The highlight of Hong Kong’s Chinese New Year celebrations — the Lunar New Year Fireworks Display — will be staged over Victoria Harbour at 8pm on January 30, 2025. The show will last 23 minutes, and feature nine scenes and 23,888 pyrotechnic shells. This year, the HSBC main building and the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre will showcase a new LED light show along with the fireworks.

Highlights of the 2025 Chinese New Year fireworks show

Hong Kong’s fireworks shows for Chinese New Year usually take place on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Spectators will be treated to scenes that pay tribute to aspects of Chinese culture and recent Hong Kong events. As a bonus, two prominent buildings on Hong Kong Island — the Convention & Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai and the HSBC building in Central — will project an LED show that will play in tandem with the pyrotechnics display.

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The first scene of the fireworks show will prominently feature the number 8.

The show will kick off with a scene revolving around the lucky red number eight, which represents wishes for prosperity, happiness, and contentment for the city in the Year of the Snake. The highlight will be the eighth scene that will feature six panda heads against a green backdrop symbolising bamboo — a nod to Hong Kong’s panda family at Ocean Park. As part of the spectacle, the sky will also light up with red and silver peonies and red hearts. The finale, called ‘Dance of the Golden Snake’will be accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums.

Where to watch the Lunar New Year fireworks display

The display will be visible from both sides of Victoria Harbour, and authorities say that some of the best free spots in Hong Kong to watch the fireworks show will be Tsim Sha Tsui, Mid-Levels, Central, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, East Coast Park Precinct in Fortress Hill, and Hung Hom Bypass.

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Hong Kong recently had a fireworks display on January 1, 2025, to welcome the new year.

Hong Kong’s most recent pyrotechnics display was on January 1 to usher in the year 2025. This event was also held at Victoria Harbour, was 12 minutes long, had rainbow-coloured smoke with silver pyrotechnics for the first time, and three pre-show ‘Shooting Stars’ displays. Five barges and 16 pontoons were spread across 1.3km on Victoria Harbour to launch the fireworks.

EVENTLunar New Year Fireworks Display
VENUEVictoria Harbour
DATE & TIME8pm, January 30, 2025
WEBSITEwww.discoverhongkong.com
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Image credits: Hong Kong Tourism Board

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From the Middle East to the Far East and a couple of places in between, Anjali has lived in no fewer than seven cities in Asia, and has travelled extensively in the region. She worked as a lifestyle journalist in India before coming to Hong Kong, where her favourite thing to do is island-hopping with her daughter. You can check out her musings on motherhood, courtesy her Instagram profile.