Chinese Lantern Festival Christchurch 2024. The chinese new year is heralded in every year in christchurch with the annual lantern festival. Bring along your family and friends to experience chinese culture, with vibrantly coloured lanterns lighting up the central city.

In christchurch, the annual chinese lantern festival will be held in north hagley park on february 18 and 19 from 5pm, giving cantabrians of all ethnicities a chance to revel in. The lantern festival is a chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar chinese calendar.