China Public Holidays 2025
China has 15 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Mid-Autumn Festival on 6 October 2025. Three well placed days of leave buy 16 days away from work in 2025, because three holidays sit exactly one working day from a weekend.
2025 has ended. This page is kept as a record of what the calendar was. For dates you can still plan around, see China in 2026 or China in 2027.
Looking back: China observed 15 national public holidays in 2025, the same number as in 2026. Four fell on a Saturday or Sunday, the same as in 2026. The calendar produced four long weekends that year, against six in 2026.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's Dayๅ ๆฆ | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Spring Festivalๆฅ่ | Tuesday | Public holiday | |
| Spring Festivalๆฅ่ | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Spring Festivalๆฅ่ | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| International Women's Dayๅฝ้ ๅฆๅฅณ่ | SaturdayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Qingming Festivalๆธ ๆ่ ๆธ ๆ็ฏ | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Labour Dayๅณๅจ่ | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Youth Day้ๅนด่ | SundayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Dragon Boat Festival็ซฏๅ่ | SaturdayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Children's Dayๅ ญไธๅฟ็ซฅ่ | SundayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Army Dayๅปบๅ่ | Friday | Public holiday | |
| National Dayๅฝๅบ่ | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| National Dayๅฝๅบ่ | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| National Dayๅฝๅบ่ | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Mid-Autumn Festivalไธญ็ง่ | Monday | Public holiday |
- Status
- Set in lawThe calendar is set in standing law rather than announced year by year, so 2025 needs no separate publication.
- Last verified
- The newest check behind a China entry, against the source named in the corrections log.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with no corrections needed for China.Always confirm official dates with a local authority before booking travel. How these calendars are built. Spotted an error? Tell us and we will check it.
Expect the most closures around January (4 holidays), so schedule deliveries and appointments with that in mind. Four of them fall on a Saturday or Sunday in 2025, which is worth checking if you are counting on days off from work. The table below lists every China public holiday for 2025 with its exact date and the weekday it falls on, so you can see the long weekends at a glance. Regional and local observances are excluded, so what you see are the holidays recognised across China.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does China have in 2025?
China has 15 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and the last is Mid-Autumn Festival on 6 October 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in China?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in China in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in China is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for China?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of China are listed separately on the China holiday hub, together with the regions that observe them.
Do the China holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Six of the 15 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (lunisolar calendar), so their date has to be recalculated for every year. The rest keep the same calendar date and only change weekday. Moving ones this year include Spring Festival on 28 January 2025, Spring Festival on 29 January 2025 and Spring Festival on 30 January 2025, plus 3 more.
How far ahead is the China calendar actually fixed?
Through 2026. The General Office of the State Council publishes the holiday arrangement for the following year in early November, including which weekends are worked to bridge the golden weeks, so anything past that is computed from the rules in force rather than read off an official list. No corrections to the underlying dataset were needed for China.
Which China holidays are regional, and which move?
The table above is the national calendar for 2025. Some holidays keep the same date every year while others are tied to Easter, to a lunar calendar or to a named weekday, and some parts of the country add their own days off. The China holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare China with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for China
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the China public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the China 2025 calendar
Knowing the dates is half the question. The other half is what they add up to: which of them create a long weekend and how many working days the year leaves. The 2025 worldwide overview compares every country on holiday count and weekend overlap, and the country index ranks all 44 of them. The same figures are available as JSON, and the dates as a calendar file.