Holiday arrangements and opening hours in July 2025

Bin and box collections

Our bin collections may vary from Monday 14 July 2025. If your bin is not collected on your usual day, you should leave it out again by 7am the following day for collection.

If it still hasn’t been collected by 7pm the day after your scheduled collection, you can report a missed bin collection.

• Find your bin collection day (link opens in new window)

There were no bin or box collections on Saturday 12 July 2025.

Bryson recycling collections

Collection arrangements for kerbside recycling boxes collected by Bryson Recycling are shown in this table.

Recycling centres

Last entry is 15 minutes before closing time.

• Find out more about recycling centres

Civic amenity sites

• Find out more about civic amenity sites

Our phone lines and customer receptions

• Find out how to contact us

Bulky waste collections should be booked. There are no collections on bank or public holidays.

• Read more about our bulky waste collections.

Registration office

• Find out more about our Registration Office

Bereavement Services offices

Our Bereavement Services office is in the Cecil Ward Building. 

• Find out more about Bereavement Services office

Burials and cremations

There were no burials or cremations on Saturday 12 July 2025.

• Read more about City of Belfast Crematorium
• Read more about our cemeteries

Cemetery grounds

Our cemetery grounds were open as normal throughout the bank holiday period.

• Read more about our cemeteries

City Cemetery Visitor Centre

City Cemetery Visitor Centre was closed on Saturday 12 July and Monday 14 July. The centre was open as normal on Tuesday 15 July.

• Find out more about the visitor centre
• Find out about the city cemetery heritage project

• Read more about commercial waste collections

• Read more about our dog warden service

There was no night-time noise service on:

• Friday 11 July
• Saturday 12 July

Our night-time noise service operated as usual on:

• Sunday 13 July
• Monday 14 July
• Tuesday 15 July

Read more about our night-time noise service

Our imported food team for servicing trade arriving from GB ports operated as normal (24 hours a day) throughout the bank holiday period.

For imported food checks on container freight from rest of world, and for shipping and other port health queries, our service was closed on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 July 2025.

• Read more about our Port health service

City Hall building

• Find out more about City Hall
• Find out more about the City Hall visitor exhibition

Visitor exhibition

Public guided tours

• Find out more about public guided tours in City Hall

Toilets and Changing Places

The Bobbin Coffee Shop

• Find out more about The Bobbin Coffee shop

City Hall grounds

• Find out more about City Hall grounds

Registration office

• Find out more about our Registration Office

Belfast Castle was open as normal throughout the July bank holiday.

• Find out more about Belfast Castle opening hours (link opens in new window).

• Find out more about 2 Royal Avenue

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)

Our parks open at 7.30am every day. Closing times change as daylight lengthens or shortens. 

• Find out more about park opening hours

• Read more about the Tropical Ravine

St George's Market was open as usual on:

• Friday 11 July 2025
• Saturday 12 July 2025
• Sunday 13 July 2025

Read more about St George's Market

All our car parks were free to use on:

• Saturday 12 July 2025
• Monday 14 July 2025

Normal charges apply on all other dates.

Read more about our car parks.

• Read more about Smithfield Market

• Find out more about public toilets in Belfast

• ​Visit Malone House website (link opens in a new window)

Opening hours on other dates 

• Read more about our community centres

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