Nov 21, 2026
Boston Loy Krathong Festival 2026 in Chinatown
NEC Events lists a free Boston Loy Krathong Festival on Saturday, November 21, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Beach Street and Hudson Street in Chinatown. Food vendors, performances, a Noppamas pageant, and krathong activities.
Free admission
NEC Events LLC is listing the Boston Loy Krathong Festival for Saturday, November 21, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Beach Street and Hudson Street in Boston Chinatown. Boston Central and The Boston Calendar both call admission free, with food, drinks, and purchases sold separately. The festival sits near the Chinatown Gate around 60 Beach Street. Organizer contact on the Boston Central card is 774-688-5814.
Expect Asian food and craft vendors, cultural performances, live music, a Noppamas pageant, and traditional krathong floating activities. Loy Krathong is Thailand's full-moon festival of floating baskets. This Chinatown edition is a daytime street fair, not a river ceremony on the Charles. Come for the food grid and the stage, then decide whether the floating activity is a photo stop or a longer wait depending on the queue.
Harvard Square's Thai Night runs the weekend before on November 14, from 4:00 to 10:00 p.m. on Brattle Street. That one is the after-dark Cambridge market. Chinatown on November 21 is the Saturday you can walk from South Station or the Orange Line without planning a night coat. Stack them only if different people in the household want different clocks. Doing both as one person means two festival weekends in a row.
Who this is for: Chinatown regulars, Thai and Southeast Asian families in Greater Boston, and anyone who wants a free outdoor November Saturday with food stalls as the main plan. Skip it if you already spent your Loy Krathong energy in Harvard Square and do not want another vendor day. November outdoors still means layers, even at noon.
Beach and Hudson are walkable from Chinatown station on the Orange Line and from South Station if you prefer the Red or Silver. Street closures around the Gate get tight once vendors load in. Arrive near 11:00 if you want shorter food lines; mid-afternoon is better for the pageant if that is your priority. Confirm any last-minute street map on the Boston Central listing or the organizer phone the morning of.
When: November 21, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. (free)
Where: Beach Street and Hudson Street, Boston Chinatown
Last checked: November 10, 2026
Details via Boston Central and The Boston Calendar.
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