Get there early, no later than 11am. Long queues are expected at the Central Ferry Pier and congestion on Cheung Chau, even with extra ferries.
2pm: Festival parade with children on stilts, lion and unicorn dances, martial arts performances, traditional music bands and statues of gods and goddesses for worship. Procession from Pak Tai Temple to Pak She and San Hing streets, before turning to the Praya Street on the seafront.
5pm to 6pm: Parade heads back to the Pak Tai Temple. People carrying statues of gods will literally run back to the temple once they reach Pak She Street, a traditional practice where they fight to be the first one back for luck in the coming year.
6pm-11.30pm: Offerings and Taoist ceremonies will be staged for the dead of the 1894 epidemic at the seafront facing the Pak Tai Temple. The three giant paper gods will be burned about 11.30pm.
Before 10.30pm: Line up near the football pitch in front of the temple for tickets to see the bun climb. Only the first 1,000 in the line will be able to see the historic scramble first-hand. The next 1,200 can watch on large screens, one at the east of the island, the other on the south side.
Midnight: Bun Scrambling Competition. A dozen finalists will climb the 14-metre steel tower to grab the buns for three minutes. Buns from the top will give them the highest score.