SeasonMap

Lunar New Year, month by month around the world

The largest annual migration on Earth; closures and full trains.

72 destinations on SeasonMap, ranked within each month by the comfort score — because the point is not only where the season is on, but whether the weather is worth the trip while it is.

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When it is on

Number of destinations with lunar new year on in that month. Windows move a little each year.

Lunar New Year in January

  1. 🇻🇳 Dalat, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Dalat is where southern Vietnam takes its new-year week.92climate
  2. 🇨🇳 Sanya, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)The single most expensive week in Chinese hospitality happens on these beaches.88climate
  3. 🇹🇼 Kaohsiung, TaiwanLunar New Year · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)The city empties of workers and fills with families home from Taipei.87climate
  4. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong KongChinese New Year · 20 Jan – 20 Feb (usually)Three public holidays, a night parade in Tsim Sha Tsui and fireworks over the harbour on the second day.84climate
  5. 🇲🇴 Macau, MacaoChinese New Year · 25 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Lion dances at the temples, a night parade through the peninsula, and the mainland arriving in numbers on its own longer break.83climate
  6. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)A city of migrants, so this is the week it empties instead of filling.83climate
  7. 🇹🇼 Kenting, TaiwanLunar New Year · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Taiwan drives south for the holiday week and the single road through the strip stops moving.82climate
  8. 🇨🇳 Xiamen, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Xiamen is a domestic holiday city and this is its biggest week.81climate
  9. 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, ChinaSpring Festival flower markets · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Eleven street markets across the districts sell peach branches, kumquats and narcissus in the last days before the new year, trading until the small hours of new year's eve.80climate
  10. 🇻🇳 Ninh Binh, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Hanoi empties down here for the holiday week and the homestays around Tam Coc fill with domestic groups.80climate
  11. 🇻🇳 Hanoi, VietnamPeach blossom for Tết · 10 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Branches of pink đào are sold off the back of bicycles and motorbikes across the old quarter in the fortnight before the lunar new year, and families carry whole trees home on a scooter.79climate
  12. 🇨🇳 Dali, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Dali is where a large part of urban China goes for the holiday week.79climate
  13. 🇻🇳 Ha Long, VietnamTet · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Cruise operators run reduced fleets and shore restaurants shut for several days, then the domestic crowd arrives for the temple trips.78climate
  14. 🇻🇳 Mui Ne, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Saigon comes here for the new-year week.78climate
  15. 🇹🇼 Taipei, TaiwanLunar New Year · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Taipei empties as families go south and the city is briefly walkable.77climate
  16. 🇻🇳 Phu Quoc, VietnamTet · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)The island fills with Vietnamese families and the flights from Hanoi and Saigon go at holiday prices, while the small kitchens in Duong Dong shut for several days.77climate
  17. 🇻🇳 Nha Trang, VietnamTet · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Small restaurants shut for several days while the beachfront hotels fill with Vietnamese families.76climate
  18. 🇰🇭 Koh Rong, CambodiaChinese New Year · 20 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)The island is a new-year destination for Chinese families and the bungalows at Koh Touch and Sok San are booked out well ahead.76climate
  19. 🇨🇳 Kunming, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Yunnan is a holiday destination for the rest of China and Kunming is the door into it.75climate
  20. 🇻🇳 Can Tho, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)The delta goes home for a week.75climate
  21. 🇻🇳 Con Dao, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)The island fills with Vietnamese families visiting the martyrs' cemetery at Hang Duong, and the flights from Saigon are taken months ahead.75climate
  22. 🇲🇾 Cameron Highlands, MalaysiaChinese New Year in the hills · 20 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Kuala Lumpur and Singapore drive up for the cool air and the single mountain road cannot take it.74climate
  23. 🇹🇭 Bangkok, ThailandChinese New Year in Yaowarat · 20 Jan – 20 Feb (usually)Chinatown closes Yaowarat Road for two nights of lion dances, shrine queues and food stalls, and half the city's Thai-Chinese families are in it.73climate
  24. 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamTet · 25 Jan – 22 Feb (usually)Half the city goes home to the provinces and the other half shuts for a week.73climate
  25. 🇵🇭 Manila, PhilippinesChinese New Year in Binondo · 20 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)The oldest Chinatown in the world does dragon dances down Ongpin and closes the streets to traffic for the day.73climate

…and 41 more in January.

