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Toronto Santa Claus Parade 2023

Live Stream, Lineup, Route, Start Time

Toronto Christmas lights

The Toronto Santa Claus Parade is the perfect way to kick start your festive season. It is an iconic Christmas Parade with  amazing floats, marchers and bands and is very popular in North America and Canada, drawing in crowds of 100s of thousands of people, It's also one of the earliest, typically firing the starting gun on the festive season as early as mid-November.

One unique feature of this event is the Celebrity Clowns, offering people the chance to dress up and join the parade in full clown costume, a novel concept but perhaps the stuff of nightmares for some!
 
While the main parade has been taking place for over 100 years now, having started way back in 1905, a more recent addition to the schedule is the Holly Jolly Fun Run, a 5k fun run that starts just 30 minutes before the big parade and follows the same route. The proceeds from the run go towards helping fund the parade for the following years.

Date

The parade date for 2023 is 26th November.

Start time

The Toronto Santa Claus parade gets underway at 12.30pm, with the Holly Jolly Fun Run 5k race starting 45 minutes earlier at 11.45am

Parade Route

 Both the parade and the run follow the following route:

Start at Christie Pits
Bloor Street West (Holly Jolly Fun Run starts here)
Avenue Road
Front Street West
Finish at St Lawrence Market

See a full map of the parade route here:

Santa Claus parade map

Note that street closures in the parade area start from 8.00am so parking in the immediate vicinity is very restricted, making public transport the best option for those planning to attend. Viewing points are plentiful along the route, with the only real tips being to warp up warm and arrive early!

Live Streaming

The Santa Claus parade is one of those events that was quick to embrace the growth of online streaming and has been providing webcast viewing options for a few years now.

The whole parade is shown live by Canadian TV channel CTV, which also provides an online stream via their CTV Go service, although please be aware you will require an active subscription to be able to log in and watch:

Santa Claus parade live stream

An alternative viewing option you might like to consider is to check out some of the live webcams that are positioned in and around Toronto, offering a different perspective on the days events:

Toronto webcams

Hotels and Accommodation

Hotel accommodation in Toronto is plentiful and relatively reasonably priced for such a cosmopolitan city. November isn't one of the busiest months to visit so there should be some decent deals to be had if you shop around.

You can check availability and make reservations for local hotels here.

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