Got any plans for November 15th? You do now.

We were already INSANELY excited by the news that Dublin was getting its own Rockefeller-style tree this year at the Custom House Quarter, and now plans to Christmas-ify the rest of the city have been revealed.

The Grafton St Christmas lights will be switched on next month during an official ceremony on Sunday November 15. 

Free family entertainment will kick off at 4pm, with an unannounced "special guest" showing up to turn on the lights once the sun sets.

Henry St's bauble light wreaths will be lighting up the city from a few days earlier, as they'll be switched on from Thursday November 12. Again there'll be free entertainment from 5pm, with a special guest in attendance to flick the switch.

In the spirit of all things Christmassy, DublinTown.ie have put together a pretty cool infographic with some facts about the famous lights.

For example, did you know it takes 20 people a full FOUR weeks to hang the lights?

 

There are 47,350 individual bulbs on Grafton St alone – we'd hate to be tasked with untangling those…

 

The lights will be on for a total of 1,000 hours between November and January.

 

Each light curtain you see contains 50,000 bulbs – there are three throughout the city.

 

And around 25m people are expected to walk under the lights this year.