New Year
1-3 January
3 days
Working day: 4 January
Planning calendar
China factory holiday calendar 2026
Use the official public holiday schedule as an early planning reference. Confirm every production, sample and shipment milestone directly with the supplier.
Spring Festival
15-23 February
9 days
Working days: 14 and 28 February
Qingming Festival
4-6 April
3 days
No additional working day listed
Labour Day
1-5 May
5 days
Working day: 9 May
Dragon Boat Festival
19-21 June
3 days
No additional working day listed
Mid-Autumn Festival
25-27 September
3 days
No additional working day listed
National Day
1-7 October
7 days
Working days: 20 September and 10 October
Plan beyond the published holiday dates.
Factories, suppliers, freight providers and inspection teams may use different shutdown, return-to-work and capacity schedules. Treat this page as a planning prompt, not a delivery commitment or logistics guarantee.
Source: State Council General Office 2026 holiday notice. Reviewed 27 July 2026.
Last reviewed 15 September 2026
Why factory downtime is longer than the official holiday
The published schedule is the statutory public holiday. A factory's actual stoppage is longer at both ends, and Spring Festival is the case that breaks plans: migrant staff travel home before the official start and return over the following weeks, so output ramps down before the dates and back up slowly after them. Planning to the published dates is planning to the shortest possible version of the shutdown.
- Staff leave before the official start and return unevenly afterwards
- The first weeks back run below normal output while lines refill
- Sub-suppliers and component makers keep their own calendars, so a factory can be open and still waiting
How to use these dates when placing an order
Work backwards from the shutdown rather than forwards from today. Fix the date production has to be complete, add the inspection window before it, and treat the last week before a holiday as unusable for anything that needs care. Quality problems cluster there: a line trying to clear an order before a shutdown is a line under pressure to pass things.
- Set the production completion date well before the shutdown, not against it
- Book the inspection while rework is still physically possible
- Expect the pre-holiday week to be the worst week to accept a lot
- Confirm the factory's own calendar in writing — the statutory dates are the floor
Where these dates come from
The table reproduces the public holiday schedule as published by the State Council, including the make-up working days that fall either side. It is a planning reference, not a factory calendar: an individual supplier's dates can be longer, and are the ones that actually govern your order.
Common questions
How long do Chinese factories actually close for Spring Festival?
Longer than the statutory holiday. The official period is the published block of days, but staff travel before it and return over the following weeks, so a factory's effective stoppage and slow restart together run well past the dates. Ask the supplier for their own closing and reopening dates in writing rather than working from the public schedule.
When should an order be placed to ship before a holiday?
Early enough that production finishes with room for an inspection and for rework if the inspection finds something. Working back from the shutdown rather than forward from today is the part most plans get wrong.
Are these dates the factory's dates?
No. They are the statutory public holidays, which is the floor. Individual factories close longer, and their sub-suppliers may close on a different schedule again. Confirm the supplier's own calendar in writing.