Tampa Holiday Boat Parade 2025. The holiday lighted boat parade, sponsored by yacht starship and pirate water taxi, will glide down the hillsborough river on saturday, dec. Tampa’s largest lighted boat parade will happen on december 23, 2023, along the hillsborough river in downtown tampa.

Eat seafood and enjoy an arts and crafts. Here’s a list of 13 tampa bay area parades, some of which get underway dec.