Our September 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 September. For more things to do every day (free and paid), see our Calendar of free and cheap things to do (hawaiionthecheap.com)

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September Holidays & Special Events
- September 4, 2023. Labor Day (Federal holiday).
- September 9, 2023. Oʻahu: Aloha Festivals Royal Court Investiture & Opening Ceremony in Waikīkī
- September 11 (also referred to as 9/11 or “nine eleven”) remembers terrorist attacks in 2001: the New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and a plane crash in Pennsylvania.
- September 22. Fall or Autumnal equinox when the sun rises exactly East and sets exactly West. From now until the spring equinox, the sun will rise and set in the southern sky.
- September-October. Aloha Festivals Oʻahu events and ʻOhana Festivals on neighbor islands (hawaiionthecheap.com)
Calendar of free and cheap September events
Featured Events are list first each day, highlighted by a photo. Featured events are unique or annual events that we or our advertisers don’t want you to overlook.
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