Hanoi's preparations for Tet-related activities will be rolled out early, starting no later than December 20, 2025 and continuing through the end of the Lunar New Year holiday.
The city aims to fully implement the directions of General Secretary To Lam and the Party Central Committee, affirming that social welfare and care for people with meritorious service, policy beneficiary families, and disadvantaged groups are a political responsibility, ensuring that all residents share in development outcomes and no one is left behind.
At the same time, Hanoi will step up the organization of distinctive, internationally scaled cultural and artistic activities and annual signature events to promote the capital’s image, culture, people and iconic products. Recreational and entertainment programs will also be expanded to stimulate tourism, trade and services while better meeting residents’ material and spiritual needs.
Ahead of the 2026 New Year and the Lunar New Year of the Horse, the city will focus on social welfare activities, including gift-giving for policy beneficiaries, people with meritorious service, pensioners, social allowance recipients, poor and near-poor households, social protection beneficiaries, older persons and workers facing special hardship.
Visits and Tet greetings will also be extended to revolutionary veterans, Vietnamese heroic mothers, wounded and sick soldiers, martyrs' families, intellectuals, artists, reputable figures in ethnic minority communities, prominent religious dignitaries, armed forces units and exemplary individuals at the ward and commune level.
Cultural, artistic, trade promotion and tourism promotion activities will be intensified through festive decorations and public communications for the 2026 New Year, the 14th National Party Congress and the Lunar New Year of the Horse.
The Department of Culture and Sports will guide and coordinate with ward and commune authorities to organize 30 cultural and artistic events and 45 film screenings in suburban and remote areas.
Historical and cultural sites will remain open throughout the Tet holiday to welcome residents and visitors, creating a joyful and uplifting atmosphere.
Meanwhile, new cultural products will be rolled out to diversify spaces for cultural enjoyment, historical learning and traditional education for younger generations, reinforcing Hanoi’s image as a civilized, modern and welcoming capital with a thousand-year heritage at landmark sites such as the Temple of Literature, Ngoc Son Temple and the Hoa Lo Prison Relic.
Fireworks displays will be organized for the New Year from 11:45 p.m. to midnight on January 1, 2026 and at midnight on February 17, 2026, which is Lunar New Year's Eve.
A series of shopping stimulus, trade promotion and tourism promotion events will also be held, including the Hanoi Night Tourism Promotion Program 2025 themed "Hanoi dep sound," scheduled for December 19 to 21, 2025 at Hanoi Book Street.
Other highlights include the "Get on Hanoi 2026" New Year tourism program in early January, the Happy Tet 2026 program from February 6 to 10, 2026 at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel and the launch of multiple heritage, community and rural tourism products across Nam Thang Long, Ba Vi, Phuc Tho and western Hanoi.
Trade promotion activities for the 2026 New Year will begin on December 23, 2025, with a focus on boosting the consumption of Hanoi’s signature branded products, particularly OCOP items and traditional craft village specialties, while ensuring product traceability and food safety.
In coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hanoi will participate in the "Xuan Que Huong 2026" program for overseas Vietnamese, with city leaders attending activities chaired by the State President and his First Lady on February 8, 2026.
These include an incense-offering ceremony at Kinh Thien Palace, Tet greetings to overseas Vietnamese and an art exchange program broadcast live nationwide, with around 1,000 overseas Vietnamese expected to attend.
During the Lunar New Year holiday, authorities will ensure round-the-clock readiness of forces to maintain political security, public order and safety, prevent fires and explosions, ensure traffic safety, safeguard infrastructure operations and keep essential services running without disruption.
After Tet, the city will submit a rapid summary report on the holiday situation and organize leadership participation in early spring activities, including commemorations of the Ngoc Hoi–Dong Da victory, the Hai Ba Trung uprising, major traditional festivals and activities at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel, the Spring Tree Planting Festival and visits to encourage production at agencies, enterprises and key projects.