Closure expectation
HighChinese New Year (Spring Festival) is modeled as a public holiday in China; expect office, bank, school, and service-hour changes unless a local exception applies.
Holiday guide
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival).
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
Countdown
Next: February 6, 2027 (Saturday)
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)
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Lunar New Year pages matter because the holiday is both culturally expansive and calendar-complex, with reunion travel, school breaks, red-envelope customs, and temple visits all tied to a movable Gregorian date. In the current dataset this holiday is only listed for China.
Dates draw from the curated holiday catalog (tracked window 2025-2027); cultural context comes from the source-cited curation library when an entry exists.
Holiday details
Local statutory mode, country coverage, date rule, timezone spread, and related planning context for Chinese New Year (Spring Festival).
Primary calendar
China · Public
Cultural family
East Asian lunar festival · East Asia
Observed scope
Nationwide observance
Coverage reach
1 country in the current holiday dataset
Timezone context
Asia/Urumqi (UTC+06:00), Asia/Shanghai (UTC+08:00)
Next date signal
February 6, 2027 · Saturday
Forward window
2025: January 29, 2025 · 2026: February 17, 2026 · 2027: February 6, 2027
Related planning set
Dragon Boat Festival · Mid-Autumn Festival · New Year's Day
Regional spread
Asia 1
Reference posture
5 source-cited dossier references plus catalog dates
Holiday data fingerprint
The rows below are built from this holiday's actual route, country, local-name, date, rule, timezone, observed-country, and adjacent-calendar records. They make Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) in China distinct from holidays with similar names or the same season.
Route identity
chinese-new-year-spring-festival · Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) · China · CN
Local name and scope
春节 · Public · nationwide
Rule and family
East Asian lunar festival · East Asia · lunar / lunisolar
Country/date clusters
February 6, 2027 (1)
Observed type mix
Public: 1
Forward date window
2027: February 6, 2027 (Saturday)
Timezone anchor
Asia/Urumqi · Asia/Urumqi (UTC+06:00), Asia/Shanghai (UTC+08:00)
Calendar neighbors
previous: New Year's Day (36 days before) · next: Labour Day (84 days after)
Source depth
5 curated source citations plus catalog dates
Closure and planning risk register
The practical risk is not just the date. Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) can affect closure expectations, bridge-day leave, country-specific substitutions, cross-border date drift, and timezone reminders differently in each jurisdiction.
Date confidence
Catalog onlyChinese New Year (Spring Festival) uses tracked catalog rows for the visible forward window. lunar / lunisolar holidays stay inside the source window when extrapolation would be risky.
Bridge-day pressure
SaturdayChinese New Year (Spring Festival) next falls on February 6, 2027 (Saturday). Weekend-substitution risk is the main scheduling question; check whether local law grants a weekday substitute.
Cross-border drift
Local onlyChinese New Year (Spring Festival) is effectively a China detail page in this dataset; local rules matter more than international comparison.
Timezone handling
Multi-zoneChina has 2 timezone entries in the country record, so national observance dates should be converted through the correct city or zone for reminders.
Source posture
DossierChinese New Year (Spring Festival) has 5 curated source citations rendered on the page, plus catalog dates and country metadata.
Source and verification checkpoints
This page keeps the date answer separate from statutory verification. The catalog supplies the tracked date rows; the checkpoints below show which authority, story profile, local specificity, and dossier layer should be reviewed when the holiday affects bookings, payroll, travel, or public-service hours.
Country authority checkpoint
State Council annual holiday-schedule notices; Mainland China make-up working-day notices
Story and rule checkpoint
lunar holiday profile: Lunar New Year pages matter because the holiday is both culturally expansive and calendar-complex, with reunion travel, school breaks, red-envelope customs, and temple visits all tied to a movable Gregorian date.
Local specificity checkpoint
In mainland China, Spring Festival is the formal public-holiday framing of Chinese New Year and is bound to Chunyun, the nationwide travel season before and after the first lunar month. The China-specific planning problem is the statutory holiday block, make-up working days, rail and air-ticket demand, factory shutdowns, and family-return travel across provinces.
