What’s Open and Closed in Honolulu for New Year’s Day

Your guide to which city services will be available or suspended on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.
HONOLULU Magazine Team,

 

What’s Open

  • The Ala Wai, ‘Ewa Villages and Ted Makalena golf courses will be open from 7 to 11 a.m. for 18-hole play and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for nine-hole play. Visit golf.honolulu.gov for more information.
  • The Honolulu Zoo will be open.

 

Available Services

  • Emergency ambulance, fire, lifeguard, medical examiner and police services will be available.
  • TheBus will operate on a Sunday schedule. Visit thebus.org for routes and other information.
  • Skyline will operate on a holiday schedule from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Visit honolulu.gov/skyline for rider information.
  • Priority Mail Express mail will be delivered.

 

Closed or Canceled Services

  • Refuse will not be collected. Leave your gray cart curbside until it can be picked up; if you have manual refuse collection, hold onto it until your next scheduled pickup. If Wednesday is your usual blue or green bin day, you’ll have to hold onto your recycling and green waste until your next scheduled pickup—these days will not be made up.
  • Bulky item pickup cannot be scheduled for Jan. 1.
  • Transfer stations, convenience centers, H-POWER and the Waimānalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill will be closed. Visit envhonolulu.org for more information.
  • The Neal S. Blaisdell Center box office will be closed.
  • The People’s Open Markets will not be held.
  • All satellite city halls and driver licensing centers will be closed.
  • Botanical gardens and Hanauma Bay will be closed.
  • The Kahuku, Pali and West Loch golf courses will be closed.
  • State public libraries will be closed on Jan. 1. Libraries that normally open in the evening on Tuesdays will close at 4 p.m. on Dec. 31.
  • Post offices will be closed, and mail will not be delivered or picked up from blue collection boxes.

 

Traffic and Parking Regulations

  • There will be free on-street parking, excluding the meters on Kalākaua Avenue along Queen Kapi‘olani Park, metered parking lots and certain Waikīkī streets.
  • Traffic lanes will not be coned for contraflow.

 

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