Nov 28, 2025 | 2:03 pm
The Texas Capital is resting easy at the top of Santa’s nice list for the fourth year in a row: Austin has once again topped Thumbtack’s annual ranking of the most festive American cities in 2025.
Home services platform Thumbtack analyzed holiday light installation requests from customers from October 2024 to 2025 to determine the most festive U.S. cities. Rankings were based on the “relative frequency” of requests after being adjusted for the population of each state and metro area.
Austin first scored the title as America’s most festive city in 2022, and has held the top spot ever since…