What’s Open or Closed in Honolulu for Christmas

Your guide to which Honolulu City and County services and retail stores will be available on Christmas Eve and Christmas 2024.

On Tuesday, Dec. 24, Christmas Eve

What’s Open

• Post offices will be open but may have atypical hours.
• Ala Moana Center, Pearlridge Center: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Ka Makana Ali‘i: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Kāhala Mall: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Ward Village: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Windward Mall: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Foodland locations: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Target: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Times Supermarket locations: 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Whole Foods Market locations: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Libraries that normally have evening hours on Tuesdays will close at 4 p.m. on Dec. 24.

Available Services

• Mail dropped in blue collection boxes may be picked up earlier than usual, so the United States Postal Service recommends dropping it off by noon, even if listed collection times are later. Regular mail will be delivered.

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On Wednesday, Dec. 25, Christmas Day

What’s Open

• The Pali and West Loch 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. Kahuku Golf Course will be open from 7 a.m. to noon. Visit golf.honolulu.gov for more information.
• All Consolidated Theatres will be open.

Available Services

• Emergency ambulance, fire, lifeguard, medical examiner and police services will be on duty.
• 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.

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 Dec. 25.
• Transfer stations, convenience centers, H-POWER and the Waimānalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill will be closed.
• 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.
• The Honolulu Botanical Gardens, Honolulu Zoo and Hanauma Bay will be closed.
• The Ala Wai, ‘Ewa Villages and Ted Makalena golf courses will be closed.
• All state libraries will be closed.
• Ala Moana Center, Kāhala Mall, Pearlridge Center, Ward Village and Windward Mall will all be closed.
• Foodland, Target, Times Supermarket and Whole Foods locations will be closed.

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.