Dossier checkpoint
Chinese New Year is the lunar year's beginning — multi-day, family-reunion-centered, scheduled in late January or February. Dragon Boat Festival (端午节) is the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (typically May or June) — a single-day commemorative festival around the poet Qu Yuan, dragon-boat racing, and zongzi rice dumplings. They share a lunisolar calendar but are otherwise unrelated: CNY is the year's longest statutory block and biggest travel event; Dragon Boat is a one-day summer festival with no comparable shutdown impact. Source citations are rendered in the holiday-specific dossier.
Reference stack
- State Council annual holiday-schedule notices
- Mainland China make-up working-day notices
- Korean national holiday calendar
- Lunisolar-calendar references for Seollal and related New Year observances
- Internal curated holiday catalog for tracked date rows
- countries.json and zones.json for country and timezone context
- Wikipedia: Chinese New Year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year)
- PRC State Council annual holiday-schedule notices (gov.cn)
- Hong Kong Government: Statutory Holidays Ordinance
- Singapore Ministry of Manpower: Public Holidays
Reliability and cross-border spread
This block separates the local China holiday answer from two common sources of programmatic-calendar confusion: countries that use the same holiday name on different dates, and future rows that are projected from a rule rather than directly tracked.
Cross-border date spread
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is currently anchored to China in the observed-country dataset, so cross-border date drift is not a major concern on this page.
Projection reliability
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) stays inside the tracked catalog window for forward dates because its lunar / lunisolar rule is not safely extrapolated here. Source posture: 5 curated source citations attached.
Observed next-date clusters
February 6, 2027
1 country · China
Observed type mix across countries
Public1
Local names and country context
Name in China
春节
The local catalog name for China is 春节; the English display name is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival).
Country calendar role
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is recorded in China as a public holiday with nationwide scope.
Other local labels in this holiday family
History and significance
The festival comes from lunisolar calendar traditions in which the new moon opens the first month. In China, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, and diaspora communities, that timing anchors reunion dinners, ancestor rites, household cleaning, debt-settling customs, lantern displays, and one of the world's largest recurring travel periods.
In mainland China, Spring Festival is the formal public-holiday framing of Chinese New Year and is bound to Chunyun, the nationwide travel season before and after the first lunar month.
Its planning footprint is broader than a single public holiday: offices may close for several days, transport systems peak before and after the official date, and cross-border teams often need to account for different local names and substitution rules.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is marked as a nationwide observance in the current China holiday data.
The China-specific planning problem is the statutory holiday block, make-up working days, rail and air-ticket demand, factory shutdowns, and family-return travel across provinces.
Date behavior and next years
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.
Because Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar, the Gregorian date moves significantly each year and statutory recognition often spans several days, so reading the official block is more useful than the headline date.
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 |
Next 1 occurrences and weekday distribution
Rows below come straight from the tracked catalog window (2025-2027). The weekday distribution controls long-weekend math each year.
| Year | Date | Weekday | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | February 6, 2027 | Saturday | Catalog |
Seasonal placement
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) next lands in the winter / year-boundary planning band for China. That matters for school terms, travel season, and whether the holiday sits near year-end, spring religious calendars, summer travel, or autumn civic cycles.
Weekday distribution in this window
Saturday1
How Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is observed
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) sits inside the East Asian lunisolar tradition, which means its Gregorian date moves and its meaning is read through ancestor remembrance, family reunion travel, and seasonal food customs rather than fixed-date civic ceremony.
Searches for Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) usually want the moving Gregorian date, the official statutory holiday block in China, and travel-window awareness because reunion travel reshapes transport for several days.
Cultural family
East Asian lunar festival
Origin region: East Asia
Statutory mode
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is listed as a public holiday in China (nationwide), which usually means government offices, banks, and most schools close.
