Pairi Daiza celebrates with 23 late-night openings its biggest Halloween ever with.

On the programme: 246 artists, 55 shows and activities, including a ghost train featuring a giant werewolf, the voodoo traditions from Benin and the new mapping projection The Legend of the Moon Dragon.

28/09/2026

From 17 October to 8 November inclusive, Halloween will take over the ten Worlds of Pairi Daiza. For 23 days, the Garden will remain open until 10 p.m.

Designed for the whole family, this year’s programme will put fantasy, surprises and wonder centre stage. Throughout the day and into the evening, theatre, dance, circus, aerial acrobatics, live music, street performances and video projections will bring the visit to life. Across the Garden’s 80 hectares, 75 sets created especially for the occasion, including 26 legendary creatures, will transform the landscape and immerse visitors in worlds that are, by turns, mysterious, enchanting and just a little unsettling. It also offers a unique artistic exploration of how cultures around the world approach the transition between life and death, related rituals and celebrations.

This year, 246 artists will take part in the festivities, 43% more than in 2025. In total, 55 shows and activities will be on offer, an increase of 30%, with 40% of them being completely new. Some will take place at specific locations throughout the Garden, while others will appear unexpectedly along the way.

Visitors can also take an active part in the Halloween celebrations. Those who wish to can come in fancy dress, take part in the daily "fancy dress" competition or solve a word puzzle by hunting for hidden letters. This makes Halloween at Pairi Daiza a participatory experience for visitors of all ages. Visiting families are often coordinating their themed outfits.

More than 1,000 pumpkins and chrysanthemums will complement the colours of autumn, while artists and characters may appear without warning around the next corner. A family-friendly Halloween designed to make visitors smile, dream, marvel and wonder.

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One of this year’s most striking new attractions travels across the various Worlds of Pairi Daiza

Among this year’s new attractions is a ghost train that will travel through the different Worlds of Pairi Daiza.

Created by Grand les Yeux, Drop The Spoon and The Pairi Daiza Steam Railway, the train will feature carriages filled with moving characters and visual effects. A skeleton will be at the controls of the locomotive. At the rear, one extraordinary passenger is certain to attract attention: a 2.5-metre-tall, animated werewolf.

As the ghost train makes its way through the Garden, this new feature will become a striking moving Halloween spectacle in its own right.

Discovering voodoo

The journey continues in The Land of Origins. At the heart of the stilt village inspired by Ganvié, visitors will be able to discover different aspects of Beninese voodoo, a spiritual and cultural tradition that remains very much alive in Benin today, far removed from the stereotypes to which Western fiction has so often reduced it.

Masks, music, dance, rituals, medicinal plants and crafts will offer an insight into its practices and symbolism. The objects on display have been acquired directly from Beninese craftspeople, while the costumes have been blessed in Benin in accordance with local traditions.

Priestesses, musicians and dancers will inhabit the different houses of the village, alongside a bokonon, a Beninese voodoo priest, bringing this tradition to life through the knowledge and experience of people who know and practise it themselves.

Día de los Muertos among Edenya’s tropical plants

For its very first Halloween, Edenya, the world’s largest indoor tropical garden, will also take on a completely different atmosphere.

Amid the tropical vegetation, eight musicians and dancers will bring a world inspired by Día de los Muertos to life three times a day, accompanied by a 3.5-metre-tall skeleton. Giant skulls nearly 3 metres high, inspired by Mexican iconography and painted by local artists, will complete the setting. Music, dance and colour will lie at the heart of this new experience.

After sunset, light transforms the Pairi Daiza experience

As night falls, light, video and water projections transform buildings, landscapes and water features, revealing new perspectives and bringing a new sense of wonder after dark.

Alongside existing productions, a new visual projection will appear at the lake this year: The Legend of the Moon Dragons. This production was developed in collaboration with Grand les Yeux and Drop The Spoon and marks the beginning of a new story centred on moon dragons linked to the various Worlds of Pairi Daiza.

Visitors will encounter local folklore tales, including the legend of the “Three Jeannes”, three local witches, Monks’ Choir and a Bat family.

From walkabout performances featuring giant puppets, to eerie circus acts and dazzling fire shows, alongside meticulously handcrafted costumes and artworks, this Halloween experience is truly a masterpiece.

The giant Moon Dragons will also return to the Pairi Daiza Dome. This unique family of dragons will keep watch over a treasure trove of semi-precious stones from around the world. The magician Valentin will also perform in the Dome from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., followed by concerts from 6 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

Pumpkins for the animals

The animals will also enjoy a few seasonal surprises. Throughout the year, their keepers provide enrichment activities designed to stimulate their curiosity and encourage natural behaviours, through games, new scents, changes to their environment or opportunities to forage for food. At Halloween, some of these activities will simply take on a seasonal twist. Elephants, hippos and gorillas may, for example, discover and enjoy pumpkins, while other animals will find surprises suited to their diets: mealworms for the meerkats, for instance, or meat for some of the big cats.

The festivities and extended opening hours until 10 p.m. will be organised with the same respect for the needs of every species. The animals will not be required to alter their usual routines: some will return to their indoor areas in the early evening, as they normally do, while others will be able to move out of public view at any time. The location of the activities and their noise levels will be coordinated with the zoological team to ensure that the animals’ rest and welfare remain a priority at all times.