Business Days in December 2026 for China
December 2026 has 23 working days under the Chinese national holiday calendar. December 2026 contains no Chinese national holidays on a weekday. The month covers 31 calendar days, of which 8 are Saturday and Sunday. That count drives invoice cycles, payroll runs, and any contract that defines deadlines as a number of working days in China.
working days
23
Calendar Days
31
Weekend Days
8
public holidays
0
Work Weeks
4.6
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 wknd | ||
6 wknd | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 wknd |
13 wknd | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 wknd |
20 wknd | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 wknd |
27 wknd | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
public holidays in December 2026
No Chinese national holidays fall on a weekday in December 2026, so the month loses no working day to a holiday on this calendar.
China December deadlines
The VAT return and the Enterprise Income Tax prepayment for a period that ended in November are due within 15 days of the period ending, which is 15 December. Statutory rest days can move that date: in its notice for 2026 the State Taxation Administration applied article 109 of the implementing rules of the Tax Collection Administration Law, under which a last day that is a statutory rest day gives way to the day after the rest and three or more consecutive rest days inside the period extend it by those days. For December 2026 that notice keeps the 15th. Articles 2 and 3 of the Public Holiday Measures name no holiday in December. The next is New Year's Day, one statutory day on 1 January, and the days off around it come from the year's notice: three for 2026 (1 to 3 January 2026) and Wednesday 1 January alone for 2025. A financial year that ends on 31 December starts the four months that rule 5.2.2 of the Shanghai Stock Exchange's stock listing rules gives a listed company for its annual report, and the tax year, which article 53 of the Enterprise Income Tax Law ends on 31 December, starts the five months that article 54 gives for the annual return and final settlement.
Sources for these dates
- 全国年节及纪念日放假办法（国令第795号，自2025年1月1日起施行）第二条 全体公民放假的节日：元旦，放假1天（1月1日）；春节，放假4天（农历除夕、正月初一至初三）；清明节，放假1天（农历清明当日）；劳动节，放假2天（5月1日、2日）；端午节，放假1天（农历端午当日）；中秋节，放假1天（农历中秋当日）；国庆节，放假3天（10月1日至3日）。第三条 部分公民放假的节日及纪念日：妇女节（3月8日），妇女放假半天；青年节（5月4日），14周岁以上的青年放假半天；儿童节（6月1日），不满14周岁的少年儿童放假1天；中国人民解放军建军纪念日（8月1日），现役军人放假半天。第六条 全体公民放假的假日，如果适逢周六、周日，应当在工作日补假 (国务院 (State Council of the People's Republic of China))
- 国务院办公厅关于2026年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2025〕7号，2025年11月4日）：经国务院批准；元旦1月1日至3日放假调休，共3天，1月4日（周日）上班；春节2月15日至23日放假调休，共9天，2月14日（周六）、2月28日（周六）上班；清明节4月4日至6日放假，共3天；劳动节5月1日至5日放假调休，共5天，5月9日（周六）上班；端午节6月19日至21日放假，共3天；中秋节9月25日至27日放假，共3天；国庆节10月1日至7日放假调休，共7天，9月20日（周日）、10月10日（周六）上班 (国务院办公厅 (General Office of the State Council))
- 国务院办公厅关于2025年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2024〕12号，2024年11月12日）：自2025年1月1日起，全体公民放假的假日增加2天，其中春节、劳动节各增加1天；除个别特殊情形外，春节自农历除夕起放假调休8天，国庆节自10月1日起放假调休7天，劳动节放假调休5天，元旦、清明节、端午节、中秋节分别放假调休或连休3天（如逢周三则只在当日放假），国庆节放假如逢中秋节则合并放假8天；元旦1月1日（周三）放假1天，不调休；春节1月28日（农历除夕、周二）至2月4日放假调休，共8天；端午节5月31日（周六）至6月2日（周一）放假，共3天；国庆节、中秋节10月1日（周三）至8日（周三）放假调休，共8天 (国务院办公厅 (General Office of the State Council))
- 中华人民共和国增值税法（2024年12月25日通过，自2026年1月1日起施行）第三十条：增值税的计税期间分别为十日、十五日、一个月或者一个季度。纳税人的具体计税期间，由主管税务机关根据纳税人应纳税额的大小分别核定。纳税人以一个月或者一个季度为一个计税期间的，自期满之日起十五日内申报纳税；以十日或者十五日为一个计税期间的，自次月一日起十五日内申报纳税 (全国人民代表大会常务委员会 / 国家税务总局政策法规库 (Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; text in the State Taxation Administration's law database))
- 中华人民共和国企业所得税法（2007年3月16日通过，2017年2月24日第一次修正，2018年12月29日第二次修正）第五十四条：企业所得税分月或者分季预缴。企业应当自月份或者季度终了之日起十五日内，向税务机关报送预缴企业所得税纳税申报表，预缴税款。企业应当自年度终了之日起五个月内，向税务机关报送年度企业所得税纳税申报表，并汇算清缴，结清应缴应退税款 (全国人民代表大会 / 国家税务总局政策法规库 (National People's Congress; text in the State Taxation Administration's law database))
