Ho Chi Minh City Events - February 2027
February 2027 is the Tết month. The public holiday runs Thursday 4 to Wednesday 10 February, Tết Day itself is Saturday 6 February, and two lunar days follow it: Vía Thần Tài on 15 February and the year's first full moon, Tết Nguyên Tiêu, on 20 February.
3 dated days on this page. Every date here is fixed by law, by the lunar calendar or by custom, or confirmed by the organiser for 2027.
📅 The dated days
Tết Nguyên Đán Đinh Mùi — Year of the Goat
📅 Public holiday Thu 4 – Wed 10 Feb 2027; Tết Day Sat 6 Feb; Giao thừa Fri 5 Feb
📍 Where: Citywide
The market's biggest trading weeks of the year are the ones before Tết: dried fruit, watermelon, apricot blossom and offering trays. The statutory break is 4–10 February and the market sets its own Tết hours on a separate notice — check the gate notices before travelling on the Tết days themselves.
Vía Thần Tài — the God of Wealth's day (10th day of the 1st lunar month)
📅 Mon 15 Feb 2027
📍 Where: Market-wide; the offering stalls
Families and businesses buy gold and make offerings on the tenth day of the first lunar month, praying for luck and prosperity for the year — a custom that fills the city's gold shops from early morning. At the market the day is bought in the worship-goods block, Area III, Ô 3B, alongside the gold-leaf packets and altar goods.
Tết Nguyên Tiêu — the first full moon (Rằm tháng Giêng)
📅 Sat 20 Feb 2027
📍 Where: Market-wide and the city's pagodas
Two weeks after Tết the market re-lays its offering stalls for the year's first full moon — lanterns, incense and vegetarian trays.
🕐 Market hours in February
The market's rulebook sets opening hours of 07:00 to 22:00, with fresh and cooked food stalls opening at 04:00; holidays are by separate notice. (Nội quy chợ, Điều 1.)
On the ground the covered hall trades from about 06:00 and most traders wind down around 18:00 — but not across Tết: the market sets its own Tết hours on a separate notice, so the rulebook clock is not the answer for 4–10 February.
Entry is free — the rulebook charges nothing to walk around the hall (Nội quy chợ, Điều 4.3). Our opening hours guide explains what each window measures and why the rulebook clock and the observed day are not the same thing.
🛍️ Where in the market
The pre-Tết buying is spread across the hall: confectionery, tea, coffee and dried goods in Ô 3A, the worship goods — joss paper, incense lamps, bronze ware — in Ô 3B, fruit, vegetables and staples in Ô 3C to Ô 3F and again in Ô 4E and Ô 4F, and the fruit and flower trade on the Lê Thánh Tôn frontage at the north side of the building.
The operator counts nearly 1,400 trading households across the four areas. Stall numbers run as high as 1,392, and every stall holder is required to display a number board, so the numbers above the stalls are the market's own numbering.