Hari Raya: Muslims and Hindus will spring clean their house the day before the festival

Chinese New Year: Start of a new year

Differences:

Hari Raya: Unlike ancient indian festival, the muslims celebrate Hari Raya

as an achievement after fasting for one month.

Chinese New Year: different gods

Differences : Chinese New Year is celebrated 

on first month 15th of Chinese Lunar calendar

but Diwali Falls on the one new moon night (Amavasya)

between mid-October and mid-November.

Similarities :

Similarities: Both festivals represent a new year being celebrated

Differences: They are celebrated by different people,have different gods and celebrate it in a different way

Similarities: Kids go out and play with decorative lanterns

Differences: Indian Kids get money from their elders and Chinese kids get money from their elders in the form of red-envelopes.

Similarities:

Both festivals are to celebrate and 'welcome' the new year.

Differences:

During Chinese New Year, people go door to door to their relatives houses to visit them and wish them some prosperous blessing. And both festivals are celebrated by different people and their believes are different

Similarities: At Christmas, people put lights up as they do at Diwali. People give presents in both of these celebration. At Christmas people worship Jesus and at Diwali people worship and pray for Lakshmi.

Difference: They are both celebrated by 2 different religions.Christmas is celebrating Jesus's birth while Diwali is the festival of light.Diwali celebrates the victory of good over evil,light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance.

Diwali : Like a new year for the Indians people and people clean and decorate their houses to prepare for this day

Chinese New Year :A new year for chinese and they clean their house and decorate their house too

Similarities : Both worship a goddess on a

full moon night

Difference : Durga Puja is celebrated on the 

sixth day of Ashvan (7th month of

the Hindu calendar but Lantern Festival is

celebrated on the fifteenth of the

8th month of the lunar calendar