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Import calendar 2027, every holiday and order deadline in one table

Every forwarder publishes the holiday list and stops at order early. This is the whole year on one page, with the dates that are certain kept apart from the ones that are still a government decision away.

Marcus VolstedCo-founder, Restocio Published 21 October 20269 min read

Every source on this page was opened and read, and each one is dated in the Sources section at the foot.

Chinese New Year 2027 falls on Saturday 6 February, Golden Week opens on Friday 1 October and Black Friday is Friday 26 November. Those dates are fixed. How many days China's factories officially close around each one is not, because that comes from a State Council notice published each November, and on 10 October 2026 the 2027 notice does not exist yet. So this table carries two kinds of row, confirmed and expected, and marks each one in the table rather than in a footnote.

What is settled and what is still pending

Three different things get called "the holiday dates", and they are settled at three different times. The fixed-date holidays, 1 January, 1 May and 1 October, never move. The lunar ones, Chinese New Year, Qingming, Dragon Boat and Mid-Autumn, are calendar arithmetic, and the Hong Kong SAR Government gazetted its 2027 list on 15 May 2026, which is where every lunar date below comes from.

The third thing is the block, meaning how many consecutive days off each holiday gets and which weekends are worked to make it. That is a decision of the State Council General Office, published one notice at a time. The 2026 notice came out on 4 November 2025 and the 2025 notice on 12 November 2024, so expect the 2027 one in November 2026. Until then the block column shows last year's block as the pattern and says "expected". We will update this page when the notice lands.

Vietnam is further ahead. Its Government Office approved the 2027 Tet break for the state workforce on 2 October 2026, per the Vietnam News Agency. Factories set their own days within the labour code, so treat it as a floor.

The year in one table

Order by, per freight mode

The forwarders' lists stop here. The useful version subtracts a lead time per mode from the day you need stock on the shelf. The dates below use Restocio's default door-to-door days, sea 70, truck 25, rail 20 and air 5, which already include clearance and the inland leg and do not include production. If your goods are made to order, subtract the production run again, on every mode, because a plane cannot carry what the factory has not made.

Our 70-day sea default is a door-to-door figure, so it is longer than a port-to-port transit. Forto, read on 10 October 2026, puts China to Europe at 30 to 45 days and more by sea, 14 to 25 by rail and 4 to 7 by air, with Cape of Good Hope routing adding an estimated 10 to 15 days. The gap between those figures and 70 is the part of a lead time that nobody counts.

Factory closures work the other way round

For a closure the mode does not decide whether you beat it, because production sits ahead of every route. It decides how long you wait on the far side. Two dates matter, the last order the factory finishes before it winds down, and the day the first post-holiday shipment lands by each mode. The windows here are the ones the app warns on, and they are approximate by design.

Read the sea cell on the first row twice. A container that misses the January cut-off and ships on the first day back is a May delivery, which is why the Chinese New Year post sizes the gap in units rather than telling you to order early. Its forwarder window runs to mid March, later than the app's 24 February, and for made-to-order goods the later date is the honest one. The arrival dates assume the factory ships on the first day back with no backlog, which it will not.

What the app does with this calendar

Less than the table above, and it is better to say so. Restocio holds two curated holiday calendars and both are display only. One is keyed to the supplier's country and shows a hint on the supplier card and the replenishment card for Chinese New Year, Golden Week, Tet and Diwali, with windows set by hand for each year through 2028. The other watches your order deadline and warns when it lands inside a shutdown, using a window of two weeks either side of 6 February and the week before Golden Week through the days after. For 2027 those two files open the Chinese New Year window a week apart, 23 January and 30 January, which tells you how approximate both are.

Neither warning moves a deadline or a quantity. The order deadline is your days of stock minus the lead time and safety days, the same arithmetic as on every other day of the year, and nothing in the ordering engine knows what a Golden Week or a factory closure is. A demand spike is different: since 2026-10-16, Demand lets you mark a dated event, such as Black Friday, as its own row, and that raises the main order for the days it covers without moving the deadline. If you want the plan to see a closure instead, the days go into that supplier's production days for the cycle that spans it, which the Chinese New Year post walks through on top of the production-days rule in the replenishment guide. The lunar dates behind the app's 2027 windows are the same ones gazetted above, so the State Council notice cannot move them, only the official days off around them.