- 中华人民共和国税收征收管理法实施细则（2002年9月7日国务院令第362号公布，2016年2月6日第三次修订）第一百零九条：税收征管法及本细则所规定期限的最后一日是法定休假日的，以休假日期满的次日为期限的最后一日；在期限内有连续3日以上法定休假日的，按休假日天数顺延 (国务院 / 国务院公报 (State Council; State Council Gazette))
- 国家税务总局办公厅关于明确2026年度申报纳税期限的通知（税总办征科函〔2025〕64号，2025年12月10日）：根据《中华人民共和国税收征收管理法实施细则》第一百零九条规定，结合《国务院办公厅关于2026年部分节假日安排的通知》，实行每月或者每季度期满后15日内申报纳税的各税种2026年度申报纳税期限：6月、7月、9月、12月截至当月15日；1月顺延至1月20日，2月至2月24日，3月至3月16日，4月至4月20日，5月至5月22日，8月至8月17日，10月至10月26日，11月至11月16日 (国家税务总局办公厅 (General Office of the State Taxation Administration))
- 上海证券交易所股票上市规则（2026年4月修订，上证发〔2026〕42号，2026年4月24日生效；规则正文见该页附件1）第5.2.2条：上市公司应当在每个会计年度结束后4个月内披露年度报告，应当在每个会计年度的上半年结束后2个月内披露半年度报告，应当在每个会计年度前3个月、前9个月结束后1个月内披露季度报告。公司第一季度季度报告的披露时间不得早于上一年度的年度报告披露时间 (上海证券交易所 (Shanghai Stock Exchange))
Checked October 14, 2026. All sources
Day-of-Week Distribution
The count of each weekday in December 2026. Useful for shift scheduling, weekly recurring billing, and any rota that depends on a specific day of the week landing in-month.
| Day | Count |
|---|---|
| Monday | 4 |
| Tuesday | 5 |
| Wednesday | 5 |
| Thursday | 5 |
| Friday | 4 |
| Saturday | 4 |
| Sunday | 4 |
China reporting cycles and business-day rules
Chinese tax filing periods are not all monthly. Article 30 of the VAT Law (增值税法, in force since 1 January 2026) sets tax periods of ten days, fifteen days, one month or one quarter, fixed for each taxpayer by its tax authority; a taxpayer on a monthly or quarterly period files and pays within 15 days of the period ending. Article 43 of the Law's implementing regulations opens the quarterly period to small-scale taxpayers, to banks, finance companies, trust companies and credit cooperatives among general taxpayers, and to other taxpayers determined by the State Council's tax and finance authorities. Enterprise Income Tax (企业所得税) is prepaid monthly or quarterly as the tax authority determines (article 127 of the implementing regulations as revised in 2024), with the prepayment return due within 15 days of the month or quarter ending and the annual return and final settlement within five months of the year ending (article 54 of the Enterprise Income Tax Law). The annual settlement of individual income tax on comprehensive income is done between 1 March and 30 June of the following year (article 5 of State Taxation Administration Order No. 57 of 2025). A rest day can move these dates: under article 109 of the implementing rules of the Tax Collection Administration Law, a period whose last day is a statutory rest day ends on the day after the rest, and a period containing three or more consecutive statutory rest days is extended by those days. For 2026 the General Office of the State Taxation Administration applied that article to the year's holiday notice and fixed each month's filing deadline in its notice of 10 December 2025 (税总办征科函〔2025〕64号). Payment systems keep their own calendars: the People's Bank of China sets the hours of the High Value Payment System (大额支付系统), with separate arrangements for weekends and statutory holidays, and the operator of CIPS, the cross-border renminbi payment system, publishes that system's working calendar (article 15 of its Business Rules, in force since 1 February 2026). Holidays come in two layers. Article 2 of the State Council's holiday Measures (全国年节及纪念日放假办法) gives all citizens thirteen days off across the year, and for each of the years 2024 to 2026 the General Office of the State Council issued a notice with that year's arrangement: the days taken off and the Saturdays and Sundays worked in exchange. Where a year of this site's China data names no notice, its dates are this site's own projections, to be checked against that year's notice once it is issued.
