China has seven public holidays in 2033. The two long breaks are Spring Festival, January 30 to February 6, and National Day Golden Week, October 1 to 7. Chinese New Year falls on Monday, January 31, and begins the Year of the Water Ox 癸丑牛年. These are expected dates.
Expected
| 祝日 | Festival day | Expected days off |
|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day元旦 Yuándàn | Sat, Jan 1 | Jan 1–33 days, Sat to Mon |
| Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)春节 Chūnjié | Mon, Jan 31 | Jan 30–Feb 68 days, Sun to Sun |
| Qingming Festival清明节 QīngmíngjiéTomb-Sweeping Day | Mon, Apr 4 | Apr 2–43 days, Sat to Mon |
| Labor Day劳动节 Láodòngjié | Sun, May 1 | May 1–55 days, Sun to Thu |
| Dragon Boat Festival端午节 Duānwǔjié | Wed, Jun 1 | Jun 11 day, Wednesday |
| Mid-Autumn Festival中秋节 Zhōngqiūjié | Thu, Sep 8 | Sep 8–103 days, Thu to Sat |
| National Day (Golden Week)国庆节 Guóqìngjié | Sat, Oct 1 | Oct 1–77 days, Sat to Fri |
These are expected dates, worked out from the lunar calendar and the holiday rules in force since 2025. The State Council publishes the official schedule, with its make-up working days 调休 tiáoxiū, around November 2032. Use these breaks to plan, and confirm before you book.
This chart shows the same dates as the table, month by month.
These are the traditional festivals, solar terms and commemorative days people mark in China. Most are not days off. A few give a half day to one group, and Guangxi, where CLI is, gives two days off for Sanyuesan.
| 日付 | 祝日 | 備考 |
|---|---|---|
| Sat, Jan 8 | Laba Festival腊八节 Làbājié | Traditional festival: laba porridge |
| Mon, Feb 14 | Lantern Festival元宵节 Yuánxiāojié | Traditional festival: ends the New Year season |
| Tue, Mar 8 | International Women's Day妇女节 Fùnǚjié | Half day off for women |
| Sat, Mar 12 | Arbor Day植树节 Zhíshùjié | Tree-planting day |
| Sun, Mar 20 | Spring Equinox春分 Chūnfēn | 節気 |
| Sat, Apr 2 | Sanyuesan Festival三月三 Sānyuèsān | Two days off in Guangxi, where CLI is (expected Apr 2–3) |
| Wed, May 4 | Youth Day青年节 Qīngniánjié | Half day off for ages 14 to 28 |
| Wed, Jun 1 | Children's Day儿童节 Értóngjié | Day off for children under 14 |
| Tue, Jun 21 | Summer Solstice夏至 Xiàzhì | 節気 |
| 日付 | 祝日 | 備考 |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Jul 1 | CPC Founding Day建党节 Jiàndǎngjié | Founding of the Communist Party of China, 1921 |
| Mon, Aug 1 | Army Day建军节 Jiànjūnjié | Half day off for active military |
| Mon, Aug 1 | Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day)七夕节 Qīxījié | 伝統的な祭り |
| Tue, Aug 9 | Ghost Festival中元节 Zhōngyuánjié | 伝統的な祭り |
| Sat, Sep 10 | Teachers' Day教师节 Jiàoshījié | Students thank their teachers |
| Fri, Sep 23 | Autumn Equinox秋分 Qiūfēn | Solar term; also Farmers' Harvest Festival |
| Sat, Oct 1 | Double Ninth Festival重阳节 Chóngyángjié | Traditional festival; Seniors' Day |
| Fri, Nov 11 | Singles' Day双十一 Shuāngshíyī | Shopping festival |
| Wed, Dec 21 | Winter Solstice冬至 Dōngzhì | Solar term and family festival |
Video (2:22). Why one student came back to Guilin to keep learning Chinese at CLI. The building with the lanterns is the CLI Center.
The Chinese Language Institute (CLI) is a Chinese school in Guilin, the city of karst hills and rivers in southern China. Students take one-on-one lessons with their own team of teachers and live the language outside class.
The festivals on this calendar are part of the year here. Before Spring Festival, students fold dumplings with their teachers. For the Dragon Boat Festival they wrap 粽子 zòngzi, sticky rice in bamboo leaves, and at Mid-Autumn everyone sits down to dinner together.
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China has 13 statutory days off a year, spread over seven holidays: one day for New Year's Day, four for Spring Festival (New Year's Eve and the first three days of the lunar year), one for Qingming, two for Labor Day, one each for the Dragon Boat and Mid-Autumn festivals, and three for National Day.
Those days are then joined to weekends to make longer breaks. Since 2025 the rules give a Spring Festival break of eight days from New Year's Eve (in 2026 it ran nine, taking in the Sunday before a Monday Eve, and this page assumes the same for later years), seven days for National Day from October 1 (eight when the Mid-Autumn Festival falls inside it) and five days for Labor Day. The other four holidays become a three-day weekend, unless the holiday falls on a Wednesday, when only that day is off.
The 2033 dates on this page come from those rules. Applied to 2025 and 2026, they give exactly the breaks the State Council set, but a future notice can still differ by a day or so. Check the official schedule before you book travel.
New Year's Day, Labor Day and National Day follow the Western calendar. Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival follow the Chinese lunar calendar, so they move by up to a month from one year to the next. Qingming follows the solar terms, and falls on April 4 or 5.
In 2033, Chinese New Year's Eve 除夕 chúxī is Sunday, January 30, and the first day of the Year of the Ox is January 31.
Spring Festival brings the world's largest yearly migration, the travel rush 春运 chūnyùn, which runs for about 40 days, roughly January 16 to February 24 in 2033. Train tickets home sell out within minutes. Golden Week in October is the busiest week for domestic tourism, and scenic spots such as Guilin's Li River are at their most crowded.
Shops and restaurants mostly stay open over the holidays, apart from the first days of Spring Festival, when many small businesses close while their owners go home. Government offices and banks close for the whole break.
CLI's class calendar follows the national holidays, with a few differences, and is set once the official schedule is out. If your program overlaps a closure, you can make up each missed class day at no extra cost, by extending your program, taking the hours online, or adding hours to other days. Ask CLI's admissions team for the calendar for your dates.
Chinese New Year falls on Monday, January 31, 2033. It begins the Year of the Water Ox. The public holiday is expected to run 8 days, from January 30 to February 6.
National Day is October 1. The Golden Week break is expected to run 7 days, from October 1 to 7.
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Thursday, September 8, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
Not yet. The State Council usually publishes the next year's schedule in early November, so the 2033 notice is expected in November 2032. The dates on this page follow the current rules and will be updated when it is out.
CLI closes for each public holiday, but its calendar is not the same as the national one. Some national days off are class days at CLI, and the Spring Festival closure can run longer. Missed class days can be made up at no extra cost. How CLI handles holidays.
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