China public holidays 2027
China has 6 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 257 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
元旦 |
Nationwide |
| 6 Feb | Saturday rest day | Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)
春节 |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
劳动节 |
Nationwide |
| 9 Jun | Wednesday | Dragon Boat Festival
端午节 |
Nationwide |
| 15 Sep | Wednesday | Mid-Autumn Festival
中秋节 |
Nationwide |
| 1 Oct | Friday | National Day
国庆节 |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March
April
May 1 holiday
June 1 holiday
July
August
September 1 holiday
October 1 holiday
November
December
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 4 | 257 | 2,056 |
What the numbers say about China in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in China. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) (6 Feb), Labour Day (1 May). On the calendar alone that means no extra time off. Some countries move the day off to the next working day; whether that applies here is set by national rules, so check before you plan around it.
March is the longest working month with 23 days, and October the shortest with 20. A gap of 3 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 63 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 255working days, so 2027gives you 2 more working days.Plans copied over from last year without adjusting for that difference will be slightly off from January onwards.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 6, China sits below the middle of the range, around the 7th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 2 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). See every long weekend in 2027.
3 holidays change date compared with 2026: Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.