What makes Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) distinct
Differentiates from neighbors
Chinese New Year is the lunar year's beginning — multi-day, family-reunion-centered, scheduled in late January or February. Dragon Boat Festival (端午节) is the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (typically May or June) — a single-day commemorative festival around the poet Qu Yuan, dragon-boat racing, and zongzi rice dumplings. They share a lunisolar calendar but are otherwise unrelated: CNY is the year's longest statutory block and biggest travel event; Dragon Boat is a one-day summer festival with no comparable shutdown impact.
Religious / civic / cultural context
Chinese New Year is a family-reunion festival with roots in agrarian and folk-religious tradition stretching back over 3,000 years. Core customs: reunion dinner (年夜饭) on New Year's Eve, red envelopes (hongbao / 紅包) given by elders to younger family members, firecrackers and red decorations to scare the mythical Nian beast, ancestral rites, debt settlement before the new year begins, and the 15-day extension culminating in the Lantern Festival (元宵节) on the 15th day. Each year is associated with one of 12 zodiac animals on a 12-year cycle and one of 5 elements on a 60-year cycle. Officially atheist in the PRC since 1949 but the festival's family-reunion meaning was preserved (and even amplified) under post-1980 reforms.
Date rule
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival, Chunjie) is the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese lunisolar calendar. The Gregorian date varies between January 21 and February 20. The official PRC statutory holiday block is typically 7 days (New Year's Eve through the 6th day of the first lunar month), often with adjacent weekend make-up working days.
Planning impact
Mainland China factory shutdowns typically span 10-15 days (statutory + travel + ramp-down) and disrupt global supply chains in apparel, electronics, and shipping. Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges close 1-2 days; mainland exchanges close the full statutory block. Air and rail tickets within China sell out 60+ days in advance; domestic tourism volumes briefly exceed Golden Week (October).
Observance mode by jurisdiction
- Multi-day public holiday (typically 7 days statutory) in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia (1 day statutory plus a 'cuti bersama' joint leave day), Brunei, and the Philippines.
- Public holiday (1-2 days) in South Korea (where it's called Seollal and follows the same lunisolar date) and Vietnam (Tết Nguyên Đán, same calendar, distinct cultural framing).
- Recognized but not a federal public holiday in the United States, Canada, Australia, and most of Europe — observed by Chinese diaspora communities with Chinatown parades, lion dances, and family reunion dinners.
- In mainland China, the surrounding 40-day travel period is called Chunyun — historically the largest annual human migration on Earth, peaking at ~3 billion passenger trips before COVID-19.
Country-specific behavior
Only countries whose pattern departs from the headline observance rule are listed.
Mainland China
7-day statutory block (Chunjie) often paired with weekend make-up working days announced annually by the State Council; Chunyun travel period spans ~40 days.
Taiwan
Statutory holiday block typically 6-9 days (varies year to year by Executive Yuan calendar). Taipei stock exchange closes for the full block.
Hong Kong / Macau
First three days of the lunar new year are statutory public holidays; if any falls on a Sunday, an extra day is added.
Singapore
First two days of Chinese New Year are public holidays. Despite the city's large Chinese-majority population, the statutory block is shorter than in mainland China — Singapore is multi-ethnic and balances Hari Raya, Deepavali, and Christmas.
Malaysia
First two days are federal public holidays; Kelantan and Terengganu (Malay-majority states) observe day 1 only; lion-dance and open-house traditions dominate visible celebration.
Vietnam
Same lunisolar date is observed as Tết Nguyên Đán — the most important holiday of the year; statutory block is 5-9 days set annually by the government.
South Korea
Seollal — same lunar new year date but with Korean cultural framing (sebae bows, tteokguk soup, ancestral rites); 3-day statutory holiday.