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Lunar New Year in February

  1. 🇻🇳 Dalat, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Dalat is where southern Vietnam takes its new-year week.96climate
  2. 🇨🇳 Sanya, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)The single most expensive week in Chinese hospitality happens on these beaches.92climate
  3. 🇹🇼 Kaohsiung, TaiwanLunar New Year · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)The city empties of workers and fills with families home from Taipei.90climate
  4. 🇹🇼 Kenting, TaiwanLunar New Year · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Taiwan drives south for the holiday week and the single road through the strip stops moving.88climate
  5. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)A city of migrants, so this is the week it empties instead of filling.87climate
  6. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong KongChinese New Year · 20 Jan – 20 Feb (usually)Three public holidays, a night parade in Tsim Sha Tsui and fireworks over the harbour on the second day.86climate
  7. 🇲🇴 Macau, MacaoChinese New Year · 25 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Lion dances at the temples, a night parade through the peninsula, and the mainland arriving in numbers on its own longer break.85climate
  8. 🇻🇳 Ha Long, VietnamTet · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Cruise operators run reduced fleets and shore restaurants shut for several days, then the domestic crowd arrives for the temple trips.84climate
  9. 🇻🇳 Ninh Binh, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Hanoi empties down here for the holiday week and the homestays around Tam Coc fill with domestic groups.84climate
  10. 🇨🇳 Dali, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Dali is where a large part of urban China goes for the holiday week.84climate
  11. 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, ChinaSpring Festival flower markets · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Eleven street markets across the districts sell peach branches, kumquats and narcissus in the last days before the new year, trading until the small hours of new year's eve.82climate
  12. 🇲🇾 Cameron Highlands, MalaysiaChinese New Year in the hills · 20 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Kuala Lumpur and Singapore drive up for the cool air and the single mountain road cannot take it.82climate
  13. 🇻🇳 Hanoi, VietnamPeach blossom for Tết · 10 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Branches of pink đào are sold off the back of bicycles and motorbikes across the old quarter in the fortnight before the lunar new year, and families carry whole trees home on a scooter.81climate
  14. 🇨🇳 Kunming, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Yunnan is a holiday destination for the rest of China and Kunming is the door into it.81climate
  15. 🇻🇳 Nha Trang, VietnamTet · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Small restaurants shut for several days while the beachfront hotels fill with Vietnamese families.80climate
  16. 🇻🇳 Mui Ne, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Saigon comes here for the new-year week.80climate
  17. 🇻🇳 Con Dao, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)The island fills with Vietnamese families visiting the martyrs' cemetery at Hang Duong, and the flights from Saigon are taken months ahead.80climate
  18. 🇹🇼 Taipei, TaiwanLunar New Year · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Taipei empties as families go south and the city is briefly walkable.79climate
  19. 🇨🇳 Xiamen, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Xiamen is a domestic holiday city and this is its biggest week.79climate
  20. 🇵🇭 Manila, PhilippinesChinese New Year in Binondo · 20 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)The oldest Chinatown in the world does dragon dances down Ongpin and closes the streets to traffic for the day.78climate
  21. 🇻🇳 Quy Nhon, VietnamTết · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)One of the few weeks Quy Nhon fills, mostly with families back from Saigon.78climate
  22. 🇻🇳 Da Nang, VietnamTet · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Restaurants and small shops shut for several days and staff go home to the countryside, while the riverfront fills for the flower street and the fireworks.77climate
  23. 🇻🇳 Hội An, VietnamTet · 25 Jan – 25 Feb (usually)Family businesses in the old town shut for several days and the country travels.77climate
  24. 🇻🇳 Hue, VietnamTet · 15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)The citadel stays open but much of the city shuts for several days, and the royal ritual programme around the Imperial City is the one time the old ceremonies are performed in public.77climate
  25. 🇨🇳 Lijiang, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Cold, bright and full of domestic visitors.77climate

…and 46 more in February.

