The lights switch-on has not taken place since 2019 when it was halted due to Covid.
The city’s festive market, said by Karney to be “much bigger and better” this year, returns on Friday 8 November and will be open daily over seven weekends until Sunday 22 December.
It will involve wooden ski chalet-style stalls in nine locations across the city, in addition to the marquees in the Winter Gardens.
Speaking about concerns raised in the past about the cost of some of the products at the Christmas market, the councillor said they were urging stallholders to keep their prices down.
“We try our best and we give that message to all the traders but everything in the world has got expensive, as we all know, but we check on anything that we think is out of the ordinary or outrageous and we do put that message to them,” he said.
“The atmosphere is unbeatable and we don’t charge anything for the atmosphere,” he added.
Manchester has had a Christmas market since 1998, with the council saying it has brought millions of people into the city over the years.
The city’s festivities will also include a Christmas parade, but no date has yet been announced.
