Woking Park fireworks are Sat 7 Nov 2026, 7.30pm, £11 adult, no bonfire. Knaphill's display is the same night at Vyne Field with a bonfire, adults £9.
Bonfire night itself falls on Thursday 5 November 2026. The display nearly everyone in Woking means is the Woking Fireworks Extravaganza, and it runs two nights later, on Saturday 7 November 2026, in Woking Park, Kingfield Road, GU22 9BA.
Tickets are already on sale, and the club is billing this year as an anniversary.
Updated 3 October: Knaphill’s scout display, on the same night, has confirmed its 2026 times and prices (gates 6pm, bonfire 7pm, adults £9 pre-booked).
Updated 21 October: South Western Railway’s Basingstoke area closure on 7 and 8 November means replacement buses rather than trains from Brookwood on fireworks night; see the travel note below.
Updated 6 October: Guildford Lions’ Firework Fiesta at Stoke Park is also on Saturday 7 November, so there are three big displays within reach of Woking that night. Added below with times, prices and parking, plus a side-by-side table.
The 2026 details, confirmed
Woking District Rotary Club, which puts the event on, describes it on its own website as “Woking’s biggest and best fireworks”, returning on Saturday 7 November 2026 “with another fantastic fully music-synchronised fireworks display, this year with a party theme for our 50th anniversary”.
There is a funfair and a wide catering line-up, and the club says all proceeds go to charities it selects. Woking District Rotary Club is a registered charity in England and Wales, number 1024154.
The running order
The event information page publishes the full timetable, which is unusually precise for a community display.
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 5pm | Woking Park closes to the public and is cleared |
| 5.30pm | Gates, food stalls and funfair open |
| 7.30pm | Fireworks display with synchronised soundtrack |
| 7.55pm | Display ends, approximately |
| 9.30pm | Funfair closes |
| 10pm | Event closes |
Entertainment before and after the display comes from Radio Woking’s Justin Coll.
There is no bonfire. The organisers put it plainly: “Sadly, Park regulations mean that we are unable to provide a bonfire.” If you have come for a fire as well as rockets, this is not that event, and the display itself is the whole of it.
What tickets cost
Prices are published on the club’s ticket page.
| Ticket | In advance | On the night |
|---|---|---|
| Adult, 16 and over | £11 | £13 |
| Child, 5 to 15 | £5 | £6 |
| Family, 2 adults and 2 children | £27 | £30 |
Children under five go in free with a responsible adult. One carer is admitted free with each disabled adult or child, and no ticket is needed for them.
Booking ahead saves £2 on an adult, £1 on a child and £3 on a family, so the saving is modest. The bigger reason to book is availability: the club’s Ticketebo listing says online sales stop at 4pm on the day, after which gate admission is “subject to remaining availability”. Gates take contactless payment only, and no refunds are given after purchase.
What you cannot bring
Bag checks run at every gate, and anyone refusing a search is turned away. Banned: alcohol, glass bottles, Chinese lanterns and personal fireworks, including sparklers. Bicycles and dogs are also refused, with guide dogs the only exception.
Getting in, and the gate to pick
Three gates open at 5.30pm: the main gate beside Pool in the Park, one on Constitution Hill, and one on White Rose Lane. The park closes at 10pm.
Blackness Lane and the skateboard park entrances are shut all evening for safety, so do not plan an approach through either.
The viewing area is on and around the cricket pitch, with the funfair behind Pool in the Park and refreshment stalls spread between them. If you use a wheelchair, the hard-standing viewing area and an accessible toilet are both by the White Rose Lane entrance, where a steward oversees access. Constitution Hill has an incline, so it is the gate to avoid on wheels or with a pushchair.
Parking, and what it actually costs
The organisers recommend Woking Park’s own car park off Kingfield Road, warn that it “is expected to fill up fast”, and point people at the Heathside Crescent multi-storey, a short walk from the White Rose Lane gate. They add the line most event pages leave out: “note that evening parking charges apply in all these car parks”.
Those charges, from Woking Borough Council’s own car park pages:
- Woking Park car park, 545 spaces, 18 of them accessible. Pay and display, coins only, or RingGo location code 7002. The overnight rate is a flat £2.20 from 6pm to 6am. The undercover 3G deck shuts at 6pm, so on the night you want the surface car park.
- Heathside Crescent, 487 spaces, multi storey, 2.1 metre height limit. It is ticketless ANPR: you pay before you exit at a paystation by card or contactless, or through the JustPark app on location code 524095. Flat £2.20 from 6pm to 5.59am.
Blue badge holders park free in council car parks with an exit sticker. The full picture, including the town centre decks, is on our Woking parking page.
The club also asks people not to park in the residential streets around the park, and points out that Woking Park is under a ten minute walk from Woking station, which is the sensible arrival if you are coming in from Brookwood, Byfleet or Worplesdon.
Trains that night: the lines around Basingstoke close all weekend, so on Saturday 7 November Basingstoke stopping trains start from Farnborough and do not call at Brookwood. South Western Railway runs replacement buses from Woking to Farnborough via Brookwood, and to Guildford and Basingstoke via Worplesdon. Trains from London to Woking keep running, with extra services. Details in our 7 and 8 November trains story.
No road closures have been published for the event, by the organisers or by Surrey County Council. The closures that matter here are inside the park, not on the highway. Anything dug up on the approach roads that week will show on our Woking roadworks and travel page.
Knaphill has a display on the same night, with a bonfire
Woking Park is not the only option, and the clash is worth knowing about.
1st Knaphill Scout Group runs the village display, and its own site says the group “organise the annual firework display in Knaphill attracting visitors from all over Woking”. Its firework display page now confirms “our firework display is back for 2026” on Saturday 7 November, the same night as the Rotary display, at Vyne Field, Knaphill GU21 2DL.
