How Many Days Until Lantern Festival 2027?

When is Lantern Festival 2027?

Lantern Festival 2027 is on Saturday, February 20, 2027. The date changes from year to year, so the dates below come from published calendars and, after the last published year, from the same calendar rule. Next year's is on Wednesday, February 9, 2028. Other names for it: Yuanxiao Festival and Shangyuan Festival. The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar (China time, UTC+8). It is the first full moon of the year, and it closes the Lunar New Year celebrations. People hang and carry lanterns, guess riddles written on them, and eat tangyuan, sweet rice dumplings served in soup. In Taiwan, crowds release sky lanterns at Pingxi. It isn't a public holiday in mainland China, so most people are back at work.

Date rule: Hong Kong Observatory Gregorian-Lunar calendar conversion tables, 2026-2035.

How many business days until Lantern Festival?

Without weekends, Lantern Festival is 90 weekdays away, Monday to Friday from tomorrow through Saturday, February 20. Take out the 6 federal holidays on the way, Veterans Day through Washington's Birthday, and the US count is 84 business days. Each country drops its own public holidays, so the UK gets 87, Canada 86 and Australia 86.

Regional holidays (US states, Scotland, Canadian provinces, Australian states) are not included. Count with your own holidays.

Countdown milestones to Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival countdown reaches 100 days on Thursday, November 12, 2026 and gets down to 1 day on Friday, February 19, 2027.

Days until Lantern Festival from other dates

Start the count later and the number shrinks. A week from today, on Fri, Oct 23, there will be 120 days to go until Lantern Festival (Feb 20).

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How this is calculated

Each midnight takes one off the number. Today is left out and the day itself is counted, so tomorrow shows as 1 day away. Clock changes for daylight saving make no difference.

In Excel or Google Sheets, type =DATE(2027,2,20)-TODAY() into a cell to get the same count; add 1 to include today.

Counted from Friday, October 16, 2026 (US Eastern time). When you open the page, it counts again from the date on your device, so it matches your own day.

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