Radiant Nature at Houston Botanic Garden
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Houston Botanic Garden, Houston, Texas
When: November 14, 2025 - February 22, 2026
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
Chinese lantern festivallarger-than-life installationsinteractive swingsphoto spotsbluebonnet lanternsattraction
A Chinese lantern festival at the Houston Botanic Garden with larger-than-life illuminated installations, including a giant peach tree, mythical horses, and Texas bluebonnets, plus interactive swings and photo spots. It runs well past the holidays into late February.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Houston is around 5:24 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:50 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 46°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 0 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 15 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Astros Light Up the Park
- Discovery Green Holiday Lights
- City Lights Downtown Holiday Magic
- Briargrove
- Christmas Village at Bayou Bend
- Deck the Hall
- Lights in the Heights
- Prestonwood Forest
Make a night of it. This is stop 14 on our 15-stop Houston lights loop — about 29.6 miles and 131 minutes of driving in total.