Discover 40+ Fall date ideas
We have gathered fall date ideas for those that want to experience some romantic and enjoyable fall dates together with their partner. The temperature has cooled down and the nights come faster, so it is time to cosy up together. Fall brings so many beautiful colours, so you can also enjoy a date in the outdoors, by going on a hike, camping or just taking a stroll around the park. For those of you who start getting cosy already from September, we also collected some at-home fall date ideas, so you can watch a romantic movie together or carve some pumpkins. Enjoy the lists and have fun on your fall dates!
Interactive Science Museum
Visit an interactive science museum and explore the exhibits. Entry fees are usually around $15-$25 per person.
Local Theater Production
Attend a local theater production or community play. Tickets are typically around $10-$20 per person.
Scenic Train Ride
Take a scenic train ride through picturesque landscapes. Ticket prices vary, typically around $20-$50 per person.
Ropes Course
Challenge yourselves on an outdoor ropes course. This adventurous date costs around $40-$70 per person.
Volunteer at an Animal Shelter
Spend a day volunteering at an animal shelter, helping with tasks like walking dogs or cleaning enclosures. This meaningful date is typically free.
Potluck Dinner Party
Host a potluck dinner with friends, each bringing a dish from a different country. This social and culinary date is inexpensive, depending on what you decide to cook.
Bird Watching
Head to a nature reserve with binoculars and a bird guidebook. This relaxing and educational date is typically free.
Visit a Cat Café
Enjoy some furry company while sipping coffee at a cat café. This cute and cozy date costs around $10-$15 per person for an hour of cat time, plus any food or drinks. It’s a perfect date for animal lovers.
Ghost Tour
Explore the spooky side of your city with a ghost tour. This intriguing and slightly eerie date costs about $20-$30 per person. Choose a historic area with rich, ghostly legends for the best experience.
DIY Wine Tasting
Visit a local winery or wine shop and pick up a selection of inexpensive wines to taste at home. Pair them with a variety of cheeses, fruits, and chocolates for a budget-friendly tasting experience. Get a DIY winemaking kit online for about 60$
DIY Spa Night
Transform your home into a spa retreat with homemade face masks, DIY massages, and soothing music. Pamper each other and unwind without the hefty spa price tag.
Mystery Ingredient Cooking Challenge
Pick out a few mystery ingredients from your pantry or local grocery store, and challenge each other to come up with a delicious dish using only those ingredients. Get creative and see what culinary masterpieces you can whip up together!
Bookstore Adventure
Choose books for each other blindfolded, relying only on touch and intuition. Then, reveal your choices and see if they match your partner's tastes.
Musical Mad Libs
Create absurd and funny lyrics for songs during your jam session, or even compose a whimsical song together.
Comedy Theater Night
Attend a comedy show at a local theater for a night filled with laughter and artistic expression through humor.
Geological Adventure
Collect interesting rocks and minerals or go fossil hunting at a local nature reserve.
Museum Mystery
Visit a museum and create a fictional backstory for one of the artworks or exhibits, then share your stories with each other.
Plant a graden/herb/plant
If you don't have a garden find a pot and plant a nice plant or herb into it. It will be such a nice reminder to look back to when you planted something together the first time. You can even plant a small tree in the park and get back to it once years go by
Make an at-home photoshoot
Find some inspiration on Instagram or Pinterest and create a collage of you two together in fun and cute positions together.
Create an at-home video
Find a topic/style you both like and create your at-home video. Maybe a cooking video of your favourite recipe or a maybe a cute footage of you to together
Listen to a podcast together
Create some topics you are both interested in, draw from the options and listen to a podcast together. It can be jokes, how-to's, skincare routines or maybe a podcast about your favourite series
Build a Lego together
Get a complex lego piece and build it up together from scratch
Do a pub crawl
Try out some underground bars or hidden pubs and find their most interesting tap beer or cider.
Recreate your first date
Try to reenact your first date together. Let's see which of you remembers all the tiny details.
Have a picnic
Make it fancy! Get wine glasses/juice and fancy cutlery. Get something sweet, get something salty and most importantly - find the perfect picnic spot!
Go bookstore hunting
Name the genre of book you like to the other person. Based on your answers you should pick some books for each other!
Try a new recipe
Open up a good old cookbok and pick a random page. The page you selected will be your dish for the date.
Have a campfire night
Get some pillows, blankets, smores and play some guitar covers in the background. Coziness guarenteed!
Read to each other
Pick a book with some spicy parts. Start reading to each out and let yourselves live in the moment. Choose books from Ana Huang, Sarah J. Mass or Hannah Grace.
Have a baking contest
Pick a dessert you both have to prepare. Taste them blindfolded - and try to be objective with your feedback
Try wine & cheese tasting
Buy some different types of cheeses and wines. Mix and match - and dont' forget to look all serious. You can also do blindfold tasting!
Go get ice cream
Go for at least an hour walk and find the most delicisously looking ice-cream. Simple yet amazing!
Attend a gokart race
Adrenaline, bets, laughs - what else do you need? Winner buys the popcorn after! Gokarting goes for about 50-100$/hour
People watch from a cafe
Find one of those cafes that the option to look at people walking by. Discuss who they can be and where they are headed.
Visit a shelter
Find a shelter close to you that allows brining dogs for a walk or playing with them. Prepare for a cuteness overload! Most shelters are happy to have volunteers and will allow you to play with the animals. Make sure to go at a time when they are open.
Build a bird-feeder
It will be fun to create something together. You can go with a simple feeder from a soda bottle, or go all in and try some complex woodworking techniques!
Play video games
Get your Xbox fired up, or an old PC game you haven't played in ages. Don't forget the snacks! There are plenty of games free online, or you can download games from Steam
Highligt moments
Make a Top 5 moments board based on your favorite memories that happened in the past year together. Either write them down and pin it on a board or save it digitally.
Test hot cocoas
Find at least 3 different hot-cocoa making recipe. Try all of them out and rank them from best to worst! Hot cocoa is super easy to do, as you only need simple ingredients like cocoa and sugar as well as milk. All of the ingredients can be found in a supermarket.
Quiz each other
How well do you know your partner? Find out with some quiz questions you set up about yourselves! You can also download the Trivia Games app, or the Trivia Star app. If you have time and creativity, you can even make up your own questions.
Have a tea-time afternoon
Make a cozy afternoon tea date with biscuits and enjoy each other company. Perfect for a rainy day! Go for some romantic tea types like fruits, chocolate flavoured tea or orange tea.
Attend a comedy show
Try to find a comedy show near you, it can be an open-mic kinda thing or some famous comedian. You choose! You can visit a famous comedian for about 150$ or an up-and-coming entertainer for 30-50$
Take an exercise class
Attend and exercise class together. Write down all options for classes and pick out the winner from the bowl. Exercise classes go from free up to 60$. You can find them on Facebook events, or just check out some gyms around you, maybe your membership already allows it.