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Lunar New Year in March

  1. 🇨🇳 Dali, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Dali is where a large part of urban China goes for the holiday week.91climate
  2. 🇨🇳 Kunming, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Yunnan is a holiday destination for the rest of China and Kunming is the door into it.89climate
  3. 🇨🇳 Sanya, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)The single most expensive week in Chinese hospitality happens on these beaches.84climate
  4. 🇨🇳 Xiamen, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)Xiamen is a domestic holiday city and this is its biggest week.83climate
  5. 🇨🇳 Chongqing, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)The city empties as workers go home, half the hotpot rooms shut for a week, then it fills again with returning families and their relatives.81climate
  6. 🇨🇳 Beijing, ChinaSpring Festival travel rush · 25 Jan – 5 Mar (usually)Forty days around the lunar new year and the largest annual movement of people anywhere.77climate
  7. 🇮🇳 Dharamshala, IndiaTibetan New Year (Losar) · 5 Feb – 10 Mar (usually)Three days that matter more in this settlement than in most: monastery dances at the main temple, families in new clothes, and half the Bhagsu cafes shut because their staff are off.76climate
  8. 🇨🇳 Shanghai, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)The one week the city is quiet: migrant workers go home, small restaurants and shops shut for days, and the Bund belongs to visiting families.73climate
  9. 🇯🇵 Nagasaki, JapanNagasaki Lantern Festival · 25 Jan – 5 Mar (usually)Fifteen nights from Lunar New Year, run out of the oldest Chinatown in Japan and spread across the whole centre in about fifteen thousand lanterns.72climate
  10. 🇯🇵 Yokohama, JapanChinatown Lunar New Year · 25 Jan – 5 Mar (usually)The largest Chinatown in Japan runs a fortnight of lion dances, a costumed parade and a lantern-up from new year's eve.70climate
  11. 🇧🇹 Thimphu, BhutanLosar · 1 Feb – 10 Mar (usually)Government offices and most shops close for several days, families go home, and the archery grounds fill from the morning onwards.68climate
  12. 🇨🇳 Shangri-La, ChinaLosar, Tibetan New Year · 1 Feb – 15 Mar (usually)The Tibetan new year at Songzanlin monastery, with masked cham dancing in the courtyards.66climate
  13. 🇮🇳 Gangtok, IndiaLosar · 1 Feb – 10 Mar (usually)The Tibetan new year closes offices and schools across Sikkim for about a week, and the monasteries dance the Chaam in the days before it.64climate
  14. 🇲🇾 Penang, MalaysiaChinese New Year and Chap Goh Meh · 25 Jan – 10 Mar (usually)Two weeks of clan-house open houses and temple queues, ending at Chap Goh Meh when unmarried women throw oranges into the sea at the Esplanade.63climate
  15. 🇨🇳 Lhasa, ChinaLosar · 5 Feb – 10 Mar (usually)The Tibetan new year is a family holiday rather than a spectacle: pilgrims walk the Barkhor before dawn, monasteries hold masked cham dances, and a good share of restaurants and shops close for several days.61climate
  16. 🇮🇳 Darjeeling, IndiaLosar · 5 Feb – 10 Mar (usually)The Tibetan and Sherpa new year is marked at the Ghoom and Bhutia Busty monasteries with masked dances and a week of family visiting.55climate
  17. 🇨🇳 Harbin, ChinaSpring Festival · 25 Jan – 1 Mar (usually)The ice parks are still standing and the whole country wants to see them.55climate
  18. 🇲🇳 Ulaanbaatar, MongoliaTsagaan Sar · 25 Jan – 5 Mar (usually)The lunar new year is three days of visiting elders, buuz by the hundred and dairy-white food.53climate

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Lunar New Year in December

  1. 🇮🇳 Gangtok, IndiaLosoong and Kagyad · 1–31 Dec (usually)The Bhutia harvest new year falls in December, with masked dance at Rumtek and Phodong and archery in the villages.74climate
  2. 🇮🇳 Leh, IndiaLadakhi Losar · 1 Dec – 10 Jan (usually)Ladakh keeps its new year two months before the Tibetan one, with ibex-shaped bread, fire processions through Leh and masked dances at the monasteries.34climate

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