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 6pm | Gates open |
| 7pm | Bonfire lit |
| 7.30pm | Fireworks |
| 9.30pm | Event ends, per the ticket listing |
| Ticket | Pre-booked | On the gate |
|---|---|---|
| Adult | £9 | £10 |
| Child, 5 to 14 | £4 | £4 |
| Family, 2 adults and 2 children | £22 | £24 |
Children aged four and under go free, according to the group’s Ticket Tailor listing, where advance tickets are sold. The group says only “limited admissions” will be available on the day, contactless is preferred, and tickets are non-refundable. No alcohol, no sparklers, and no public toilets on site, so plan around that last one with children. (The ticket listing gives the postcode as GU21 2DG; the group’s own page says GU21 2DL. Both put you on Vyne Field.)
Knaphill is the cheaper night out and, unlike Woking Park, it lights a bonfire. Woking Park has the bigger display, the funfair and the toilets.
Guildford’s display is the same night too, and later
Guildford Lions Club’s Firework Fiesta is in Stoke Park, Guildford, also on Saturday 7 November 2026. The club’s Firework Festival page confirms the date and says every penny of profit goes back into the community; this year it is supporting Guildford Shakespeare Company’s knife crime programme for schools.
It is the late option. Woking Park’s display is over by about 7.55pm, while Guildford’s fireworks are the finale at the end of the evening. The club’s key information sheet gives the timings:
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 5pm | Park opens, food, drink and Charlie Maynes funfair start |
| 6pm to 7pm | The Hired Guns, first set |
| 7pm to 7.30pm | Children’s LED show |
| 7.30pm to 8.30pm | The Hired Guns, second set |
| 8.15pm | Gates close, so do not turn up late |
| After 8.30pm | Pains Fireworks display |
| 9pm | Event closes |
Children under 16 go free with an adult, which makes it the cheapest of the three for a family. Adults pay £17 including booking fees from 1 October to 6 November, and £20 on 7 November. The £14 early bird price ended on 30 September. Under-16s must be with an adult, and everyone except small children gets a hand stamp on entry.
Parking is free at Guildford Spectrum on Parkway, opposite the park, and at Guildford College on Stoke Road (no direct entrance from that car park; walk round to Nightingale Road). Guildford High School on London Road is for Blue Badge holders only and closes at 9.45pm. Guildford Borough Council’s York Road multi-storey is a 15 minute walk and costs £2.10 after 6pm, according to the Lions’ sheet. There are two event gates: one inside Stoke Park, reached from Parkway or London Road, and one off Nightingale Road.
Woking fireworks 2026: which display to pick
All three are on Saturday 7 November 2026. Advance prices, from each organiser’s own page, checked 6 October:
| Woking Park | Knaphill, Vyne Field | Guildford, Stoke Park | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organiser | Woking District Rotary Club | 1st Knaphill Scout Group | Guildford Lions Club |
| Gates | 5.30pm | 6pm | 5pm (close 8.15pm) |
| Fireworks | 7.30pm | 7.30pm, bonfire 7pm | After 8.30pm |
| Bonfire | No | Yes | No |
| Adult, advance | £11 | £9 | £17 |
| Child, advance | £5 (5 to 15) | £4 (5 to 14) | Free (under 16) |
| Family of four, advance | £27 | £22 | £34 (two adults) |
| Parking | Pay and display, £2.20 evening | None stated | Free at Spectrum and the college |
For a family of two adults and two children the Knaphill scouts are cheapest at £22. With three or more children, Guildford works out cheaper because every under-16 is free. Woking Park is the one you can walk to from Woking station in under ten minutes, and its display finishes earliest, at about 7.55pm, which suits younger children.
Displays that no longer run
One thing people still search for that is not happening:
Woking Beer Festival, which used to fill the same November slot at Woking Leisure Centre, has ended at that venue. The organising committee wrote that after running “every year since 1994”, declining attendance and a shortage of volunteers meant “in the longer term it is not viable to hold Woking Beer Festival at Woking Leisure Centre” (Woking Beer Festival). No replacement venue has been announced.
What this page will say next
If either display sells out, changes its timings or publishes road or parking arrangements, this page gets updated with the source. The position now: Woking Park on Saturday 7 November, on sale now, no bonfire; Knaphill the same night, on sale now, with a bonfire.
Checked on 6 October 2026 against wokingfireworks.org and the club’s Ticketebo listing (advance tickets still on sale at £11, £5 and £27), Guildford Lions Club’s Firework Festival page and key information sheet, and, on 3 October, 1st Knaphill Scout Group’s own site and Ticket Tailor listing, Woking Borough Council’s car park pages and the CAMRA festival’s closure notice.
Frequently asked questions
When are the Woking fireworks in 2026?
Saturday 7 November 2026 in Woking Park, Kingfield Road. Gates open at 5.30pm and the music-synchronised display starts at 7.30pm, lasting about 25 minutes.
How much are Woking fireworks tickets?
In advance, adults £11, children aged 5 to 15 £5 and a family of four £27. On the night it is £13, £6 and £30, paid by contactless only. Under-fives are free.
Is there a bonfire at Woking fireworks?
No. Park regulations rule one out. Knaphill’s scout display on Vyne Field, the same evening, does have a bonfire, lit at 7pm.
Are there other fireworks near Woking on 7 November?
Yes. Knaphill’s scout display at Vyne Field (fireworks 7.30pm, adults £9) and Guildford Lions’ Firework Fiesta at Stoke Park (fireworks after 8.30pm, adults £17, under-16s free) are both on the same night.
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