Festival calendar
Tet moves. Hue has its own festival page for the current run. Other lunar dates are Check on arrival.
Photo: Lưu Ly · Public domain
Tet
The family week. Tickets sell out.
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Hue Festival
The current run is on the festival page.
Photo: Lưu Ly · Public domain
Tet and Mid-Autumn
Tet is Lunar New Year. Families go home. The public holiday is shorter than the days people are actually travelling. Bánh chưng is the northern cake. The date: Check on arrival. Read Tet.
Mid-Autumn is the full-moon night of the eighth lunar month. Children carry lanterns, lion dancers practise in the street, and mooncakes go on sale in the weeks before. The date: Check on arrival.
Hue and the rest
Hue Festival is the city’s own programme. The year on the Hue Festival page is the one to use. A show can be ticketed. Search tours and attractions. The ordinary citadel ticket is separate. Later years: Check on arrival.
Lim, east of Hanoi in Bac Ninh, is a quan họ gathering on a day in the first lunar month. The day: Check on arrival. Other named holidays move the same way. Do not copy a date from an old article.
Questions
- When is Tet?
Check the date on arrival. It moves. Do not use a past year’s calendar.
- When is Mid-Autumn?
The full moon of the eighth lunar month. The civil date is Check on arrival.