Hong Kong Events in February 2027
February 2027 is Chinese New Year, and almost nothing else. Lunar New Year's Day falls on Saturday 6 February; the Lunar New Year fairs that opened on 31 January run to the early hours of 6 February; the night parade is scheduled for that same evening in Tsim Sha Tsui; the fireworks are on Sunday 7 February over Victoria Harbour; and the Chinese New Year Raceday is at Sha Tin on Monday 8 February. Saturday to Tuesday is a gazetted holiday, so the four days run together. Each row below gives the date, the venue, what it costs, and whether it is worth timing a Peak visit around.
🗓️ February 2027 events, in date order
Lunar New Year Fairs — the closing nights
📅 1 February to the early hours of Saturday 6 February 2027 — the fairs opened on 31 January and run seven days
📍 14 sites across Hong Kong; the largest at Victoria Park, Causeway Bay
🎟️ Tickets: no admission price is published for the fairs, and no public opening or closing hours are published. The seven days end in the early hours of 6 February, not on the evening of the 6th.
These are markets, not a show: the stalls are selling flowers, decorations and food for the new year. The final nights are the ones to plan for if a crowded market is what you want, and the earlier evenings are calmer. Six of the seven nights fall in February, which is why the event is on this page rather than the January one.
🧭 From the Peak: on Hong Kong Island, in Causeway Bay, and a ground-level market — there is nothing to see of it from the Peak. A separate trip, and the one occasion on this page where going late is better than going early.
🌐 More Information: 2027 Chinese New Year fairs, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
International Chinese New Year Night Parade
📅 Saturday 6 February 2027, Lunar New Year's Day. The parade is scheduled for that evening, not confirmed
📍 Tsim Sha Tsui
🎟️ Tickets: nothing is published — no ticket price, no ticketing arrangement and no route. The Tourism Board's tender notice states the date and the district; its sponsorship listing still marks the date as tentative.
A float parade at night, on the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui. Its route and start time are unpublished, so a plan built on it has to stay loose.
🧭 From the Peak: this is a street parade and the Peak cannot show you a parade. If it is the reason for the evening, be in Tsim Sha Tsui; if you would rather have the view, take the Peak that night and treat the parade as something you are missing.
🌐 More Information: Event sponsorship schedule, Hong Kong Tourism Board
Chinese New Year Fireworks Display 2027
📅 Sunday 7 February 2027
📍 Over Victoria Harbour
🎟️ Tickets: none. It is a public display over the harbour: no ticket is sold and no price applies. No firing point, no theme and no start time is published for the 2027 display.
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department confirms the date; the display details come later, and printing last year's time would be wrong.
🧭 From the Peak: this is the event to time a Peak visit around. The Peak is a better seat than the waterfront for a harbour display — you are above the skyline instead of behind it, and you see the whole harbour at once. It is a distant view: the shells are out over the water, so the sound arrives late and what you get is scale. Go up in the afternoon, since the queue for the tram is the slow part, and either come down before the last shell or use the bus rather than the tram.
🌐 More Information: 2027 Chinese New Year Fireworks Display, Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Chinese New Year Raceday
📅 Monday 8 February 2027, Day Race
📍 Sha Tin Racecourse, 6001 Tai Po Road, Sha Tin
🎟️ Tickets: Public Enclosure HK$10. Entry is free for visitors to Hong Kong aged 18 or over holding a valid travel document or passport. The Members' Enclosure is HK$400 rather than the regular HK$300, because the Club lists the Chinese New Year Raceday among its Major Racedays. No first-race time is published for the day; the Club's stated rule is that gates open two hours before the first race.
The third day of Lunar New Year, and one of the Club's Major Racedays.
🧭 From the Peak: a separate trip across the harbour to Sha Tin, and a day event, so it does not compete with an evening on the Peak. The tram and the racecourse are two different journeys — do not try to do both in one afternoon.
🌐 More Information: Sha Tin Racecourse, The Hong Kong Jockey Club
The fourth day, Tuesday 9 February
Lunar New Year's Day is Saturday 6 February 2027. The second day is Sunday 7 February, which is a general holiday because every Sunday is one; the third day is Monday 8 February; and the fourth day, Tuesday 9 February, is the gazetted general holiday in substitution for the second day, which fell on a Sunday. So the four days from Saturday 6 to Tuesday 9 February are all public holidays, which is why the week feels like a four-day holiday rather than a single night out.
Planning February around a Peak visit
If you are choosing one night to be on the Peak, it is Sunday 7 February for the fireworks. That is the only event in the month where the Peak is the better seat rather than a detour from somewhere else, and the sensible shape of the day is to go up in the afternoon, eat up there, and stay until the display ends — then leave the lookout before the crowd does, or come down by bus.
The other three rows all happen at ground level. The fairs are in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay and at 13 other sites; the parade is in Tsim Sha Tsui; the raceday is at Sha Tin. None of them is visible from the Peak, and none of them is improved by going up first.
On the Peak itself, the free HSBC Life Illuminations show is projected onto the Peak Tower every evening at 19:30, 20:30 and 21:30, about ten minutes a session, best seen from Peak Road Garden outside the tower — check it is running on the day, because the operator publishes no season dates. The Peak Tram's hours for the day you are going are on opening hours on the Peak; for the holiday on the hill itself, see Chinese New Year on Victoria Peak.