Noël Christmas Skyshow

Overview

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a superhero? No, it's a stunning festive display hovering above the Royal Botanic Gardens as part of new Christmas festival Noël Sydney. This massive event is already filled with luminous sights, including light projections across buildings, but it's the nightly drone show running until Christmas Eve that'll get you looking up.

To give you an idea of how big Noël Sydney is, it's had to extend its space throughout the Royal Botanic Gardens by 50 percent. The Noël Christmas Skyshow isn't small, either. Telling a Christmas story called Santa's Coming to Sydney in the heavens, this aerial wonder features 500 drones flying, soaring and dancing in the air over Farm Cove.

The term 'making shapes' truly does apply here — including words, stars, a globe, a Christmas tee, animals, decorations and the jolly red-suited figure synonymous with this time of year. These images come together to spin a Aussie Christmas tale about a kangaroo called Sydney leading Santa and his present-filled sleigh from the North Pole to the Harbour City.

Sydney's first major Christmas drone show, entry to the Noël Christmas Skyshow is free, with two viewings each evening — at 8.15pm and around 10pm — until Saturday, December 24. And the best place to scope it out? The Parade Ground.