Ho Chi Minh City Events Calendar 2026
14 events in Ho Chi Minh City for 2026, November to December; November is the busiest month with 8.
What this calendar is
Fourteen dated entries across November and December 2026. Each one was checked against the organiser's or the city's own page plus a second independent source, and every row carries its sources. Where something is not confirmed — a finish line, an entry price, a start time — the page says so rather than filling the gap.
November 2026 — 8 events
November 2026 is a fortnight of free outdoor spectacle bracketed by two ticketed evenings.
Vibrant HCMC · Shopping Season 2026
Wed 11 – Sun 15 November 2026
Lam Sơn Park, District 1, plus Diamond Plaza, Nowzone, Union Square (B2) and Chi Lăng Park
The city's own year-end retail push: 100+ brands and about 97 promotion packages worth more than 250 billion VND, with the launch evening on 11 November.
QVTHXV — “15 Years of Đường Về” live concert
Saturday 14 November 2026, 20:00–23:00
Capital Theatre, 212 Lý Chính Thắng, Nhiêu Lộc, District 3
Quái Vật Tí Hon play their 2011 album Đường Về in full, all twelve tracks, plus new material, on the fifteenth anniversary.
Ngày hội Đại đoàn kết — “Sắc màu văn hóa Việt”
Wed 18 – Tue 24 November 2026, all day; opening ceremony 19:00 Sunday 22 November
Nguyễn Huệ Walking Street, Sài Gòn ward, District 1
The city-level Great Unity festival on the street it was built for: folk performance, sport demonstrations and heritage craft stalls, free and open-air.
HCMC International Photography Festival
Thu 19 – Tue 24 November 2026
Lê Văn Tám Park (District 1), Book Street (Nguyễn Văn Bình), Đồng Khởi Street, plus the City Photography Association and the Union of Literature & Arts Associations
Outdoor print exhibitions across three central locations, with workshops and contests alongside them — the part of the Culture Day programme you can see in an afternoon on foot.
Art exhibition “TP.HCM – Văn hóa sáng tạo, kiến tạo tương lai”
Fri 20 – Tue 24 November 2026
The Fine Arts Museum, District 1, and the outdoor space of Lam Sơn Park
The curated painting and sculpture show of the same Culture Day cluster — indoor, and a five-minute walk from the photography park.
Vietnam Culture Day — 3D mapping and fireworks
Mapping 21 – 24 November 2026 (evenings); Tuesday 24 November: arts programme from 20:00, fireworks at 21:00
86 Lê Thánh Tôn (People's Committee HQ) and the Rex Hotel; fireworks at Nguyễn Huệ Walking Street, Công viên Bạch Đằng (Thủ Dầu Một ward) and Quảng trường Tháp Tam Thắng (Vũng Tàu ward)
Twenty minutes of projection mapping on a colonial façade followed by a fifteen-minute high-altitude display — the biggest free spectacle of the month.
HOZO 2026 kick-off night
Monday 23 November 2026, 20:00
Saigon Riverside Park (Công viên bờ sông Sài Gòn), An Khánh ward
The city's flagship international music festival opens its 2026 edition on the riverfront, free.
HBSO — “Rare Masterpieces by Great Romantic Composers”
Sunday 22 November 2026, 20:00
Saigon Opera House (Nhà hát Thành phố), 7 Công trường Lam Sơn, District 1
Van Anrooy's Piet Hein Rhapsody in its Vietnam premiere, Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 2 and Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2, under Leon Bosch.
November 2026 in full, with sources →
December 2026 — 6 events
The first weekend of December holds three of the month's six events at once, and they are not a coincidence: all three sit inside Tourism Week #6, which runs 4 to 12 December.
Chợ Lớn Food Story 2026 (4th edition)
Fri 4 – Sun 6 December 2026; opening ceremony 18:00 on Friday 4 December
Trung tâm Cung ứng Dịch vụ công phường An Đông, 105 Trần Hưng Đạo, Chợ Lớn, District 5
Around sixty stalls of Việt–Hoa cooking from the neighbourhood that invented Saigon's Chinese food vocabulary, plus a hands-on cooking session.
Saigon Urban Street Fest (4th edition)
Fri 4 – Sun 6 December 2026
The forecourt of the Central Post Office (Bưu điện Thành phố), District 1
Street art, live music, food and interactive installations in the most photographed square in the city.
Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City International Marathon (9th edition)
Sat 5 December 2026 (5KM race day) and Sun 6 December 2026 (42.195 km, 21.1 km and 10 km)
Start: Lê Duẩn – Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, at the gate of the Zoo and Botanical Garden, District 1
24,000 runners and a route through the centre before dawn — the biggest single morning of the month, and a road-closure event you need warning about either way.
Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Week #6 — “Thức cùng Thành phố – Chạm từng trải nghiệm”
Fri 4 – Sat 12 December 2026; launch 4 December at Saigon Riverside Park; run-up activities from 23 November
City-wide; launch at Saigon Riverside Park, An Khánh ward
The umbrella the whole first week of December sits inside — and the honest way to explain why the marathon, the Chợ Lớn food festival and the street fest all land on the same weekend.
“Say Hi 2027” — New Year concert on the Saigon River axis
Saturday 26 December 2026, 19:00–23:30; fireworks 23:20–23:30
Saigon Riverside Park and Ravo Park (An Khánh ward), the Tôn Đức Thắng pavement, and Nguyễn Huệ Walking Street
27 Vietnamese artists plus ten minutes of high-altitude fireworks over the river, a week before New Year.
IGS German Christmas Market 2026
Saturday 5 December 2026, 16:00–21:00
International German School HCMC, 253/11 Lương Định Của, Bình Trưng ward
Christstollen and Glühwein, gift stalls and children's activities — back after a one-year pause during the school's campus move.
December 2026 in full, with sources →
What is not on this calendar yet
Months before November 2026 have passed and are not listed as month pages. HOZO's main festival nights are not announced — only the 23 November kick-off is dated. New Year's Eve, 31 December 2026: the city has not published its sites or programme (it historically does so around 26 December), so no countdown is listed. The HBSO Christmas concert has no 2026 date on the record — only the 2025 edition.
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