Hereford Fireworks 2026: Racecourse, Sat 7 Nov, £7 Early

Bonfire Night itself falls on Thursday 5 November 2026. Hereford’s display is two nights later. The St Michael’s Hospice Hereford Fireworks run on Saturday 7 November 2026 at Hereford Racecourse, Roman Road, HR4 9QU, with gates from 5pm and the event listed as 5pm to 9pm.

That is confirmed in two places by the people running it. The hospice’s own event page carries the date, the times and the prices, and Hereford Racecourse lists Fireworks, Saturday 7th November 2026 on its own What’s On calendar with tickets already on sale.

What is confirmed and what is not

Confirmed by the hospice:

• Date: Saturday 7 November 2026
• Times: gates open from 5pm, event runs to 9pm
• Venue: Hereford Racecourse, Roman Road, Hereford, HR4 9QU
• Sponsor: Leach’s, the Hereford scaffolding safety firm
• On stage: 13 Rivers, a pop and rock covers band back for a second year, and Nicola’s School of Dance, back for a third

Not confirmed. The racecourse’s own listing for the same event still says “TBA” against gates open, start time and end time, while the hospice page says 5pm to 9pm. And neither page publishes the time the fireworks themselves go up. In 2025 the light show started at 7.30pm and the fireworks at 7.45pm, so expect something similar, but nobody has printed a 2026 running order yet. We will update this page when they do.

Tickets and prices

Prices rise in three steps, and the cheapest band is on sale now. All figures are from the hospice’s own ticket page.

Premium is £15 an adult and £10 a child. It adds a reserved parking space near the main entrance, covered private seating, the VIP bar and a private meet and greet with Benny Bear, the hospice mascot.

Two things to read carefully on that page. The banner at the top says “Standard from £5” and “Premium from £10”, which are the child prices, not the adult ones. And the child age band is printed as 2 to 17 in the early bird and standard rows but as 0 to 7 in the on the day and premium rows. That is almost certainly a slip on their side, but if you are buying for a twelve year old on the gate, ask before you pay.

Fairground rides, games and inflatables are inside the ground but cost extra on top of the ticket. Food and a licensed bar are on site. The hospice says card should work but warns the signal is not guaranteed, so take some cash.

Tickets are non-refundable and are sold through the hospice’s own shop. The charity has put a scam warning on the page: buy direct, because tickets from resellers will not be accepted.

The rules that catch people out

• No sparklers. Not allowed on site at all. They sell light-up merchandise instead.
• No dogs or other pets, service animals aside.
• No alcohol brought in, no drugs, no sharp objects. There is a bag search on arrival and anything prohibited has to be surrendered or you are refused entry.
• Under-16s must be with an adult. No child gets in without one, and that adult needs their own valid ticket.

Parking, and the free bus that avoids it

There are two racecourse car parks and one park and ride, and they are not equivalent.

• Roman Road (A4103) entrance and Holmer Road (A49) entrance both lead to racecourse parking, with marshals directing. Follow them.
• If you park at the Leisure Centre on Holmer Road, pay and display charges apply. That is the hospice’s own warning, and it is the trap: the leisure centre car park is not the racecourse car park.
• Free park and ride from Merton Meadow. Yeomans Travel runs a free shuttle from Merton Meadow to a drop-off outside Halo Leisure Centre. Parking fees still apply at Merton Meadow. The published shuttle times are 5.45pm, 6.05pm and 6.45pm out, and 8.15pm, 8.35pm, 8.55pm and 9.15pm back. Donations welcomed, fare free.

Merton Meadow is the cheapest all-day council car park in the city at £5.50, and the first 30 minutes are free county-wide, though 30 minutes is no use to you here. Our parking in Hereford page has the full tariff and the free-period rules.

The hospice asks people to car share or walk where they can. Roman Road and Holmer Road both funnel traffic onto the A49, and 9pm chucking-out from a racecourse is not a fast exit.

No road closures have been published for the event. If any temporary order appears, it will show up on our Hereford roadworks and travel page, which already tracks the autumn programme on the A465 and Gaol Street.

The day after, and the rest of the county

The racecourse has an Antiques Fair on Sunday 8 November 2026, the morning after the fireworks, and Remembrance Sunday also falls on 8 November 2026. If you are travelling in on the Sunday, allow for both.

Everywhere else in Herefordshire, we could not find a single 2026 display date published by the organiser. As at 5 September we checked Herefordshire Council’s events list, which runs to December 2026 and contains nothing firework-shaped; Leominster Town Council, whose events page simply redirects to Leominster Information Centre; and the Leominster Information Centre calendar itself, which lists events through to March 2027 with no bonfire night entry. Ross-on-Wye Lions have run a display in past years, but rossonwyelions.org.uk does not resolve at all, so there is nothing first-party to point at.

That is a gap in publishing, not a statement that those events are cancelled. We will re-check in the first week of October, which is when most Herefordshire organisers put their dates up.

Sources

• St Michael’s Hospice, Hereford Fireworks, read 5 September 2026
• Hereford Racecourse, Fireworks, read 5 September 2026
• Hereford Racecourse, What’s On, read 5 September 2026
• Herefordshire Council, Events, read 5 September 2026
• Leominster Information Centre, Local events, read 5 September 2026