Remembrance Sunday falls on 8 November 2026. The council names its services in late October, so here is the timetable it repeats and what has changed

Remembrance Sunday 2026 falls on Sunday 8 November. Armistice Day, the eleventh of the eleventh, is the Wednesday after, 11 November 2026.

Brighton & Hove City Council has not yet published its list of services for this year. It did not publish last year’s until 30 October 2025, nine days before the event, so late October is when to expect it. What follows is what is already fixed, what changed at the city’s main memorial this summer, and the timetable the council has run in successive years, clearly marked as precedent rather than as this year’s confirmed times.

Everything here was checked on 6 September 2026.

The one thing that has changed for 2026

The Brighton War Memorial on the Old Steine was rededicated on Tuesday 30 June 2026, and the ceremony was not cosmetic.

The council announced the rededication in a release dated 26 June. The service marked the Battle of the Boar’s Head on 30 June 1916, in which “366 men of the South Downs Battalions of The Royal Sussex Regiment” were killed, the day Sussex still calls the day Sussex died. It included the resetting of the Boar’s Head memorial stone and the installation of new flagpoles, both delivered as part of the Valley Gardens regeneration works.

That matters practically. If you have avoided the Old Steine in recent Novembers because of the roadworks, the memorial setting is finished and back in use, and the flags now fly from new poles.

The same release notes that the council holds a Gold award in the Ministry of Defence’s Employer Recognition Scheme for its support of the armed forces community.

What is not confirmed yet

The service times. No 2026 list exists on the council website or on VisitBrighton as of 6 September.

A trap worth flagging. VisitBrighton carries a page headed Remembrance Services that reads as though it is current. It is not. Its dates are 7, 10 and 11 November, which is the 2024 pattern. Do not plan around it.

The timetable the council repeats

This is the schedule the council published for 2025, in its release Marking Remembrance across Brighton & Hove on 30 October 2025. The venues and the running order have held steady for years; only the dates move with the calendar.

The Sunday before, at Rottingdean. Blessing in the Field of Remembrance, 11am, Rottingdean War Memorial on the Village Green. In 2026 that Sunday is 1 November.

The Thursday before, at Brighton. Blessing in the Garden of Remembrance, 10.50am, Brighton War Memorial, Old Steine, arriving by 10.45am. In 2026 that Thursday is 5 November.

Remembrance Sunday itself. Six services across the city, in this order:

Time Where Detail
9am Royal Sussex Regiment Memorial, Regency Square Royal Sussex Regimental Association service, arrive by 8.50am
10.45am Easthill Park, Manor Road, Portslade Parade and service, wreath-laying at 11am, arrive by 10.30am
10.50am Brighton War Memorial, Old Steine City parade and service, wreath-laying and March Past, arrive by 10.30am
11am Hove Cemetery, Old Shoreham Road Wreath ceremonies at both the North and South gates, arrive by 10.50am
11.30am Lower High Street, Rottingdean Parade forms, service at noon at the Village Green memorial
2.30pm Hove War Memorial, Grand Avenue Parade and Civic Memorial Service, then procession to All Saints Church, arrive by 2.20pm

Armistice Day. Three short services with the two minute silence at 11am: Brighton at the Old Steine from 10.50am, Hove at Grand Avenue from 10.55am, and Rottingdean at the Village Green from 10.55am.

Treat all of the above as the shape of the fortnight, not as booked times for 2026. The Old Steine service is the one that draws the crowd, and the 10.30am assembly request is the number to plan around if you want to be near the memorial rather than behind three rows of people.

Getting there, and the parking reality

The Old Steine is a five to ten minute walk from Brighton station down Queen’s Road and along North Street, and every bus that runs through the city centre stops within a couple of minutes of it. Walk or take the bus. The Old Steine is a gyratory with a service happening in the middle of it, the roads immediately around the memorial are the ones that get held, and the nearby car parks fill on a Sunday morning regardless. Our Brighton parking guide has the central tariffs and the park and ride position if you have no alternative.

For Hove, the Grand Avenue memorial sits on the seafront end of the avenue, on the 1, 1A, 5 and 6 bus corridors. For Portslade, Easthill Park is a walk up from Portslade station.

Road closures. No temporary traffic order covering 8 November had been published when we checked. Brighton’s Remembrance closures are short and rolling rather than all-day, and they are usually sealed in the last fortnight. Check the Brighton roadworks and travel page in the days before.

If you are laying a wreath

Wreath-laying at the Old Steine service is organised in advance rather than on the day, and the council’s release each year gives the contact for it. That contact appears with the published list in late October, so this is another reason to watch for it rather than turn up hoping.

Expected next: the council’s 2026 service list, on the basis of the last two years in the final week of October. This page will be updated with the confirmed times when it lands.