Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, and Philadelphia is packing the whole weekend, from candy crawls to a flea market finale in the Northeast.
Saturday, October 31, the South Street Headhouse District runs a full day of free neighborhood activities. The candy crawl runs noon to 5 PM at participating shops, with candy supplied by Frankford Candy. A costume promenade and vintage car parade starts at Fifth and South streets at 1 PM, followed by a trunk-or-treat at Headhouse Plaza from 1:30 to 4 PM. Halloween at Headhouse runs 4 to 8 PM, with trick-or-treating through the historic Shambles. Participating bars and restaurants offer Halloween specials from 5 PM as part of Boos and Brews. The Theatre of Living Arts screens The Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight, for ages 21 and older, with separate tickets.
South Philadelphia also hosts the East Passyunk Fall Fest on Saturday, a free festival from 11 AM to 4 PM along East Passyunk Avenue between Morris and Dickinson streets. More than 110 makers, vendors, neighborhood businesses, and community groups take part, with a Creepy Crawl starting at 11 AM, an outdoor screening of Hocus Pocus at 12:30 PM at Tasker and 11th streets, free pumpkin carving from 11 AM to 3 PM while supplies last, and live music from 2 to 4 PM. The festival runs rain or shine.
Longer-running attractions stay open all weekend through Sunday, November 1. Halloween House Philly, inside the former Forever 21 at Fashion District Philadelphia, has 10 themed rooms without live scare actors or jump scares. Franklin Square’s mini-golf course gets Halloween decorations and evening fog and lighting. Cityside Pumpkin Patch at Liberty Point on the Delaware waterfront has 10,000 pumpkins, a pumpkin-smashing zone, and scarecrow archery.
Sunday brings the Northeast’s own closer: the Franklin Mills Flea Market season finale, 8 AM to 4 PM at 90 Franklin Mills Boulevard near Philadelphia Mills. More than 200 vendors sell new, used, and vintage merchandise, and admission and parking are free. It is the market’s last day of the 2026 season.
One practical note for the weekend: clocks fall back one hour at 2 AM Sunday, so Sunday evening gets dark about an hour earlier. The forecast, per the National Weather Service outlook cited in weekend guides, calls for sunny afternoons in the 60s with no rain in the forecast.