United States
Not a federal holiday. California recognizes it as a state holiday (since 2022). Some cities (San Francisco, New York) have official lion-dance parades but offices stay open.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Chinese New Year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year)
- PRC State Council annual holiday-schedule notices (gov.cn)
- Hong Kong Government: Statutory Holidays Ordinance
- Singapore Ministry of Manpower: Public Holidays
- Wikipedia: Chunyun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyun)
Planning notes for teams, travel, and operations
As a East Asian lunar festival sitting in the China calendar, Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) matters for planning because office, bank, and school closures stack on the same day. The next tracked occurrence is February 6, 2027 (Saturday), which controls long-weekend math for that year.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) also appears in other country calendars such as China. Recorded next dates include China on February 6, 2027 — slight differences across borders are common because each country can apply weekend-substitution or regional-only rules to the same nominal holiday.
China spans 2 timezones for planning: Asia/Urumqi (UTC+06:00), Asia/Shanghai (UTC+08:00). Because Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar, the Gregorian date moves significantly each year and statutory recognition often spans several days, so reading the official block is more useful than the headline date. Teams often line Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) up with Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's Day when blocking off the broader holiday window.
Holiday planning depth
What the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) entry signals
A compact read of the holiday catalog row: rule kind, observance scope, country reach, and what curated context (if any) is attached. Useful before deciding whether the headline date alone answers a planning question.
Calendar fingerprint
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is tracked as a public entry in China (nationwide). It reads as a East Asian lunar festival with origins in East Asia; the date follows a lunar / lunisolar rule.
Date and rhythm
Next tracked occurrence is February 6, 2027 (Saturday). Forward dates: 2027: February 6, 2027 (Saturday).
Cross-country reach
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is currently a single-country entry in the dataset, anchored to China. Adjacent planning entries on the same calendar include Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's Day.
Local planning anchor
China spans 2 planning timezones; Asia/Urumqi is the canonical anchor. The page treats the country-level closure rule (public) as the headline operational signal, not a generic public-holiday template.
Curation depth
A curated dossier is attached: 5 source citations accompany this entry, summarized as: Chinese New Year is a family-reunion festival with roots in agrarian and folk-religious tradition stretching back over 3,000 years. Core customs: reunion dinner (年夜饭) on New Year's Eve, red envelopes (hongbao / 紅包) given. Planning impact: Mainland China factory shutdowns typically span 10-15 days (statutory + travel + ramp-down) and disrupt global supply chains in apparel, electronics, and shipping. Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges close 1-2 days; mainland exchanges close the full statutory block. Air and rail tickets within China sell out 60+ days in advance; domestic tourism volumes briefly exceed Golden Week (October).
Distinct from neighbors
Distinguishing it from neighbors: Chinese New Year is the lunar year's beginning — multi-day, family-reunion-centered, scheduled in late January or February. Dragon Boat Festival (端午节) is the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (typically May or June) — a single-day commemorative festival around the poet Qu Yuan, dragon-boat racing, and zongzi rice dumplings. They share a lunisolar calendar but are otherwise unrelated: CNY is the year's longest statutory block and biggest travel event; Dragon Boat is a one-day summer festival with no comparable shutdown impact.
Date rule, in detail
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival, Chunjie) is the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese lunisolar calendar. The Gregorian date varies between January 21 and February 20. The official PRC statutory holiday block is typically 7 days (New Year's Eve through the 6th day of the first lunar month), often with adjacent weekend make-up working days.
Statutory and projection cautions
Weekend substitution is country-specific: China may observe the nominal date, grant a substitute weekday, or apply regional-only rules depending on the statute and year. Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is currently anchored to China in the observed-country dataset, so cross-border date drift is not a major concern on this page. Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) stays inside the tracked catalog window for forward dates because its lunar / lunisolar rule is not safely extrapolated here. Source posture: 5 curated source citations attached.
Local-name context
The local catalog name for China is 春节; the English display name is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival).
Holiday calendars drift year over year as governments revise statutory observance rules; treat the tracked window as a reliable reference and verify the exact local rule before committing to long-range schedules.
Previous and next observed holidays
The closest observed holidays before and after Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) in the Chinacalendar show the local scheduling neighborhood for 2027.
Previous holiday
New Year's Day
January 1, 2027 · Public
36 days before Chinese New Year (Spring Festival); local label: 元旦.
