Big Bang on Friday 6 November, fireworks 8pm, adults £11.50. Tytherington Club opens its gates at 5.30pm on the 5th; Poynton's first display is 7pm on the 7th.

Bonfire night 2026 falls on Thursday 5 November. Four displays around Macclesfield already have a 2026 date, and three of them are on sale now.

Updated 14 October: Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service has published its 2026 list of organised displays. It gives the Tytherington Club’s gates as 5.30pm on Thursday 5 November, and the Big Bang’s gates as 5.45pm (the Big Bang’s own listing still says 5.30pm).

Updated 13 October: Poynton’s early-bird prices ended on 10 October. The Round Table now says gates open at 5.30pm and the first fireworks display is at 7pm. We could not read the current ticket prices: the Zeffy ticket page blocks our checks, so look there before you buy.

Updated 7 October: Alderley Edge Community Primary School’s PTA display on Friday 6 November is on sale, from £6 a child. Poynton’s early-bird prices end on Saturday 10 October; its 2026 timetable is still not posted.

Updated 30 September: Poynton’s tickets are on sale, with early-bird prices of £12.50 an adult, £4 a child and £31 a family until 10 October.

The headline event, The Macclesfield Big Bang at Macclesfield Rugby Club, is booked for Friday 6 November and tickets went live on 13 August. Adult entry is £11.50, the same price as last year.

The Macc Big Bang, Friday 6 November

Priory Park, Priory Lane, Macclesfield SK10 4AE. Everything below comes from the club’s own Eventbrite listing, posted by the venue as Priory Park Venue.

Time What happens
5.30pm Gates open, fairground, food stalls and outdoor bars
7.00pm Bonfire lit
8.00pm Fireworks display
8.30pm Live music and DJs until late
11.30pm Event ends

Tickets, with no separate booking fee shown at checkout:

Ticket Price
Adult, 17 and over £11.50
Child, 5 to 16 £8.45
Child under 5 Free
Family, 2 adults and 2 children £27.50
VIP adult £17.00
VIP child, 5 to 16 £12.50
VIP family £48.00
On-site parking, one car £5.00

VIP is capped at 180 tickets and buys indoor bars and toilets plus a view from the rugby stand. Refunds are available up to 18 days before the event. The club says a limited number of standard tickets will be sold at the gate on the night but advises booking ahead.

Parking at the Big Bang

There are 100 on-site spaces and they must be pre-booked at £5 a car. The club names two off-site alternatives a three to five minute walk away, The King’s School and Fallibroome Academy, and asks people not to park on Priory Lane or in the residential estate across the road. Disabled parking has to be arranged in advance by emailing venue@maccrugby.co.uk by Friday 30 October.

No food or drink may be brought in, and no personal sparklers or fireworks.

One practical note. The rugby club’s own website is the natural place to look for this, but macclesfieldrufc.co.uk sits behind a bot challenge and its event page returned an empty response every time we tried it on 4 September. The Eventbrite listing is the readable source.

Tytherington Club, Thursday 5 November

The Tytherington Club, 90 Dorchester Way, Macclesfield SK10 2JP, is sticking with bonfire night itself. Its What’s On page lists “Bonfire & Fireworks Night” for Thursday 5th November 2026, promising a fireworks display, bonfire, family entertainment and local food vendors.

The club has not published prices, and the “View Event” link on its own listing is broken: it points at a page that returns a 404. The one time on record is from Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service’s 2026 list, which gives gates at 5.30pm.

For scale, Nub News reported that the 2025 edition had gates at 5.30pm, the bonfire lit at 6.45pm and fireworks at 7.30pm, at £13 an adult, £9 for children aged 4 to 15 and £36 for a family of four. Treat those as last year’s numbers until the club posts 2026’s.

Poynton, Saturday 7 November

Poynton Round Table has dated its bonfire night for Saturday 7 November 2026 at Poynton Park, South Park Drive, SK12 1BS. It calls this the 54th year. Tickets are now on sale through the Round Table’s Zeffy ticket page, which lists gates at 5.30pm. These were the early-bird prices, which ended on 10 October:

Ticket Early-bird price
Adult, 18 and over £12.50
Child, under 18 £4.00
Under 3 Free
Family, 2 adults and 2 children aged 3 to 18 £31.00

The Round Table says there are no booking fees. Zeffy asks for an optional percentage contribution to the platform at the payment stage; the Round Table says to select “Custom” and enter £0 if you would rather not pay it. We could not confirm the prices since 10 October, because the Zeffy page blocks automated checks; it shows the live price when you book.

Two things worth knowing before you go:

  • This is an advance tickets event. Nothing is sold at the gate.
  • There is no parking at Poynton Park and none on the surrounding roads, including South Park Drive, Anglesey Drive, Woodside Lane, Vicarage Lane and Glastonbury Drive. Parking restrictions are enforced on the night.

