COVID is still on but at least it's outdoor so hope some Hmong can join in too

[theking]

Nice seeing Hmong joined the Lunar Parade as a Hmong spectator:

Today, this celebration and parade is one of the largest in the world. More than three million people watch the parade every year. There are more than 100 parade entries. These include participants marching down the street with flags, lanterns, and drums.  The parade also includes several floats, the largest and most popular of which is the 28-foot-long Golden Dragon. It takes a team of more than 100 people to operate and move it through the streets of San Francisco. The 2022 Chinese New Year Parade is on Saturday, February 19. It starts at 5:15pm at the corner of 2nd and Market Streets. It then weaves its way through Chinatown and ends at Jackson and Kearny Streets. The parade usually ends around 8pm.

[theking]

SF's weather is usually mild year round so weather is not a factor but COVID still is so wear a mask regardless:

[theking]

They say "3 million" spectators, I believe it as I've been there as well as the Lunar New Year crowd in the sample photos below:

[Visualmon]

Dayum! That's a lot. It's more than the Hmong peeps attending HNY. 

If Hmong people from Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina come to SF that's the equivalent to the numbers of crowd attending Lunar New Year.