San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade Attendance

Chinese new year parade.

San francisco chinese new year parade attendance. San francisco s chinese new year parade draws huge crowd despite coronavirus fears by betty yu february 8 2020 at 11 19 pm filed under. It starts at 5 15pm at the corner of 2nd and market streets. With a new surge in covid 19 cases and a vaccine still not available organizers for san francisco s annual chinese new year parade announced sunday they were cancelling the 2021 event scheduled.

It s an event bursting with sound. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the bay area poured into san francisco for the chinese new year parade which is the largest of its kind outside of asia. At second and market streets.

Chinese new year parade san francisco san francisco news. Hundreds of thousands expected to attend chinese new year parade festival in san francisco by bay city news published february 15 2014 updated on february 15 2014 at 7 28 pm. The 2020 chinese new year parade is on saturday february 8.

One year after san francisco s hugely popular chinese new year parade was nearly put on hiatus because of growing concerns over the coronavirus and crowds the 2021 version has been officially. It takes a team of more than 100 people to operate and move it through the streets of san francisco. The parade also includes several floats the largest and most popular of which is the 28 foot long golden dragon.

San francisco despite some concern this week that the coronavirus scare would keep people away thousands still showed up to the chinese lunar new year parade.