circus’s secret. Tickets can be booked via Ticket Tailor.
- A Creepy Circus – QR Trail (25th October-1st November, 10am-6pm daily) – a free version of the trail using QR codes hidden among participating businesses between Primark and Sticks and Bones, with entries into a free prize draw for attraction tickets, vouchers and gifts.
- Spooks by the Sea Parade and Trunk ‘n’ Treat (Friday 30th October, free) – a Halloween parade, led by spooky stilt-walkers and a ghost shop, setting off from outside The Range at 5pm, and a Trunk ‘n’ Treat at Melcombe Regis Car Park from 5.30pm-7pm with spookily decorated cars, stilt walkers, sweets, activities and food and drink to purchase. Plus face painting in the town from 10am-4pm.
As Halloween descends on Weymouth, something strange has arrived. Hidden among the town’s shops and businesses is The Creepy Circus, a mysterious travelling spectacle of petrifying performers, sinister clowns and cryptic witch fortune tellers – and once inside, visitors are trapped until they solve its secrets. Teams travel around the town centre visiting participating businesses, working through spooky riddles, tricky challenges and cryptic clues, each one revealing a piece of the Circus’s secret and guiding them closer to freedom, and to saving the town.
Local businesses and charities are also being invited to take part directly, decorating a car boot for the Trunk ‘n’ Treat and handing out sweets, activity bags or vouchers to visiting families, with a prize for the best-decorated ‘trunk’ on the night.
Dawn Rondeau-Irvine, Chief Operations Officer at We Are Weymouth, said: “Halloween in Weymouth keeps growing every year, and 2026 is our biggest programme yet. From the Creepy Circus trails to the Spooky parade and Trunk ‘n’ Treat, there’s something for every age, and it’s all designed to bring people into the town centre and support the businesses that back it.
“We’re really grateful to everyone taking part – our participating businesses, performers and volunteers – who make this such a special time of year for local families.”
Elsewhere in the town centre, independent businesses and community groups are also getting into the Halloween spirit, including:
- Nothe Fort – Family Fun with Pumpkin Golf, Spooky Bingo, Children’s Ghost Tours, Wand Making, Halloween Crafts and more. For the Brave – on Friday 30th & Saturday 31st October, the gates reopen after dark for Nothe of the Living Dead: The Freak Circus! Face jump scares, puzzles and terrifying challenges in an immersive horror experience.
- Sandworld Sand Sculpture Festival – a Halloween hunt and pumpkin sand-sculpting competition throughout October half term, with prizes for the winners.
- Southside Halloween Frightmare, with a Ghost train, Halloween Frights & a spook-tacular destination filled with thrills, chills, and family-friendly fun.
- Sealife Spooky Ascarium, with ghosts, potions and a Witches Lair
- Belvedere Burlesque – a Halloween cabaret show on 24th October at the Centenary Club, featuring burlesque, cabaret, drag, circus and fire performances (details to be confirmed).
- The Heritage Centre – a special evening Haunted Harbour Tour setting off from the Nothe Tavern, alongside its regular Haunted Harbour Tour running throughout half term.
- The Palm House – a programme of Halloween activities for children throughout the school holidays.
- Sticks & Bones – Spooktacular Halloween Party, 30th-31st October, with live music, Halloween theming and games running across the weekend.
- Wafflicious – special spooky Halloween treats on the menu throughout October.
- Plus lots of LIVE spooky music in many of our clubs and pubs, such as a Zombie Apocalypse party Sat 31st in The Donkey Social and a ‘Ghouls and Demons’ Metal Ball at the Rock horror house Finns.
- Many of our retail businesses are also throwing themselves into the Halloween spirit dressing up their premises to thrill and scare and of course hosting the Creepy Circus Halloween trail
We Are Weymouth continues to champion events that showcase the town’s unique blend of seaside charm, local history, and community spirit.
