Hooray! The 2025 official Chinese public holiday calendar has been released with an additional 2 days public holidays. Let’s see what we have to look forward to.  Below is our official UniEdu Calendar, right click and save to download. 

A Brief Explanation of China’s Public Holiday Calendar

As you can see on the calendar below, the dates in blue represent China’s public holidays spread across workdays and weekends totaling 28 days. Minus weekends, that totals 18 public holidays that fall on working days. In China we have what we call ‘make-up days’ or ‘adjusted workdays’ that compensate for the amount of public holidays we take off. So occasionally this must be balanced out and we have to work on some weekend days. The 5 ‘make-up days’ for next year are highlighted in yellow above, so there are essentially 13 workdays off. But international students don’t need to worry about work although you may need to attend classes on some of the adjusted work days, please check with you school.

There are 7 Chinese public holidays in China which are as follows. 

New Year’s Day – 1^st January: 1 Day off

Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) – 28^th Jan – 4^th Feb: 6 working days off 

*Make-up workdays on 26^th Jan and 8^th Feb. 

Qingming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Festival) – 4^th April – 6^th April: 1 working day off

Labor Day – 1^st May – 5^th May: 3 working days off 

*Make-up workday on 27^th April

Dragon Boat Festival – 31^st May – 2^nd June: 1 working day off

Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day – 1^st October – 8^th October: 6 working days off *Make-up workdays on 28^th Sept and 11^th Oct. 

With so many public holidays in China coupled with winter and summer vacation, there is ample opportunity for international students to travel around the vast country and immerse yourself in Chinese culture, making the middle kingdom a top Study in China destination. 

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