Does United States have Lantern Festival?
Not observed here
There is no Lantern Festival in the United States. The federal holidays number eleven, fixed by act of Congress, and nothing on that list follows the moon — every one is either a fixed month-and-day or an nth Monday. That alone decides why a lunar festival cannot get in: a date that drifts each year is at odds with a system designed to pin holidays to Mondays for three-day weekends. The Lunar New Year parades in San Francisco and New York go ahead as always, but they are put on by cities and communities, not by the holiday list.
What is this topic?
The same lunar date is three different scenes in Taiwan alone — eating tangyuan and walking through a lantern display, releasing sky lanterns in Pingxi, or standing inside a wall of exploding fireworks in Yanshui — while in mainland China it is a working day, not one of the days off for all citizens. This page compares ritual intensity and civic status under one calendar date.
Sources and dates
Dates follow local time zones, calendars, and official notices. Check the source when a date is estimated or locally variable.