Lantau Island Events - February 2027
February is when the island's year starts. The Lunar New Year holidays fall on the 6th, 8th and 9th; Tai O's opera season opens on the 23rd with four nights for the Earth God; the monastery's retreat begins on the 27th. The holidays are fixed by law. The other two are fixed by the lunar calendar, and their 2027 programmes are still to be confirmed.
📅 Holiday Events
Lunar New Year on the plateau — 6, 8 and 9 February
📅 Saturday, February 6; Monday, February 8; Tuesday, February 9, 2027 — the three general holidays
Lunar New Year's Day is 6 February 2027, and the general holidays are the 6th, 8th and 9th: the second day falls on a Sunday this year, so the gazette substitutes the fourth day for it. The monastery keeps its usual 9 AM to 6 PM day throughout, and 7 February — the gap between the holiday days — is the day to come up.
📍 Location: Po Lin Monastery and Ngong Ping Village
🏷️ Categories: Holiday
🌐 More Information: Hong Kong 2027 public holidays
🏮 Traditional Events
大澳福德誕神功戲 — Cantonese opera for the Earth God
📅 Tuesday, February 23 – Friday, February 26, 2027 (lunar 正月十八至廿一) · 正誕 Thursday, February 25
Seven performances of Cantonese opera for the Earth God over four nights; the 2027 programme is still to be confirmed. The Cantonese opera guild, 八和會館, has booked this same window, 正月十八至廿一, in both 2025 and 2026, which is why the dates can be given at all. Four nights of opera in a bamboo theatre booked by the 值理會 of the Earth God's temple: the only week of the year when Tai O after dark is busier than Tai O at noon.
Date fixed by lunar calendar; 2027 programme to be confirmed.
📍 Location: Tai O
🏷️ Categories: Traditional
🌐 More Information: 八和會館 神功戲 booking register
📅 Religious Events
禪七法會 — the Chan retreat at Po Lin Monastery
📅 Saturday, February 27 – Saturday, March 6, 2027 (lunar 正月廿二至廿九)
The monastery's 禪七 runs from 27 February to 6 March, the window Po Lin prints as lunar 正月廿二至廿九 with its own Gregorian column beside it. The timetable gives the dates and nothing further: no hours, and no statement about who may attend. Po Lin's own sitting, the one week when the monastery is a working monastery rather than a visitor attraction, and the plateau is quiet at six in the morning.
Date fixed by lunar calendar; 2027 programme to be confirmed.
📍 Location: Po Lin Monastery, Ngong Ping plateau
🏷️ Categories: Religious
🌐 More Information: Po Lin Monastery timetable