Yau Kung Moon lion dancers interact with the crowd during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Saturday. This year’s Chinese New Year Parade, also known as the Lunar New Year Parade, brought performers and paradegoers together to celebrate the Year of the Dragon. | Source: Juliana Yamada for The Standard Calvin Hom, 74, attends the Chinese New Festival and Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 2024. Hom is a San Francisco native and was born in the SF Chinese Hospital. (Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED) Yau Kung Moon performs during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) In fact, this parade dates back to the 1860s and has become the largest lunar new year parade outside of Asia. California State Senator Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco, was also in the Spectators from across the Bay Area gathered in San Francisco Chinatown to witness the start of the 15-day Lunar New Year celebrations, which featured cultural performances, lion dances, and the Floats for San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade near completion. Attendance is free, but bleacher tickets are available for those seeking a prime viewing spot, priced between $41 and $70. San Francisco’s annual Chinese New Year Parade took place Saturday evening in San Francisco, starting near Second and Market Streets and continuing through the city to Columbus, ending at Chinatown. Crowds celebrating the Lunar New Year filled the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown on Wednesday, honoring the traditions and festivities of the holiday. As San Francisco prepares to welcome its annual Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, to celebrate the Year of the Snake, the people who build the floats for the parade are busy with the finishing Keep reading for our guide to attending one of the biggest celebrations in the Bay Area to mark Lunar New Year 2024. What is the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade route? Saturday’s Chinese New Year parade will begin at Second and Market streets at 5:15 p.m. PT. (Remember, sunset will be just before 6 p.m. that evening.) With an A-list grand marshal—Awkwafina!—sold-out crowds and a brand new dragon, San Francisco is throwing everything in its arsenal at this year’s Chinese New Year Festival and Parade. The largest Lunar New Year parade outside of Asia, the celebration will snake its way through downtown and Chinatown Saturday evening in an event that San The station will produce year-round special coverage, including local programming and news stories that showcase the city’s extraordinary monthlong Lunar New Year celebrations, beginning in 2025 with the welcoming of the auspicious Year of the Snake. Today, the San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade is the largest celebration of The Golden Dragon, near the finish on Kearny, marks the climax of the New Year Parade in 2017. The two-week Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, sponsored by Southwest Airlines in recent years, includes two fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, and concludes with the parade 2025 SF Chinese New Year Parade - Named one of the top ten Parades in the world by the International Festivals & Events Association, the San Francisco's Chinese New Year Parade is one of the few remaining night illuminated Parades in North America and the biggest parade celebrating the lunar new year outside of Asia.Started in the 1860's by the Chinese in San Francisco as a means to educate San Francisco’s 2025 Chinese New Year Flower Market Fair. January 25-26, 2025 – SF (Chinatown) – FREE – Celebrate the Lunar New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown Flower Market Fair for a shopper’s paradise with over 120 booths plus performances of traditional Chinese magicians, acrobats, folk dancers and opera. Angel Perez paints a golden dragon for the Chinese Lunar New Year Parade on Tuesday while inside a warehouse at Pier 54. The annual parade will include 19 floats, with contractor the Parade Guys Thousands flocked to San Francisco’s Chinatown on a balmy February afternoon to celebrate Chinese New Year and welcome the Year of the Dragon. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- After being canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese New Year parade is back in San Francisco. The parade is the largest of its kind outside of Asia. San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade and Festival is one of the most iconic events on the city’s cultural calendar. The festival has been happening since 1851, making it the oldest and largest celebration of its kind outside of Asia. Photo by Aspect Photography, courtesy of CNY Festival & Parade What to know for the Chinese New Year Parade Named one of the top ten Parades in the world by International Festivals & Events Association, the Alaska Airlines Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is one of the few remaining night illuminated Parades in North America and the biggest parade celebrating the Lunar New Year outside of Asia. The San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade The SF Chinese New Year Parade 2025. When: Saturday, Feb 15, 2025.Starts 5:15 pm. Lasts about 2.5 hours. Where: Starts at 2nd and Market, goes down Market to 3rd St, up Geary to Powell, right on Powell for one block, then right on Post down to Kearny, left on Kearny, then along Kearny all the way to Columbus.
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