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Hong Kong Festivals 2008
New Years Day 1 Jan
Chinese New Year 7 Feb
The 2nd day of the Chinese Lunar New Year 8 Feb
The third day of the Lunar New Year 9 Feb
Spring Lantern Festival 21 Feb
Chinese Groundhog Day 5 Mar
Good Friday 21 Mar
The day following Good Friday 22 Mar
Easter Monday 24 Mar
Kwun Yum's Birthday 26 Mar
Ching Ming 4 Apr
Birthday of Tin Hau 28 Apr
May day / Labour Day 1 May
Buddha’s Birthday and Cheung Chau Bun Festival 12 May
Tuen Ng /  Dragon Boat Festival 8 June
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day 1 July
The day following Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day 2 July
Kwan Tai / Kwan Gon's Birthday  
Seventh Goddess' Day / Tsat-je 7 Aug
Chinese Ghosts Festival / Yue Laan 15 Aug
Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival / Moon Festival 14 Sep
The day following Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival 19 Sep
Confucius' Birthday 26 Sep
National Day 1 Oct
Chung Yeung Festival 7 Oct
Christmas Day 25 Dec
Boxing Day 26 Dec

   

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Festivals and Public Holidays in Hong Kong

This is a list of holidays in Hong Kong.  All government offices and banks close on public holidays.  Beware of the Chinese New Year because most shops and restaurants close for a few days or a week. (Please refer to Chinese New Year page for more detail) 

Besides Chinese New Year, Mid Autumn Festival, Cheung Chau Bun Festival and Dragon Boat Festival are the ones with more characteristics.  Try the moon cakes and walk around with a candle lit lantern on Mid Autumn Festival day.  If SARS doesn't come back in 2004, international dragon boat races will be resumed.  Cheung Chau Bun Festival is celebrated locally on Cheung Chau, a small outlying island of HK.  Marvelous procession attracts tens of thousands locals and tourists each year to this fishing village.

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