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🇨🇳 Festivals in China

64 festivals celebrated in China, across 14 cities and towns.

Cities and towns

Beijing 7 Shanghai 6 Nanjing 2 Guangzhou 1 Harbin 1 Hong Kong 1 Macau 1 Ningbo 1 Qingdao 1 Shaoxing 1 Suzhou 1 Yulin 1 Zhoushan 1 Zhuhai 1

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October 2026 1

Cultural 18Oct Double Ninth Festival🇨🇳 China and 7 more countriesIn 2 weeks

November 2026 2

Cultural 11Nov Singles' Day🇨🇳 China and 6 more countriesIn 6 weeks

Cultural 27Nov Buy Nothing Day🇨🇦 Canada and 8 more countriesIn 8 weeks

February 2027 1

Cultural 21Feb Lantern Festival🇨🇳 China and 8 more countries

March 2027 1

Cultural 14Mar White Day🇨🇳 China and 4 more countries

April 2027 1

Cultural 4Apr Qingming Festival🇨🇳 China and 11 more countries

June 2027 2

Cultural 9Jun Dragon Boat Festival🇨🇳 China and 6 more countries

Cultural 21Jun International Day of Yoga🇨🇳 China and 6 more countries

August 2027 1

Cultural 8Aug Qixi Festival🇨🇳 China and 4 more countries

September 2027 1

Cultural 18Sep Software Freedom Day🇨🇳 China

Usually in December, date not yet confirmed 1

Cultural Decvaries Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival🇨🇳 Harbin, China

Usually in April, date not yet confirmed 1

Cultural Aprvaries Water Festival🇰🇭 Cambodia and 7 more countries

Usually in June, date not yet confirmed 1

Cultural Junvaries Sabantuy🇷🇺 Russia and 8 more countries

Usually in August, date not yet confirmed 1

Cultural Augvaries Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 6 more countries

Shared with much of the world

Celebrated in China and in many other countries.

February 2027 1

Cultural 7Feb Chinese New Year🇨🇳 China and 30 more countries

April 2027 1

Cultural 22Apr Earth Day🇦🇱 Albania and 29 more countries

Usually in June, date not yet confirmed 2

Cultural Junvaries Father's Day🇩🇿 Algeria and 45 more countries

Cultural Junvaries Children's Day🇦🇲 Armenia and 30 more countries

Usually in September, date not yet confirmed 1

Cultural Sepvaries Oktoberfest🇩🇪 Germany and 13 more countries

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

White Day: Flickr user mersy ( Masashi Yanagiya), CC BY-SA 2.0, source
International Day of Yoga: Tobias Spitaler, CC BY 3.0, source
Sabantuy: Якупов Рамиль, CC BY 3.0, source
Children's Day: Post of USSR, Public domain, source
Lantern Festival: -Zest, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Earth Day: John McConnell (flag designer) NASA (Earth photograph) SiBr4 (flag ima, Public domain, source
Water Festival: Htoo Tay Zar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Software Freedom Day: VulcanSphere, CC BY 4.0, source
Double Ninth Festival: Sgerbic, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Father's Day: Jjsarto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Chinese New Year: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Oktoberfest: Heribert Pohl, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Dragon Boat Festival: After Wen Jia, Public domain, source
Qingming Festival: Jacklee ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Qixi Festival: shizhao ( talk )拍摄，画者不明, Public domain, source
Singles' Day: Chrionexfleckeri1350, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Buy Nothing Day: Brave New Films, CC BY 2.0, source
Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival: Original uploader was LiYan at zh.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: xlibber, CC BY 2.0, source

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