Overview
It comes around but once a year — the season when spookiness is at its peak. Halloween in Sydney is a frightfully fun affair, with parties, festivals and activations summoning ghoulishly good times across the city. We've rounded up the best ways to celebrate All Hallow's Eve in the Harbour City, with events to suit families with young trick-or-treaters, couples looking for devilish date night ideas, and revellers in search of a death-defying dance floor.
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On Saturday, October 26, prepare to experience Australia’s largest LGBTQIA+ Halloween party. A haunting takeover of Liberty Hall will go from dusk till dawn (6pm–2am), so get ready for a night full of eerie excitement, spine-tingling surprises, and ghostly good vibes. Brought to you by Sydney based LGBTQIA+ events company, GAYM Entertainment, this spook fest will star local artists and international headliners in the DJ booth, including Dani Brasil, John Course, Mario Beckman, Nat Valverde, Sam Gee and Tommy Trash.
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From October 31–November 3, The Rocks — an area infamous for its ghostly history — will be transformed into an otherworldly realm of fear-inducing fun featuring a zombie dance party, a horror-filled food market, a Halloween parade and much more. First Fleet Park will transform into the Haunted Woods, where 22 food stalls styled as eerie cabins will create a New Orleans-inspired food and drink market where you can indulge in bone-rattling bites and channel your inner Dracula with cocktails served in blood bags.
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Sydney’s iconic harbourside funfair, Luna Park, is usually a place of light, bright family thrills. But between October 25–31, a darker side shall be revealed. Luna Park’s annual Halloscream festival returns to send a shiver down your spine with a program of spooky spectacles and white-knuckle entertainment. All ticket holders to Halloscream nights also get unlimited access to all rides across Luna Park but for those who really want to up the ante, VIP tickets are also available offering access to an exclusive lounge featuring spooky drinks, roaming performers and grid-worthy photo opportunities.
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One of Sydney’s most popular tourist attractions is set to undergo a blood-curdling transformation. During two consecutive weekends, October 25–27 and November 1–3, a wander around the ghostly grounds of Cockatoo Island will become a delightfully nightmare-inducing experience. Visitors can face their fears at the Tunnels of Terror — a pair of immersive Halloween pop-ups featuring live actors. First, there’s The Haunted, filled with spectres from beyond the veil, and then, taking its cues from Cockatoo Island’s troubled past as a sanatorium for orphaned girls, there’s The Asylum, a deranged descent into madness.