Collage of Photos shot by LG @jayasimha78 during the parade
Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco was back in full swing this year after a break last year due to pandemic. Last one I attended was in 2020, that just before pandemic started.
Parade was held on February 19th 2022. Parade route in approximately 1.3 Miles long. Parade is free to public, you can stand on either side of the road on the side walk to watch the parade. There are also several paid seating stands on the parade route.
Parade starts around 5.30PM in the evening, this is one of the largest Night Parades in the USA and also one of the largest Chinese New Year Parade outside Asia.
Here is the Map of Parade RouteParade starts at Market and 2nd Street.
Collage of Several dragons which were part of the parade.
Parade consists varieties of dragons, Lion Dancers, Marching Bands, Chinese Acrobats, Stilt Walkers, Several Floats. Also San Francisco Mayor and City Council members participate in this parade.
There were over 100,000 people attended this years parade.
Parade starts with a fireworks, you can see that in the above picture. Also floats lined up at the start line of the parade.
One of the big sponsors of the Parade is Alaska Airlines.
Being Year of Tiger, there were several Floats of Tigers in the parade. Here is the Alaska Airline Tiger Float. In fact tiger head can rotate left and right!
Here is another float with Tiger which belonged to Comcast!
I believe this is one of the best floats of the parade.
The best place to shoot the parade is where folks have lined up for the parade and getting ready and practicing. Here is a group of Lion dancers who participated in the parade.
Everything in the parade pretty much starts with a fireworks, here is a group of lion dancers before the parade waiting for fireworks to go off!
It is really fun to watch Dragon Dancers, there were so many verities of dragon in the parade.
Chinese New Year is almost a two weeks celebration in San Francisco, which includes many cultural activities including Miss Chinatown USA Pageant.
Here is a shot of San Francisco Mayor London Breed who participated in the parade.
Here is a shot of one of the Marching bands. There were several bands participated during this parade.
This was one of the new groups, which I have not seen before. There was a whole Starwars group, including Darth vader. Checkout more photos in the album I have shared below.
Another attraction a huge shopping cart of ‘Lucky’ grocery store chain!
Parade ends with this huge lighted dragon carried by over 100 people, of course there is fireworks through out the parade next to this dragon dancers.
Here is the close up of the Dragon!
This years added bonus was a 15 mins fireworks at Union Square after the final Dragon dancers.
Check out this album on Google Photos for more pictures from the parade: Parade Photo Album
This post is also part of @AdrianLunsong 's #LocalGuideLove Challenge
- how exciting! Your photos are incredible, 
. Great to also see the representation as well. Is it always held in February?
Wow, it’s so beautiful & colourful photo thanks for sharing it in details about the Chinese New Year parade 2022.