Things to do at night on Oʻahu

What’s on, night by night

Everything that happens on a fixed night. Pick tonight, or what you’re in the mood for.

Once a month

Not weekly, but worth planning around.

What closes early

The closing times that catch visitors out. Park hours are whatever the sign at that park says — there’s no island-wide time.

Things other guides get wrong

• “The Kūhiō Beach hula show runs Tuesdays and Saturdays”

  Saturdays only. The show’s own site says, in capitals, that Tuesday shows were discontinued after June 2026, and the Waikīkī Improvement Association gives the same date. Anything listing Thursdays as well was never right.

• “There is a nightly torch lighting ceremony in Waikīkī”

  No organiser currently publishes one. The hula show’s own page describes the conch and never mentions torches. The only recent torch lighting we could find was a one-off marathon weekend ceremony in December 2025. We are not saying it has ended — only that nobody publishes it.

• “Honolulu Night Market is monthly”

  It is not. Our Kakaʻako lists it as a single date — 18 July 2026, and before that July 2025. Turning up in Kakaʻako on the strength of a monthly listing gets you an empty street.

• “Liliha Bakery is open 24 hours”

  None of the six locations is. The original on Kuakini runs 6am to 10pm, and every other branch closes at 10pm or earlier. This is possibly the most commonly repeated wrong fact about Honolulu on the internet.

• “Wailana Coffee House is the late-night spot”

  It closed in October 2018 after forty-nine years. It is still listed in a Honolulu magazine late-night dining guide whose publish date is 2013 — which tells you what to make of that guide generally.

• “Art After Dark at the art museum”

  Replaced, not cancelled. It is HoMA Nights now, every Friday 6–9pm in the central courtyard.

• “Swimming with manta rays at night”

  Kona, on Hawaiʻi Island, only. Every operator running it is based in Kailua-Kona. There is no Oʻahu manta night snorkel, and this is the biggest cross-island trap in the whole "Hawaiʻi at night" search.

• “Watching the lava glow after dark”

  Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, also Hawaiʻi Island, about two hundred miles and a flight away.

• “Stargazing on Mauna Kea”

  Hawaiʻi Island. The Oʻahu equivalents are the Bishop Museum planetarium and the astronomical society’s park star parties — much lower, and under a lot more light.