Holiday Arrangements and Opening Hours

Services

• Bin and box collections

  No information at this time.

• Recycling centres and civic amenity sites

  No information at this time.

• Our offices and switchboards

  No information at this time.

• Bulky waste collection

  No information at this time.

• Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships

  No information at this time.

• Cemeteries and crematorium

  No information at this time.

• Commercial waste

  No information at this time.

• Night-time noise service

  No information at this time.

• Port health

  No information at this time.

Venues and facilities

• City Hall

  City Hall building

  Date	Opening hours
  Monday 26 August	Open 10am to 5pm

  You can access the City Hall building and our Changing Places facility through the front and rear doors on Donegall Square South. 

  Changing Places facilities can be accessed through the rear doors on Donegall Square South after 5pm.

  • Find out more about City Hall

  Toilets and Changing Places

  Date	Opening hours
  Monday 26 August	Open 10am to 5pm

  City Hall grounds

  Date	Opening hours
  Monday 26 August	Open 7am to 9pm

  • Find out more about City Hall grounds

  Visitor exhibition

  You can access the City Hall building through the front and rear doors on Donegall Square South from 10am. 

  Date	Opening hours
  Monday 26 August	Open 10am to 5pm

  • Find out more about the City Hall visitor exhibition

  Public guided tours

  You can access the City Hall building through the front and rear doors on Donegall Square South from 10am. 

  Date	Start times
  Monday 26 August	Public tours at 11am, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm

  • Find out more about public guided tours in City Hall

  The Bobbin Coffee Shop

  You can access the City Hall building through the front and rear doors on Donegall Square South from 10am.

  Date	Opening hours
  Monday 26 August	Open 10am to 5pm

  • Find out more about The Bobbin Coffee shop

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  Registration office

  Date	Opening information
  Monday 26 August (Summer Bank Holiday)	Closed

  • Find out more about our Registration Office
• Belfast Castle

  No information at this time.

• 2 Royal Avenue

  No information at this time.

• Belfast Zoo

  Belfast Zoo is open every day except 25 and 26 December. We recommend booking online.

  • View Belfast Zoo's opening times (link opens in new window)
• Tropical Ravine and Palm House

  No information at this time.

• St George's Market

  No information at this time.

• Car parking

  Our car parks are free to use on these dates (or the allocated bank holiday). 

  Dates not charged at our car parks
  Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 December 2024
  Wednesday 1 January 2025
  Monday 21 April 2025 (Easter Monday)

  All charged car parks (except Smithfield) are open and free to use outside of charged hours.

• Smithfield Market

  No information at this time.

• Public toilets in Belfast

  No information at this time.

• Malone House

  No information at this time.

• Community centres

  No information at this time.

• Leisure centres

  For information on holiday opening hours at our leisure centres, check the Better website (link opens in new window).