Holiday guide
Global holiday guide rooted in China's calendar, observed nationwide.
Next occurrence
February 6, 2027
Saturday · Asia/Urumqi
Next occurrence
February 6, 2027
Saturday
Observed in
1 country
Current holiday dataset
Primary context
China
Public
Planning timezone
Asia/Urumqi
UTC+06:00
Next: February 6, 2027 (Saturday)
Lunar New Year pages matter because the holiday is both culturally expansive and calendar-complex, with the Gregorian date shifting from year to year. In the current dataset this holiday is only listed for China.
The festival comes from lunisolar calendar traditions and anchors a wide range of family reunion, ancestor respect, food, and travel customs across East and Southeast Asia.
Even where local names and customs differ, the holiday reliably creates one of the strongest annual travel and closure signals in the region.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is marked as a nationwide observance in the current China holiday data.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar tradition, so the Gregorian date changes from year to year. In the tracked data window, the dates land on 2025: January 29, 2026: February 17, 2027: February 6.
The current static build keeps the tracked 2025-2027 date window online for curated holiday detail pages.
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | January 29, 2025 | Wednesday |
| 2026 | February 17, 2026 | Tuesday |
| 2027 | February 6, 2027 | Saturday |
In China, Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) appears in the calendar as a public holiday. People usually search this page to confirm whether the day changes working hours, whether it creates a long weekend, and how it fits with the broader holiday season in the country.
Country-specific view
China treats this as a nationwide observance.
Operational note
If you are planning travel, payroll, or customer support around Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), use the next-occurrence date and the local timezone block together.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) works as more than a date check in China; it is a public marker that affects staffing, support coverage, school calendars, and travel timing. The next tracked occurrence is February 6, 2027, so this page acts as a quick planning note as well as a historical explainer.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) also appears in other country calendars such as China. The next recorded dates across that wider footprint include China on February 6, 2027, which helps explain why airline schedules, payroll calendars, and global customer-support shifts often treat the holiday as a regional wave rather than a single-country event.
China spans 2 timezones for planning: Asia/Urumqi (UTC+06:00), Asia/Shanghai (UTC+08:00). Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) also tends to be planned alongside Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's Day, because people rarely make calendar decisions about one public holiday in isolation.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is only listed for China in the current dataset.
Asia
1 country
These country rows help explain why the same holiday can matter differently across regions even when the holiday name looks familiar. The next-date column is especially useful for travel, payroll, and support teams that plan across multiple jurisdictions.
| Country | Next date | Type |
|---|---|---|
| China | February 6, 2027 | Public |
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) falls on February 17, 2026 (Tuesday) in 2026.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar tradition, so the Gregorian date changes from year to year. In the tracked data window, the dates land on 2025: January 29, 2026: February 17, 2027: February 6.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is listed as a public holiday in China and is marked as nationwide.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is only listed for China in the current dataset.
China uses Asia/Urumqi (UTC+06:00), Asia/Shanghai (UTC+08:00) for local planning.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is often compared with Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Day on the China calendar.
