China public holidays
Statutory public holidays for the 2026 calendar year. China has 13 statutory paid holiday DAYS across seven holidays (per the State Council's Regulation on Public Holidays for National Annual Festivals and Memorial Days, as amended effective 2025). Each year the General Office of the State Council issues an arrangement notice that bundles these into longer consecutive breaks by borrowing adjacent weekends, offset by designated make-up WORKING weekend days (调休).
| Current value | 7 days held |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| In force until | 2026-12-31 |
| Official source | 国务院办公厅关于2026年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2025〕7号），2025年11月4日 (General Office of the State Council, Notice on the Arrangement of Public Holidays for 2026, No.7 of 2025, issued 4 Nov 2025) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-23 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
IMPORTANT — the '3/5/7/9 days off' above are the OBSERVED continuous breaks, which combine statutory holiday days with adjacent weekends and 调休 (make-up) days, NOT the count of statutory paid days. The seven holidays comprise 13 statutory paid days total (元旦 1, 春节 4, 清明 1, 劳动节 2, 端午 1, 中秋 1, 国庆 3) after the Nov-2024 reform that raised Spring Festival from 3->4 and Labour Day from 1->2 statutory days effective 2025. The MAKE-UP WORKING-DAY system (调休): to lengthen breaks the government designates otherwise-off weekend days as working days — for 2026 these are Sun 4 Jan, Sat 14 Feb, Sat 28 Feb, Sat 9 May, Sun 20 Sep and Sat 10 Oct (workdays despite being weekends). Spring Festival 2026 runs 15–23 Feb (9 days, the longest single break in the modern schedule). This is a MAINLAND (PRC) schedule only; Hong Kong and Macau SARs keep separate holiday calendars. Served source is the People's Daily authorised full-text reprint of the State Council notice; the same text is on gov.cn and beijing.gov.cn (https://www.beijing.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengcefagui/202511/t20251104_4258873.html). Next year's arrangement (2027) is typically published late 2026.
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