The best Lunar New Year 2025 events in Sydney

Sydney Lunar Festival

With Chinese New Year in Sydney starting from Wednesday, January 29, locals and visitors are set for over two weeks of street parties, art and light installations, lion dances. But there’s also Chinese comedy, orchestral performances, live snake displays and the largest Dragon Boat Festival in the Southern Hemisphere. Lunar New Year is a busy … Read more

Where to see lion dances in Sydney for Lunar New Year 2025

Chinese New Year lion dance performances in Sydney

Looking for the full schedule of Lunar New Year dance performances in Sydney for 2025? You’ve come to the right place. Chinese New Year (otherwise known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival) is upon us with 2025 being the Year of the Snake, according to Chinese astrology. With it, Sydney springs to life with … Read more

Sydney to host biggest Dragon Boat Festival in the Southern Hemisphere

The Dragon Boat Festival in Sydney held to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

With Chinese New Year events locked in for the next 19 days (from Wednesday, January 29), Sydney is celebrating the Year of the Snake with all sorts of street festivals, art installations, lion dances, and what’s being touted as the biggest Dragon Boat Festival in Sydney and the Southern Hemisphere. Scheduled for Friday, February 5 … Read more

How to celebrate Indigenous culture in Sydney this Australia Day

Yabun Festival in Sydney

The largest community led one-day festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in Australia is held in Sydney each year on Australia Day and it has fast become a favourite for both locals and visitors in town. The Yabun Festival was founded in 2001 as an extension of the very first Survival Day events … Read more

Australia Day events: What’s happening in Sydney?

A ferry on Sydney Harbour with the Sydney Opera House in the background.

Australia Day in Sydney is right around the corner and Destination NSW has a number of events planned for Sunday, January 26. In 2025, Australia Day honours the theme of “Reflect, Respect and Celebrate” with tens of thousands of people expected to get involved in the series of free events and activities this year, from … Read more

The best Australia Day cruises in Sydney for 2025

Many different ships on Sydney Harbour with the Sydney Opera House in view.

Looking to take an Australia Day harbour cruise? Sydney Travel Guide has sifted through the many offerings in 2025 to bring you five of the best options. One of the most popular ways to celebrate Australia Day in Sydney is by heading out on the harbour to catch all the action planned throughout the morning … Read more

Sydney’s ultra-rare Corpse Flower, “Putricia,” blooms for the first time in 15 years

A Corpse Flower blooming in Sydney

Over the past 12 months Sydney has benefitted from a bunch of rare astronomical events and super moons, but the sky isn’t exactly exclusive territory for the harbour city. What is exclusive, however, is our world-famous Royal Botanic Garden which is this week witnessing something incredibly rare, exciting and… smelly. The botanical spectacle is the … Read more

New Sydney openings to get excited about in 2025: from bars to musicals

a courtyard with trees

2024 was a banner year for Sydney. Not only did we finally get the futuristic next phase of Sydney Metro and the revival of Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, but we also got an exhaustingly long list of high-profile food and drink openings from Olympus Dining and Neptune’s Grotto to Joji and Letra House. Other big things … Read more