Lantern Festival Christchurch 2025. The 2025 lunar new year day falls on 10 february. Get a taste of chinese culture and celebrate the year of the dragon at christchurch’s happy chinese new year festival this weekend.

Large crowds left some disappointed with the chinese lantern festival’s first night back in central christchurch after more than 40,000 people turned up. The chinese new year is heralded in every year in christchurch with the annual lantern festival.