Next holiday
Labour Day
May 1, 2027 · Public
84 days after Chinese New Year (Spring Festival); local label: 劳动节.
Local calendar neighborhood
These are the closest holidays around Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) in the Chinacalendar for 2027. They help separate this guide from holidays in the same season or religious/civic family.
New Year's Day
January 1, 2027 · Public
36 days before Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). Local label: 元旦.
Labour Day
May 1, 2027 · Public
84 days after Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). Local label: 劳动节.
Dragon Boat Festival
June 9, 2027 · Public
123 days after Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). Local label: 端午节.
Mid-Autumn Festival
September 15, 2027 · Public
221 days after Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). Local label: 中秋节.
National Day
October 1, 2027 · Public
237 days after Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). Local label: 国庆节.
Observed countries and regions
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is only listed for China in the current dataset.
Asia
1 country
Country-by-country timing snapshot
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is currently a single-country entry, so the next-date row below is the operational anchor for China.
| Country | Next date | Type |
|---|---|---|
| China | February 6, 2027 | Public |
Related holidays in China
Related links are selected from the same country calendar first, with family matches such as Easter-cycle or lunisolar festivals preferred before nearby-date filler.
Dragon Boat Festival
June 19, 2026 · Public
Same lunisolar planning family
Open curated guide
Mid-Autumn Festival
September 25, 2026 · Public
Curated country planning companion
See 2026 calendar
New Year's Day
January 1, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2026 calendar
Labour Day
May 1, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2026 calendar
National Day
October 1, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
Open curated guide
FAQ
Is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) a public holiday in China?▾
Yes — Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is listed as a public holiday in China on a nationwide basis.
When is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) in China in 2027?▾
In 2027, Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) in China falls on February 6, 2027 (Saturday).
How is the date for Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) determined?▾
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. Because Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar, the Gregorian date moves significantly each year and statutory recognition often spans several days, so reading the official block is more useful than the headline date.
What kind of holiday is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)?▾
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is listed as a public holiday in China (nationwide), which usually means government offices, banks, and most schools close. It reads as a East Asian lunar festival with origins tied to East Asia.
What is the local name for Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) in China?▾
The local catalog name for China is 春节; the English display name is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival).
Where is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) observed?▾
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is only listed for China in the current dataset.
What timezone should I use for Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) planning in China?▾
China uses Asia/Urumqi (UTC+06:00), Asia/Shanghai (UTC+08:00) for local planning.
What do people do for Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) in China?▾
Chinese New Year is a family-reunion festival with roots in agrarian and folk-religious tradition stretching back over 3,000 years. Core customs: reunion dinner (年夜饭) on New Year's Eve, red envelopes (hongbao / 紅包) given by elders to younger family members, firecrackers and red decorations to scare the mythical Nian beast, ancestral rites, debt settlement before the new year begins, and the 15-day extension culminating in the Lantern Festival (元宵节) on the 15th day. Each year is associated with one of 12 zodiac animals on a 12-year cycle and one of 5 elements on a 60-year cycle. Officially atheist in the PRC since 1949 but the festival's family-reunion meaning was preserved (and even amplified) under post-1980 reforms. Mainland China factory shutdowns typically span 10-15 days (statutory + travel + ramp-down) and disrupt global supply chains in apparel, electronics, and shipping. Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges close 1-2 days; mainland exchanges close the full statutory block. Air and rail tickets within China sell out 60+ days in advance; domestic tourism volumes briefly exceed Golden Week (October).
How is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) different from related holidays?▾
Chinese New Year is the lunar year's beginning — multi-day, family-reunion-centered, scheduled in late January or February. Dragon Boat Festival (端午节) is the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (typically May or June) — a single-day commemorative festival around the poet Qu Yuan, dragon-boat racing, and zongzi rice dumplings. They share a lunisolar calendar but are otherwise unrelated: CNY is the year's longest statutory block and biggest travel event; Dragon Boat is a one-day summer festival with no comparable shutdown impact.
Which holidays are commonly planned alongside Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)?▾
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is often compared with Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Day on the China calendar.