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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for China, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.
The next public holiday in China is
Mid-Autumn Festival
In 49 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Asia/Shanghai
Work with China’s calendar
- Count working days Business days between two dates, with China’s closures removed and every excluded day named.
- Find the next business day Add or subtract N working days from a date, skipping weekends and closures — for filing and settlement dates.
- Discover long weekends Every run of consecutive days off in a year, and the bridge days worth taking. Pick China from the list.
- Compare with your other markets China beside the rest — the weeks that work everywhere, and which dates are still estimates.
China public holidays in 2026
33 national closures in 2026, of 36 observances held for the country. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day | Verified |
| 2 January 2026 | New Year holiday (3-day block) expected | Verified |
| 3 January 2026 | New Year holiday (3-day block) expected | Verified |
| 15 February 2026 | Spring Festival holiday (9-day block) expected | Verified |
| 16 February 2026 | Lunar New Year's Eve | Compiled |
| 17 February 2026 | Spring Festival expected | Compiled |
| 18 February 2026 | Spring Festival Day 2 expected | Compiled |
| 19 February 2026 | Spring Festival Day 3 expected | Compiled |
| 20 February 2026 | Spring Festival holiday (9-day block) expected | Verified |
| 21 February 2026 | Spring Festival holiday (9-day block) expected | Verified |
| 22 February 2026 | Spring Festival holiday (9-day block) expected | Verified |
| 23 February 2026 | Spring Festival holiday (9-day block) expected | Verified |
| 4 April 2026 | Qingming holiday (3-day block) expected | Verified |
| 5 April 2026 | Qingming Festival | Compiled |
| 6 April 2026 | Qingming holiday (3-day block) expected | Verified |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day | Verified |
| 2 May 2026 | Labour Day 2 | Verified |
| 3 May 2026 | Labour Day holiday (5-day block) expected | Verified |
| 4 May 2026 | Labour Day holiday (5-day block) expected | Verified |
| 5 May 2026 | Labour Day holiday (5-day block) expected | Verified |
| 19 June 2026 | Dragon Boat Festival expected | Compiled |
| 20 June 2026 | Dragon Boat holiday (3-day block) expected | Verified |
| 21 June 2026 | Dragon Boat holiday (3-day block) expected | Verified |
| 25 September 2026 | Mid-Autumn Festival expected | Compiled |
| 26 September 2026 | Mid-Autumn holiday (3-day block) expected | Verified |
| 27 September 2026 | Mid-Autumn holiday (3-day block) expected | Verified |
| 1 October 2026 | National Day | Verified |
| 2 October 2026 | National Day 2 | Verified |
| 3 October 2026 | National Day 3 | Verified |
| 4 October 2026 | National Day holiday (7-day block) expected | Verified |
| 5 October 2026 | National Day holiday (7-day block) expected | Verified |
| 6 October 2026 | National Day holiday (7-day block) expected | Verified |
| 7 October 2026 | National Day holiday (7-day block) expected | Verified |
Long weekends in China, 2026
7 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. Weekends and national closures only.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day, New Year holiday (3-day block) | no leave needed |
| 14 Feb – 23 Feb | 10 days | Spring Festival holiday (9-day block), Lunar New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Spring Festival Day 2, Spring Festival Day 3 | no leave needed |
| 4 Apr – 6 Apr | 3 days | Qingming holiday (3-day block), Qingming Festival | no leave needed |
| 1 May – 5 May | 5 days | Labour Day, Labour Day 2, Labour Day holiday (5-day block) | no leave needed |
| 19 Jun – 21 Jun | 3 days | Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat holiday (3-day block) | no leave needed |
| 25 Sep – 27 Sep | 3 days | Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn holiday (3-day block) | no leave needed |
| 1 Oct – 7 Oct | 7 days | National Day, National Day 2, National Day 3, National Day holiday (7-day block) | no leave needed |
Working weekends in China, 2026
6 weekend days that the government has declared a working day, to pay for a longer holiday block elsewhere in the year. Offices are open; these are not weekends.
| Date | Day | Why | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 January | Sunday | Working Sunday (makes up a holiday block) | Verified |
| 14 February | Saturday | Working Saturday (makes up a holiday block) | Verified |
| 28 February | Saturday | Working Saturday (makes up a holiday block) | Verified |
| 9 May | Saturday | Working Saturday (makes up a holiday block) | Verified |
| 20 September | Sunday | Working Sunday (makes up a holiday block) | Verified |
| 10 October | Saturday | Working Saturday (makes up a holiday block) | Verified |
Next in each subdivision
4 subdivisions of China keep dates the national calendar does not. The next one in each is below — the full calendars are in the API.
| Subdivision | Next | Observance |
|---|---|---|
| Nei Mongol Zizhiqu | 11 July 2027 | Naadam Day 1 |
| Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu | 10 March 2027 | Eid al-Fitr expected |
| Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu | 10 March 2027 | Eid al-Fitr expected |
| Xizang Zizhiqu | 26 February 2028 | Tibetan New Year |
How China keeps time
| Observances | 36 across the national calendar and 5 subdivisions |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 13 verified · 0 corroborated · 23 compiled, from 1 named source |
| Languages | English, Chinese, zh-Latn |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | XSHE, XSHG |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-03 |
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