Hong Kong Events - September 2027
What September 2027 is like in Mong Kok
September is the month the heat starts to lose. The Observatory's 1991–2020 normals give a mean temperature of 27.9 °C and a mean daily maximum of 30.5 °C — still a Hong Kong summer at the top of the day — with rainfall down to 321.4 mm from August's 453.2 mm, and 3.83 days on average under a tropical-cyclone warning signal No. 1 or above.
So September is still a typhoon month, but the rain has dropped by close to a third, and the month really belongs to one night rather than to a holiday: lanterns, mooncakes and the fire dragon. Note the split that catches visitors out — the festival and the public holiday are different days in 2027: Mid-Autumn is Wednesday 15 September, and the general holiday is the day after.
Dates confirmed for September 2027
Mid-Autumn Festival — Wednesday 15 September 2027
Festival night Wednesday 15 September; general holiday Thursday 16 September. Two independent official sources agree on both halves: the eighth lunar month began on 1 September 2027 and its fifteenth day is 15 September, and the Government's gazetted holiday list names Thursday 16 September as the holiday.
Plan around the fifteenth, not the holiday. The market trades straight through the festival, and the mooncake stalls that appear on Tung Choi Street in the weeks before it are the easiest place in Kowloon to try one — festival night is the night to be on the street, and the Thursday holiday is the day after it, when the district is quieter.
Sources: GovHK — General holidays 2027 (holiday 16 September) · Hong Kong Observatory — Gregorian–Lunar conversion table 2027 (day 15 of the 8th month = 15 September).
Exhibitions opening in September 2027
M+ — Do Ho Suh: Belonging
Month confirmed, day not published. The South Korean artist's first institutional solo show in Greater China opens in the Main Hall Gallery at M+ in September 2027, per M+’s 2027 programme announcement. The works are life-size fabric replicas of the homes he has lived in — which is exactly the argument a city of small flats and constant movement has with itself.
Pair it with the festival: a museum afternoon and a lantern evening is a better September day than either on its own.
Sources: M+ 2027 programme announcement, 30 August 2026 (westk.hk newsroom) and the exhibition page at mplus.org.hk.
Still to be confirmed
The LCSD's Mid-Autumn lantern displays. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department puts on the city's largest free lantern displays around the festival every year, but nothing for 2027 has been published — no dates, no venue — so this page prints neither. Check the LCSD's Community Programmes Office pages from mid-2027.
Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance. The fire dragon is traditionally danced on the nights around the festival, but what the organiser actually did in 2026 is not what it will announce for 2027: no 2027 dates have been published, so none appear here as confirmed and this page does not print a guessed window.
Classes and workshops
Daily tai chi with the resident master — Cordis, Hong Kong
9–10am, poolside on Level 42 at 555 Shanghai Street, a few minutes from the market. Complimentary for in-house hotel guests only, with advance booking on (852) 3552 3510.
Source: cordishotels.com — daily tai chi class.
LCSD district recreation programmes — Yau Tsim Mong
Tai chi and sports courses run year-round through the Leisure and Cultural Services Department's district leisure-services offices, some of them free. Fees are set per programme, so check lcsd.gov.hk for the current list — and the same LCSD pages carry whatever the department publishes for the festival.
Cantonese cooking and pastry courses — Hong Kong New Oriental Culinary Art
Small-group Cantonese and pastry courses, certificate and masterclass formats, at 93 King's Road, North Point — Hong Kong Island, not Mong Kok. The school lists fees in the HK$5,500–6,800 range on its own site.
Source: hknoc.com.hk.
Before you go
Ladies Market trades 12:00–23:00 daily and closes only on the first day of Chinese New Year — so both the festival night and the holiday after it find the market open. For the mooncake half of the trip, start with the street-food guide; for the shopping half, the bargaining guide and opening hours.
How to keep up
This page is checked monthly. The listings that move first are the Hong Kong Tourism Board's festival pages, the LCSD programme list, Time Out Hong Kong, and the organiser's own page wherever one exists. This page was last checked on 26 October 2026.
Confirmed vs expected: the Mid-Autumn festival night (Wednesday 15 September) and the general holiday that follows it (Thursday 16 September) are confirmed by two independent official sources; the LCSD lantern displays and the Tai Hang fire dragon have no published 2027 details at all, and M+’s opening day is confirmed only to the month — so none of those three carries a date here.