Edinburgh Festival: Crowd-puller fireworks display to be given a miss again. Read details here

The firework display, which is a 45-minute show that generally attracts more than a quarter of a million spectators, will not occur this year at Edinburgh Festival. Due to Covid restrictions, the firework display also didn’t occur in 2020 and 2021.

Though this year is the 75th anniversary of the festival, the fireworks display will not happen this year as well. This is again due to the pandemic, as informed by the organisers of Edinburgh Festival.

According to a representative of the Edinburgh International Festival, fireworks display will be avoided this year “due to planning times, coming out of the pandemic”.


The spokesperson also said that the Princes Street Garden will still be a significant event.


The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform live in the Edinburgh Playhouse. On Saturday (August 27), the day of the performance, there will be live streaming of the show from the Ross Bandstand.

The fireworks, which signals the end of the festival, has been reported to be one of the grandest pyrotechnic shows in the world.

People can watch the fireworks display from Princes Street Garden, which sits right under Edinburgh Castle, but they need to buy tickets.

However, huge crowds also watch the display of mega Edinburgh Festival from non-ticketed places, such as Princes Street or other vantage points throughout the city.

The live performance of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Princes Street Gardens also accompanies the firework display. The version is also aired on the radio for people to hear, who are outside the garden.

Four tonnes of explosives are used in the display, where nearly 400,000 fireworks are synchronized to the live performing orchestra music.