Best holiday lights in the Sacramento area? Use our interactive map to explore

The holiday season is upon us, and some of your neighbors have put countless hours into creating luminous home displays. We want to highlight as many of these displays as we can for the Sacramento region.

Below, you will find a Google map that we created with dozens of locations for holiday lights that we visited around the region. The mapped locations include a photo preview of what awaits you and a description of what makes the display unique. We hope this inspires you and people close to you to get out of the house on these dark evenings and to take in these sights on foot or by car.

(Click on the map for a full-screen version, or scroll down below the map for a few more ideas from local towns.)

This story was originally published December 5, 2024 at 5:00 AM.