Lantau Island Events - October 2027
October 2027 has a public holiday on the 8th, and a monastery service that carries the holiday's name but does not start until the 12th. The month's third date is a birthday at a temple that is the only one of its kind in Hong Kong.
📅 Holiday Events
Chung Yeung — 8 October
📅 Friday, October 8, 2027 (lunar 九月初九) · the general holiday
Chung Yeung is the day Hong Kong climbs; on Lantau that means Lantau Peak from Pak Kung Au and the Wisdom Path ridge. The monastery's own 重陽 service is later in the month — it runs 12–18 October.
The gazette puts Chung Yeung on Friday 8 October 2027, and the observatory's table puts lunar 九月初九 on the same day, so the holiday and the conversion agree and this date needs no caveat. The service that shares the name is a separate outing: Po Lin's 重陽 service starts on the 12th, four days after the holiday.
📍 Location: Lantau Peak and the Wisdom Path ridge, Ngong Ping — the climb starts at Pak Kung Au, on the Lantau Trail
🏷️ Categories: Holiday
🌐 More Information: Hong Kong 2027 public holidays
📅 Religious Events
觀音誕重陽大悲法會 — Guanyin and Chung Yeung service
📅 Tuesday, October 12 – Monday, October 18, 2027 (lunar 九月十三至十九) · seven dates inclusive
Guanyin's autumn service, four days after the Chung Yeung holiday — seven days when the monastery is full of families who have come up the hill for both the graves and the goddess.
Po Lin prints the lunar rule — 九月十三至十九 — with its own 2026 Gregorian column beside it, and its English page files the service under the Chung Yeung Festival. The 2027 conversion puts the run at 12–18 October. In 2026 the same service ran 22–28 October against a holiday on the 18th, so the gap behind the holiday is the service's habit rather than a 2027 accident: the 重陽 in its name is a label, not a date bracket.
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
🏮 Traditional Events
大澳華光誕 — the opera patron's birthday
📅 Wednesday, October 27, 2027 (lunar 九月廿八)
A festival that has almost stopped: the opera patron's temple at 橫坑村 is a walk from Tai O past the salt pans, and on his birthday a handful of parishioners still turn up — go for the walk and the 1896 building, not for a crowd.
The temple at 橫坑村 is the only one in Hong Kong dedicated to 華光, the opera patron: built in 1896, rebuilt in 1973 and graded Grade II in 2023. The record describes the incense as thinning year on year.
Date fixed by lunar calendar; 2027 programme to be confirmed.
📍 Location: Tai O — 華光古廟 at 橫坑村, a walk past the salt pans
🏷️ Categories: Traditional
🌐 More Information: 陳天權: 大嶼山北岸的廟宇與節慶
November has no date on this calendar yet: TransLantau by UTMB listed only its 2026 race dates when this was written. The next fixed date in the year is Po Lin's Water and Land ritual for the Tian Tan Buddha's anniversary, from 9 to 16 December.
Sources
- 寶蓮禪寺: 法會時間表 — 觀音誕重陽大悲法會, "農曆 九月十三至十九日", with the monastery's own 2026 column beside it, "公曆 2026年10月22日至10月28日"; the service is one of seven the page prints with both columns.
- Po Lin Monastery: timetable (English) — names the same service as running "during the Chung Yeung Festival 22 Oct 2026 - 28 Oct 2026", which is how the four-day gap behind the holiday reads on the organiser's own page.
- GovHK: general holidays in 2027 — "Chung Yeung 8 October".
- Hong Kong Observatory: Gregorian-Lunar Calendar Conversion Table of 2027 — 2027/10/8 is the 9th day of the 9th lunar month; 2027/10/12 is the 13th; 2027/10/18 is the 19th; 2027/10/27 is the 28th.
- 陳天權: 大嶼山北岸的廟宇與節慶 — "九月二十八日大澳華光古廟的華光誕"; "華光古廟始建於光緒二十二年（1896年），全港獨一無二"; "香火日漸寥落".
- 蓮花日報, 14 November 2025 — records the temple built in 1896, "全港唯一供奉華光先師的古廟", and the 2023 Grade II listing. No organiser publishes this festival: there is no 值理會 page, no 華光古廟 page and no rural-committee notice, which is why the date rests on these two publishers and the observatory's table.