Overview

• Halloween lands on Friday, October 31, 2025, setting up a full weekend for costumes, home decorations, trick-or-treating and parties.
• Organizers plan New York City’s Greenwich Village Halloween Parade to mark its 52nd edition on Sixth Avenue with about 80,000 costumed participants and more than 2 million spectators under the theme “Potluck.”
• Salem, Massachusetts, is set to host its Haunted Happenings with parades, Witch Museum visits and tours of historic cemeteries.
• New Orleans will feature French Quarter festivities and ghost tours around St. Louis Cemetery, including sites tied to Marie Laveau.
• The date precedes All Saints’ Day on November 1 and leads into Day of the Dead on November 2, and BBC-cited figures note Halloween as the largest non-religious U.S. festival by chocolate sales.