Edinburgh Tattoo 2023

Live Stream, TV, Webcam, Dates

Edinburgh Tattoo is one of those events we've experienced first hand, through a combination of growing up in Edinburgh and visiting regularly in the summer months in the years since. It's very much a bucket list experience.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, to give its full official title, takes place each August at the city's iconic castle with live performances each night over several weeks, accompanied by fireworks shows at the weekends which can be seen from miles around!

The tattoo is part of the wider Edinburgh festival that takes over the whole city each summer, bringing in huge crowds of tourists and pushing hotel and accommodation prices sky high. The main attractions of the festival, aside form the tattoo, are the comedy shows and performances of the Edinburgh Fringe that fill the bars and theatres of the city throughout the summer.

Dates

The Tattoo in 2023 will take place from Friday 4th August right through until Saturday 26th August.

Event Details

The performance starts at 9.00pm on weekdays, with 2 shows on a Saturday, an earlier one at 7.30pm followed by the extended fireworks show at 10.30pm.

You can buy tickets for the tattoo here:

Edinburgh tattoo tickets

TV & Streaming

There is some coverage of the Edinburgh Tattoo shown on television each year by the BBC, the schedule of the TV shows can be found here, but as with all BBC programming you can now also watch online:

BBC live stream

There used to be a live webcam feed set up of the stages outside the castle, bringing live streaming of the show each night, but that doesn't seem to have been re-instated. You can always have a look at the official YouTube channel for updates: Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Hotels and Accommodation

Visiting Edinburgh in August is an expensive business as you have the mixed delights of school summer holidays, the Edinburgh Fringe festival and of cours the Tattoo all taking place at the same time. This makes advance booking a necessity.

Some of the more reasonable accommodation options are to be had in student halls of residence, if you don't mind forgoing some of your creature comforts.

You can check availability and make reservations for local hotels here.

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