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Lunar New Year 2027 and 2028

Lunar New Year is the most spectacular holiday of Hong Kong’s year and celebrates the start of the new year according to the Chinese calendar. It is also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, and the date of this holiday changes each year but falls in January or February according the western calendar.

In 2027, Lunar New Year falls on Saturday 6 February. The holiday will be on Wednesday 26 January in 2028.

Year	Date	Day	Holiday
2027	6 Feb	Sat	Lunar New Year
	7 Feb	Sun	The Second Day of Lunar New Year
	8 Feb	Mon	The Third Day of Lunar New Year
	9 Feb	Tue	The Fourth Day of Lunar New Year
2028	26 Jan	Wed	Lunar New Year
	27 Jan	Thu	The Second Day of Lunar New Year
	28 Jan	Fri	The Third Day of Lunar New Year
Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates.

Lunar New Year in Hong Kong runs officially for three days, and even four if the holiday coincides with a Sunday. Unofficially, it is celebrated for up to two weeks.

Chinese communities around the world, and particularly in Hong Kong, come alive with colour, fragrance, music and celebrations over the holiday. It is a time for massive festivities, temple rituals, fortune telling, family gatherings and the exchanging of gifts.

In the evening on Victoria Harbour, the sky, water and city lights up with nearly half-an-hour of over twenty thousand fireworks that colour the land that invented them. The harbour front at Tsim Sha Tsui is vibrant with the International Chinese New Year Night Parade with Chinese and international performers exciting the atmosphere of Hong Kong.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, a member of the Hong Kong government attends the Che Kung Temple at Sha Tin where Hong Kong’s luck for the year is foretold in the form of ancient Chinese poetry. Every year around 100,000 worshippers come to Che Kung to beat the drum for good luck and to worship.

Souvenir and shopping markets highlight every part of Hong Kong with flower markets everywhere that sell more than orchids and other flowers. Along with orange and hong bao trees, people buy kumquat bonsai trees in the hope these will bring prosperity over the rest of the year.

For more good luck, there is a Wishing Tree at Lam Tsuen. Those wanting to make a wish tie a note to a piece of string that is tied to an orange then throw it high into the tree. The higher it holds in the tree, the better the chance that the wish will come true.

Previous Years

Year	Date	Day	Holiday
2026	17 Feb	Tue	Lunar New Year
	18 Feb	Wed	The Second Day of Lunar New Year
	19 Feb	Thu	The Third Day of Lunar New Year
2025	29 Jan	Wed	Lunar New Year
	30 Jan	Thu	The Second Day of Lunar New Year
	31 Jan	Fri	The Third Day of Lunar New Year