The Round Table lists five nearby car parks: Waitrose and Poynton Civic Centre (SK12 1RB, 204 spaces, five minute walk), Poynton Sports Club on London Road North (SK12 1AG, three minutes), The Centre at 107 Park Lane (SK12 1RB, ten minutes), Queensway Shopping Centre (SK12 1JG, 80 spaces, ten minutes) and behind Well Pharmacy at 4 Park Lane (SK12 1RE, eight minutes). The bonfire page now calls the Poynton Civic Centre parking, next to Waitrose, free; charges may apply at the others. Poynton station is about a 15 minute walk and the 391 and 392 buses run between Macclesfield and Stockport through the village.

The 2025 running order was gates 5.30pm, live music 6pm, bonfire lit 6.15pm, a junior display at 7pm, the main display at 8pm and close at 9pm. On Fatsoma, 2025 tickets were £12 plus £1.20 fee for adults, £6 plus £1 for children aged 3 to 16, £30 plus £1 for a family, and free for under-3s. So this year’s early-bird child ticket was cheaper and the adult one slightly dearer. For 2026 the Round Table has so far posted two times: gates at 5.30pm and the first fireworks display at 7pm. It also asks people not to bring dogs, and the bar takes card and mobile payments only; there is no cash machine on site.

Small inconsistency to ignore: the Round Table’s home page still says the bonfire is “now in its 52nd year” while its bonfire page says 54th.

Alderley Edge Community Primary School, Friday 6 November

The school’s PTA has put its fireworks evening on sale on Eventbrite for Friday 6 November 2026, starting at 5.15pm at the school on Church Lane, Alderley Edge, SK9 7UZ. The listing gives a running time of two hours 45 minutes, so it finishes around 8pm, and describes it simply as “an evening of fireworks and fun”. It has been on sale since 16 September.

Ticket Price With Eventbrite fee
Adult £10.00 £11.55
Child £6.00 £7.21
Family, 2 adults and 1 child £23.00 £25.63
Family, 2 adults and 2 children £26.75 £29.69
Family, 2 adults and 3 children £32.00 £35.37

Sales close at 7.30pm on the night. Refunds are allowed up to seven days before. The listing does not say whether tickets are sold on the gate or where to park.

Still waiting on a 2026 date

Display 2025 date Where it stands
Macclesfield Cricket Club, Victoria Road SK10 3JE Sat 8 Nov No upcoming event on its Eventbrite page at 7 October
Beech Hall School, Macclesfield Fri 7 Nov Nothing published
Church House Inn (bonfire, no fireworks) Fri 7 Nov Nothing published
Alderley Edge Cricket Club, Moss Lane Sun 2 Nov Nothing published
Wilmslow Carnival Fields Sat 8 Nov Nothing published
Macclesfield FC, Leasing.com Stadium Cancelled Nothing published

The cricket club’s Firework and Light Festival is the one most likely to appear next. Its selling point is two displays, a quieter junior one and a louder main one. In 2025 gates opened at 6pm, the junior display ran at 7.15pm and the main one at 8.15pm, at £11.29 an adult, £8.61 for children aged 5 to 16 and £27.33 for a family of four. As at 7 October its Eventbrite organiser page lists nothing upcoming.

Alderley Edge Cricket Club ran its 20th annual display on Sunday 2 November 2025 with gates at 4pm and fireworks at about 6.15pm, at £12 an adult, £8 for under 16s and £35 for a family, rising to £13.50, £8.50 and £40 on the door (wilmslow.co.uk). Wilmslow and District Round Table’s display at Carnival Fields ran on Saturday 8 November 2025 with a free park and ride from Broadway Meadow car park next to Wilmslow Leisure Centre.

Two sources that will mislead you

Macclesfield FC’s firework page. The club’s article headed “Join us for our Firework Extravaganza” is dated 8 October 2024, and the “Friday 1st November” in it is 2024’s date. The club then cancelled its 2025 display outright, saying: “It is with regret that we have had to cancel the firework display this year.” Nothing has been announced since.

Cheshire Fire’s list of organised events. The fire service publishes a list of displays and it is now the 2026 list. Locally it carries the Tytherington Club on Thursday 5 November (gates 5.30pm) and the Big Bang on Friday 6 November (gates 5.45pm, a quarter of an hour later than the Big Bang’s own listing). Poynton and the Alderley Edge school display are not on it, and Macclesfield FC has dropped off. Organisers add themselves, so treat it as a partial list.

Getting there and getting home

Priory Lane is off Prestbury Road on the north-west edge of town, and Poynton Park is a walk from Poynton station. Before you set off, check our Macclesfield roadworks and travel page for anything closed on the night, and our parking in Macclesfield guide for town centre tariffs if you are combining the display with an evening in town.

Sources

Checked on 30 September 2026. Times, prices and dates change: confirm with the organiser before you travel. We will update this page as the remaining displays announce.