Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 lands on Friday, 25 September — but if you want the best hotel mooncakes at the best price, the deadline that matters is weeks earlier. Every major hotel runs an early-bird discount of 15–35% off, and those windows close in waves from late July through late September. Miss the cut-off and you pay full price for the exact same box. So this is a book-early list: ten of Singapore's most-loved hotel mooncake collections for 2026, each with its real early-bird deal, the order-by date, signature flavours and box prices.
> The one rule for 2026: order before the early-bird cut-off, not before the festival. A 30% early-bird on a $100 box saves you $30 — and the most popular flavours (durian, whisky truffle) sell out first.
When is Mooncake Festival 2026?
Mooncake Festival 2026 — also called the Mid-Autumn Festival, 中秋节 or Zhongqiu Jie — falls on FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2026. That is the date in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan alike, because the festival follows the lunar calendar rather than any one country's holiday list: it is always the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, the night of the full harvest moon.
At a glance:
| Mooncake Festival 2026 | Details |
|---|---|
| Date | Friday, 25 September 2026 |
| Lunar date | 15th day, 8th lunar month |
| Public holiday in Singapore? | No — it is an ordinary working Friday |
| Usual celebration | Reunion dinner, mooncakes and tea, lantern walks that evening |
| Next year | Wednesday, 15 September 2027 |
Because 25 September 2026 is not a public holiday in Singapore, most families gather that Friday evening after work, or shift the celebration to the weekend of 26–27 September. Lantern displays at Gardens by the Bay and the Chinatown Mid-Autumn light-up run for several weeks beforehand, so you do not have to wait for the day itself.
The buying season, though, is far longer than the festival. Hotel mooncake collections go on sale from June, early-bird discounts close in waves from late July right through to late September (full table below), and mooncake fairs run all the way to the 25th. So if you are buying mooncakes as gifts, the deadline that actually matters is the early-bird cut-off — not 25 September.
Early-bird deadlines still open, earliest first
Updated 20 August 2026 — 36 days to the festival.
| Order by | Hotel | What you still get |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026 | Fairmont Singapore | Up to 35% (Accor+ / AMEX Plat), or 25% with code MC26PB25 |
| 23 Aug 2026 | The Fullerton Hotel | 25% — Letterbox of 2 at $51, four-piece boxes $69–71.25 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | The Capitol Kempinski | 20% (musical & lacquer boxes), or 25% on AMEX/Citi/DBS/OCBC/UOB |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Wan Hao (Marriott Tang Plaza) | Up to 35% — GET20OFF + LTO5OFF (25%) plus 10% for self-collection |
| 6 Sep 2026 | Mandarin Oriental (Cherry Garden) | 30% off 4-pc sets (MOONLIT30) |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Raffles Hotel (online) | 20% online, all major banks |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Xin Cuisine (Holiday Inn Atrium) | Up to 35%, or 1-for-1 on two selected boxes |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Andaz Singapore | 25% (participating bank cards) |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Hai Tien Lo (Pan Pacific) | Up to 25% |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Mandarin Oriental (Cherry Garden) | 20% off 4-pc sets on OCBC/DBS/UOB/Citi/AMEX/HSBC |
The next two cliffs are Fairmont on 22 August and The Fullerton on 23 August — after those, nothing expires until 31 August. Two things worth knowing this week: Mandarin Oriental's 30% is back under a new code (MOONLIT30) after the 13 August version lapsed, so it is no longer the urgent one; and at Wan Hao the two promo codes stack — GET20OFF and LTO5OFF together make 25%, not 20%, before the self-collection bonus.
Deadlines that have passed — and what you can still get
Five early-birds have now closed, but not one of them left you paying full price. In every case the hotel shrank the discount instead of removing it:
| Hotel | Early bird that closed | What you get now |
|---|---|---|
| The Fullerton | 30%, closed 22 Jul | 25% until 23 Aug |
| Hai Tien Lo | 30%, closed 27 Jul | Up to 25% until 25 Sep |
| Hilton Orchard × Old Seng Choong | 25%, closed 6 Aug | Hilton Honors: 25% off for Gold/Diamond, 10% for Base/Silver — all season, plus up to 20% on selected cards in Sep |
| Andaz Singapore | 35%, closed 9 Aug | 25% until 25 Sep |
| Raffles Hotel | 30% (UOB), closed 9 Aug | 20% online until 18 Sep; at the booth 15% 17–31 Aug, then 10% 1–25 Sep |
So a missed deadline is worth ten seconds of checking rather than a shrug — Hilton is the standout, because a free Hilton Honors Gold status you may already hold through a credit card gets you the same 25% the early-bird did.












