Lantern Festival Las Vegas 2025 Dates. Get out your calendar and mark off. The lighthouse water lantern festival is coming to las vegas, nv saturday, october 18th, 2025.

Held in the fall, rise lantern festival nevada kicks off at the jean dry lakebed, located about 30 minutes south of the las vegas strip. The rise lantern festival has been an annual event for several years, drawing massive crowds from las vegas and locations that are a little further away, like california.