Short answer: Armistice Day is <strong>Wednesday 11 November 2026</strong>, and the silence falls at 11am. Far fewer Devon towns hold a formal service on the 11th than on Remembrance Sunday. Exeter Cathedral begins at 10.45am, Torquay Town Hall and Paignton War Memorial at 11am, and Churston at 10.55am. Everywhere else, the silence is kept where people happen to be standing.
These are the services that organisers had published when this page was checked on 8 November 2026.
Exeter Cathedral, from 10.45am. An Armistice Day service with the two-minute silence and prayers. No booking is required and everyone is welcome. This is the same cathedral that holds the Devon County Service on Remembrance Sunday, and the wreaths from that service are laid at the War Memorial on Cathedral Green.
Torquay Town Hall, 11am. An Armistice service and two minutes’ silence, led by the Torquay branch of the Royal British Legion.
St Marychurch War Memorial, Fore Street, 11am. A second Armistice service in the same town, if the Town Hall is not the convenient one for you.
War Memorial, St Mark’s Road, 1pm. A memorial service in the early afternoon, which is the one to know about if you cannot get away at 11.
Central Church, Tor Hill Road, 7.30pm. A Festival of Remembrance in the evening — a concert and act of remembrance rather than a wreath-laying.
Paignton War Memorial, 11am. A short service and the two minutes’ silence.
Churston War Memorial, 10.55am. Timed so the silence falls at 11.
Plymouth holds Devon’s largest Remembrance Sunday service, at the Royal Navy Memorial on the Hoe, and it had published nothing for Armistice Day itself when this page was checked. That is worth saying plainly rather than leaving you to search: if you are in Plymouth on Wednesday, the silence is observed across the city at 11am, but there is no advertised civic ceremony to attend. The Hoe service was the occasion.
Most Devon towns do not hold a parade on the 11th. The silence is kept in shops, schools, offices and at the war memorial by whoever turns up, usually without anything formal being organised. If you want to mark it somewhere that means something, the town war memorial at about five to eleven is the answer in almost every town in the county, and you will rarely be the only person there.
Several towns were still showing last year’s arrangements when this page was written, with no 2026 notice published. We have left those out rather than repeat a 2025 time as though it were this year’s. If your town council posts something between now and Wednesday, that notice is the one to trust over anything here.
The silence is two minutes, at 11am, marking the hour the guns stopped on the Western Front in 1918. Services on the day are short — most are over inside fifteen minutes.
Services go ahead whatever the weather and most of the standing is outdoors, so dress for it. Town centre parking around a memorial fills from about half ten; if you are driving through rather than attending, go early or go round.
The Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal runs through the period, and collectors are usually at the supermarkets and in the town centres all week.
Remembrance Sunday was 8 November 2026. If you are looking for what happened, or planning ahead for next year, the Devon Remembrance Sunday guide has the parades and services town by town.