Our February events calendar offers a wide variety of affordable entertainment across the Hawaiian Islands. We’ll continue to update this calendar throughout the month as many organizers announce new events.
As always, we focus on “cheap” things to do with a kamaʻāina adult ticket price of $15 or less or a regular price of $25 or less. Sometimes we suggest events with higher ticket prices that we feel might be worth a splurge, mostly local music, film, and arts events. For more expensive events, we look for popular events with available ticket discounts that can help bring the price down.
If money is tight, check out our free things to do in February. For more things to do every day (free and paid), see our Calendar of free and cheap things to do (hawaiionthecheap.com)
February Holidays & Special Events
- Lunar Year 2025 began January 29 and is the Year of the Snake: Lunar New Year traditions across Kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina (hawaiionthecheap.com)
- February is Black History Month: Black History Month 2025 (blackhistorymonth.gov)
- Groundhog Day: Friday, February 2 (always February 2): Groundhog Day in Hawai‘i (hawaiionthecheap.com)
- Super Bowl LVIII: Sunday, February 9, 2025 (2nd Sunday). Kickoff at 1:30 HST at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, LA. Halftime performer: Kendrick Lamar. On Fox TV and streaming services. 2025 Super Bowl LIX Sunday (nfl.com)
- Valentine’s Day (always February 14): List of Holidays (by month) for 2025 (hawaiionthecheap.com)
- National Day of Remembrance: Executive Order 9066 (always February 19): Day of Remembrance – Japanese American Confinement (U.S. National Park Service)
- Washington’s Birthday (aka Presidents’ Day): Monday, February 17, 2025 (3rd Monday): Federal holidays 2025: What’s closed and open (hawaiionthecheap.com)
- Malasada Day = Mardi Gras occurs in March in 2025: Tuesday, March 4, 2025. More info: Malasada Day: sweet way to celebrate Mardi Gras in Hawaiʻi (hawaiionthecheap.com)
Event calendar of free and affordable things to do
Listed below are all types of free and affordable things to do in the next 30 days across the Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina.
Featured Events are listed first each day, highlighted by a photo. These are unique, popular, or annual events that we or our advertisers don’t want you to overlook.
You might also like: Hawaiʻi on the Cheap – affordable living and things to do (hawaiionthecheap.com)
Is it a Leap Year?
If it is a Leap Year, then we add February 29th to the calendar. Most of us know that we add a day every four years. Why? It takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to circle the Sun. So that extra 1/4 day is added every four years on February 29.
But that’s not quite the whole story. In reality, it takes slightly less than 365.25 days for Earth to go around the Sun. Precisely, it takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds. If you do the math, adding one leap day every four years overcompensates by 11 minutes and 15 seconds every year. So, if we simply add one day every four years, the calendar will creep ahead and pretty soon the calendar will be off again.
To fix this additional discrepancy, the leap year is omitted every so often. Specifically, we don’t add a leap day in years that are divisible by 100. But we do add a leap day in years that are divisible by 400. So, 2000 was a leap year. But 1700, 1800, and 1900 weren’t. And 2100 won’t be.
So, why exactly is it called a “leap” year? Simple. Normally, days of the week advance one day every year. For example, Christmas was on Monday in 2017, Tuesday in 2018, and Wednesday in 2019. In 2020, Christmas would normally be on Thursday. However, because it was a leap year, Christmas was on Friday instead of Thursday. So, it “leaped” a day. Hence…it’s a Leap Year.
If you’ve been following along, 2024 was a Leap Year. The next leap day years are: 2028, 2032, and 2036.
