Seal Beach Christmas Parade
Seal Beach, CA · Holiday
- When
- December 4, 2026
- Where
- Main Street, from the pier to PCH · Seal Beach · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A holiday parade that marches along Main Street from the Seal Beach pier to Pacific Coast Highway, with a different theme each year. It is produced by the Seal Beach Lions Foundation and staffed mainly by Seal Beach Lions Club members. The 2026 parade is the 48th, and it draws large crowds.
The history within reach
- Naples and the canals1.2 mi
Three islands cut into the tidelands with canals and a gondola service, sold as an Italian fantasy.
Dredged out of Alamitos Bay in 1932 so the Los Angeles Olympics would have somewhere to row, it was the first purpose built rowing course in the United States.
Split off in 1834 from Rancho Los Nietos, one of the first Spanish grants in Alta California, this ranch ran to more than 28,000 acres.
Dredged out of the Los Cerritos Wetlands in the 1920s as a tidal swimming lagoon, it collected so much street runoff that Long Beach children grew up calling it Polio Pond.
Cal State Long Beach needed a basketball arena and in 1994 got a blue pyramid 18 storeys tall, visible from the freeway and from the air on the approach to LAX.