Woking Fireworks 2026: Sat 7 Nov, 7.30pm, £11 Advance

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 events page lists a group firework display on 7 November under upcoming events, the same Saturday as the Rotary display.

That is the whole of what the group has published for this year. Its firework display page still carries the 2025 event: Saturday 8 November 2025 at Vyne Field, Knaphill GU21 2DL, gates 6pm, bonfire 7pm, fireworks 7.30pm, with pre-booked tickets at £8 an adult, £4 a child and £20 for a family of four, rising to £10, £4 and £22 on the gate. No alcohol, no sparklers, and no public toilets on site.

Treat those 2025 figures as a guide to the shape of the night, not as this year’s prices. Knaphill, unlike Woking Park, does light a bonfire.

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 Knaphill publishes its 2026 times and prices, or if either display sells out, this page gets updated with the source. Until then the position is: Woking Park on Saturday 7 November, on sale now, no bonfire; Knaphill the same night, date only.

Checked on 5 September 2026 against wokingfireworks.org, the club’s Ticketebo listing, 1st Knaphill Scout Group’s own site, Woking Borough Council’s car park pages and the CAMRA festival’s closure notice.