Douliu Lantern Festival 2027
Douliu lights Taiping Old Street and Pongsu Forest Park with thousands of lanterns for its own Lantern Festival season.
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Spring is Taiwan's flower season: cherry blossom at Yangmingshan, Wuling Farm and Alishan, azaleas in Taipei, tung blossom in the Hakka hills, and the Mazu pilgrimage season walking the west coast as the weather warms.
Douliu lights Taiping Old Street and Pongsu Forest Park with thousands of lanterns for its own Lantern Festival season.
Hsinchu's Lunar New Year lantern season, with a main lantern and themed light sets around Dongmen City Gate, the moat and Hsinchu Park, lit each evening.
Taiwan's longest public break of the year: seven days off for Lunar New Year, 4 to 10 February 2027.
Yilan's county Lunar New Year's Eve party, a late night concert at Zhongxing Cultural and Creative Park.
Taipei's blossom season on Yangming Mountain, expected early February to mid March 2027.
Kaohsiung's winter carnival fills Love River Bay with giant character inflatables, light shows and a harbor fun park.
Lunar New Year's Day falls on Saturday 6 February 2027, the first day of the Year of the Goat.
Twenty Japanese craft artists, from a Living National Treasure to young makers, reinterpret Pokémon through traditional crafts such as ceramics, metalwork, textiles and lacquer.
Sanxia's Lunar New Year temple festival for Qingshui Zushi's birthday, with its famous sacred pig contest, expected on 11 February 2027.
Sloping flower fields shaped like a crested serpent eagle in Beitou, expected from mid February to mid March 2027.
Attack on Titan: Beyond the Walls World Tour brings the anime's score to the National Taichung Theater Grand Theater for six shows from 12 to 15 February 2027.
Taiwan's most famous high mountain cherry blossom season fills Wuling Farm's valley with pink for about two and a half weeks.
The Beigang Lantern Festival is expected to light the old streets around Chaotian Temple from 13 February to 7 March 2027.
The Thousand Cherry Garden at Fushoushan Farm, Taiwan's highest cherry garden, blooms in waves from mid February into early April.
Taichung's Central Taiwan Lantern Festival is expected at Central Park from 14 February to 7 March 2027.
Miaoli City's Hakka Bombing Dragon series is expected from 14 to 22 February 2027, with dragon teams bombarded by firecrackers through Lantern Festival week.
The first of Pingxi's two mass sky lantern release nights is expected at Pingxi Junior High School on 14 February 2027.
The fourth cherry blossom marathon in Seediq country, Renai Township, Nantou.
Taitung City's Lantern Festival season of blessing lanterns at the seaside park.
Asia's most vibrant book fair, with Czechia as Guest of Honor in 2027 at the Taipei World Trade Center.
The Taoyuan Lantern Festival is expected from 17 February to 7 March 2027 around Hutoushan and the Nankan Creek waterfront.
The Matsu Islands' Baiming night offering festival is expected over the Lantern Festival nights of 18 to 20 February 2027.
New Taipei's lantern festival is expected at New Taipei Metropolitan Park in Sanchong from 19 February to 7 March 2027.
Penghu's Lantern Festival turtle begging rites, the islands' biggest folk celebration of the year.
Yanshui's beehive fireworks storm the streets on Lantern Festival eve and night, expected 19 to 20 February 2027.
Taitung's Bombarding Master Handan ritual, where a bare chested volunteer is pelted with firecrackers, is expected on Lantern Festival day, 20 February 2027.
Lantern Festival, the closing celebration of the New Year season, falls on Saturday 20 February 2027.
The grand finale of the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival is expected at Shifen on Lantern Festival night, Saturday 20 February 2027.
The national Taiwan Lantern Festival comes to Miaoli County from 20 February to 7 March 2027, opening on Lantern Festival night.
The Lizejian sedan chair race at Yong'an Temple, Wujie's Lantern Festival rite.
A 72 km self-challenge ride on Sunday 21 February 2027 climbing the famous 36 bends of County Road 162A from Meishan to the Taiping Sky Bridge in Chiayi County.
Taipei's own lantern festival, expected to light up Ximending and Taipei Expo Park again in late February 2027.
More than 110,000 tulips in the gardens of the former presidential residence in Shilin, expected in late February 2027.
Kaohsiung's citywide spring arts season, expected late February to early July 2027, programme not yet announced.
Zhubei City Office's award winning lantern festival at Shuizhen Forest Park, mixing light art, water mist projection and open call artworks in place of traditional lanterns.
BIGBANG's 20th anniversary COSMOS tour plays two nights at Kaohsiung National Stadium.
Taichung's Emerge Fest, a two day indie music festival on the Aofong Mountain park in Qingshui.
A strawberry season marathon on Romantic Route 3 in Dahu, Miaoli.
A national marathon and family run in Yuanlin, Changhua, for the Tongji Cup.
Peace Memorial Day on 28 February commemorates the 228 Incident, with the official ceremony in Taipei's 228 Peace Memorial Park.
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