The full swing of winter is upon us but San Diego still holds steady with abundant sunshine and beauty during the romantic month of the year.
Book your February 2025 stay now and enjoy the simplicity of being just minutes away from these great events.
Museum Month
San Diego’s Museum Month 2025 will be BIGGER and MORE FUN with more than 70 museums, historic sites, gardens, zoos, aquariums and more.With so many museums to explore during San Diego Museum Month this February, you may be wondering where to get started. We have created a series of handy Neighborhood Guides to Museum Month to help you find your next cultural adventure.
Mardi Gras West Coast
Any opportunity to eat, drink and be merry – then eat some more – should be embraced, and San Diego’s Mardi Gras celebrations are no exception. Head downtown to the Gaslamp Quarter for a carnival of dance, live music and flamboyant costumes on and around Shrove Tuesday. Be sure to fill up on Creole-spiced jambalaya and as many beignets as you can manage – these sugar-coated slabs of deep-fried deliciousness (basically a square, holeless doughnut) are a Mardi Gras staple, and you’ll need the energy for all that dancing! Missed the main event? Fear not: Mardi Gras celebrations run every weekend through February at SeaWorld San Diego.
Chinese New Year
Sure, San Diego’s Chinatown ain’t the biggest on the planet, spanning a relatively meager eight blocks downtown. But, for such a (relatively) diminutive enclave, its annual lunar New Year celebrations still pack a mighty punch. Mosey on down to the Gaslamp Quarter for two days of family friendly fun, featuring all the entertainments you might reasonably expect from such an event. We’re talking vibrant lion and dragon dances, awesome martial arts demonstrations, traditional Chinese music, and sunset red-and-orange lanterns dancing on the breeze. Then, of course, there’s the food. Oh boy, the food. Are yourself with some chopsticks and follow your nose through great clouds of garlic-and-galangal-infused steam to stalls hawking the very best in authentic Chinese cuisine. Come hungry!
San Diego Black Film Festival
Established in 2002 and held each year during the last week of January, the San Diego Black Film Festival has grown to become one of the largest black film festivals in the country. We screen over 100 films each year: Comedy, Drama, Documentaries, Animation, GLBT, Horror, Religious, Foreign/African Diaspora, Shorts, Feature Films and music videos.
As the first and largest black film festival of the year, numerous other festival reps scout new films from us for their event. Simply put, each year the San Diego Black Film Festival will premiere a large percentage of the independent black films that will prove successful throughout the year at other film festivals.