What to re-check when the notice lands

Every "expected" cell in the first table. The two that can change an import plan are the Spring Festival block, how many days it runs and which Saturdays get worked, and the Golden Week swaps, which decide whether the week before 1 October is a full working week at the factory. The rest are long weekends. The dates themselves will not move, so any order placed on this page's timings before November stays right. Ask your factory for its own closing and reopening dates in writing all the same, since a factory's holiday is longer than the government's and no notice covers it.

Common questions

Has China published the official 2027 public holiday schedule yet?

Not as of 10 October 2026. The State Council General Office publishes the holiday arrangement notice for the coming year in November, the 2026 notice on 4 November 2025 and the 2025 notice on 12 November 2024. Until the 2027 notice appears, the dates of each holiday are known but the number of consecutive days off and the weekend swaps are not, and this page marks those as expected.

When is Chinese New Year 2027?

Saturday 6 February 2027, as gazetted in the Hong Kong SAR Government's 2027 general holidays on 15 May 2026. The mainland holiday block around it is not yet published. In 2026 it was nine days, 15 to 23 February, with two Saturdays worked. Factories slow for weeks before the date and ramp for weeks after it, which is the part that costs money.

When is Golden Week 2027 and how long do factories close?

National Day is Friday 1 October 2027, a fixed date. The 2026 block was seven days, 1 to 7 October, with 20 September and 10 October worked as swap days, and the 2027 block is pending the State Council notice. The week before it is when everything ships, so a sea order that has to be on your shelf for Christmas is due before it opens.

Is Vietnam an escape from Chinese New Year?

No. Tet 2027 falls on the same day, Saturday 6 February. Vietnam's Government Office approved a seven-day break for the state workforce, Thursday 4 to Wednesday 10 February 2027, on 2 October 2026. Factories set their own days within the labour code, so ask your Vietnamese supplier for theirs and treat the state break as a floor.

When is Black Friday 2027?

Friday 26 November 2027, the day after the fourth Thursday of November, with Cyber Monday on 29 November. For stock to be on the shelf a week before, on Restocio's default door-to-door days a sea order is due around 10 September, truck 25 October, rail 30 October and air 14 November, before any production run.

Does Restocio plan around these holidays automatically?

No. It shows two display-only warnings, a hint on the supplier card for Chinese New Year, Golden Week, Tet and Diwali by the supplier's country, and a warning when your order deadline lands inside a shutdown window. Neither moves a deadline or a quantity. To make the plan see a closure you add the closed days to that supplier's production days for the cycle that spans it.

Sources

Every source below was opened and read on the date shown against it. Rules, rates and schedules change, so check the current page before you act on a number that matters. If anything here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

• Hong Kong SAR Government, General holidays for 2027 published (15 May 2026) (read 10 October 2026)
• Xinhua, authorised release of the State Council General Office notice on the 2026 holiday arrangements (4 November 2025) (read 10 October 2026)
• People's Daily, print edition of 13 November 2024, reproducing the State Council General Office notice on the 2025 holiday arrangements (issued 12 November 2024) (read 10 October 2026)
• VietnamPlus (Vietnam News Agency), Tet and National Day 2027 holiday plan approved, Government Office document 10065/VPCP-KGVX (2 October 2026) (read 10 October 2026)
• Forto, Shipping from China to Europe in 2026 (read 10 October 2026)
• AJOT, relay of a CMA CGM peak season surcharge notice, Asia to North Europe (21 May 2026). Cited for the timing of such notices only; the carrier's own page was not opened (read 10 October 2026)

Marcus Volsted

Co-founder, Restocio

Marcus co-founded Restocio and works on it daily with a Swedish importer who plans their purchasing in it every working day. Restocio is built in Sweden by two founders, one Swedish and one Danish, and Marcus is the Danish one. Why we are building it.

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