Sources for these rules
- 中华人民共和国增值税法（2024年12月25日通过，自2026年1月1日起施行）第三十条：增值税的计税期间分别为十日、十五日、一个月或者一个季度。纳税人的具体计税期间，由主管税务机关根据纳税人应纳税额的大小分别核定。纳税人以一个月或者一个季度为一个计税期间的，自期满之日起十五日内申报纳税；以十日或者十五日为一个计税期间的，自次月一日起十五日内申报纳税 (全国人民代表大会常务委员会 / 国家税务总局政策法规库 (Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; text in the State Taxation Administration's law database))
- 中华人民共和国增值税法实施条例（自2026年1月1日起施行）第四十三条：下列纳税人可以适用增值税法第三十条规定的以一个季度为一个计税期间：（一）小规模纳税人；（二）一般纳税人中的银行、财务公司、信托公司、信用社；（三）国务院税务、财政主管部门确定的其他纳税人 (国务院 (State Council of the People's Republic of China))
- 中华人民共和国企业所得税法（2007年3月16日通过，2017年2月24日第一次修正，2018年12月29日第二次修正）第五十四条：企业所得税分月或者分季预缴。企业应当自月份或者季度终了之日起十五日内，向税务机关报送预缴企业所得税纳税申报表，预缴税款。企业应当自年度终了之日起五个月内，向税务机关报送年度企业所得税纳税申报表，并汇算清缴，结清应缴应退税款 (全国人民代表大会 / 国家税务总局政策法规库 (National People's Congress; text in the State Taxation Administration's law database))
- 中华人民共和国企业所得税法实施条例（2007年12月6日国务院令第512号公布，2019年4月23日第一次修订，2024年12月6日第二次修订）第一百二十七条：企业所得税分月或者分季预缴，由税务机关具体核定 (国务院 / 国家税务总局政策法规库 (State Council; text in the State Taxation Administration's law database))
- 个人所得税综合所得汇算清缴管理办法（2025年2月26日国家税务总局令第57号公布，自公布之日起施行）第五条：纳税人应当在取得综合所得的纳税年度的次年三月一日至六月三十日内办理汇算清缴 (国家税务总局 (State Taxation Administration))
- 中华人民共和国税收征收管理法实施细则（2002年9月7日国务院令第362号公布，2016年2月6日第三次修订）第一百零九条：税收征管法及本细则所规定期限的最后一日是法定休假日的，以休假日期满的次日为期限的最后一日；在期限内有连续3日以上法定休假日的，按休假日天数顺延 (国务院 / 国务院公报 (State Council; State Council Gazette))
- 国家税务总局办公厅关于明确2026年度申报纳税期限的通知（税总办征科函〔2025〕64号，2025年12月10日）：根据《中华人民共和国税收征收管理法实施细则》第一百零九条规定，结合《国务院办公厅关于2026年部分节假日安排的通知》，实行每月或者每季度期满后15日内申报纳税的各税种2026年度申报纳税期限：6月、7月、9月、12月截至当月15日；1月顺延至1月20日，2月至2月24日，3月至3月16日，4月至4月20日，5月至5月22日，8月至8月17日，10月至10月26日，11月至11月16日 (国家税务总局办公厅 (General Office of the State Taxation Administration))
- 关于大额支付系统延长运行时间的通知（2026年7月28日）：中国人民银行决定自2026年10月17日起，大额支付系统运行服务时间由“5×21+12小时”延长至“5×22.5+13.5小时”；自2026年10月19日起，法定工作日开始受理业务的时间由前一日20:30调整为前一日19:00，日终时间保持当日17:30不变；在周末及法定节假日期间，大额支付系统继续执行特殊工作日相关安排 (中国人民银行清算总中心 (China National Clearing Center, People's Bank of China))
- 人民币跨境支付系统业务规则（银发〔2025〕248号印发，自2026年2月1日起施行）第四条：CIPS为其参与者的跨境和离岸人民币支付业务、金融市场业务等提供资金清算、结算服务；第十五条：运营机构应当及时公布CIPS工作日历和运行时序 (中国人民银行 (People's Bank of China))
- 全国年节及纪念日放假办法（国令第795号，自2025年1月1日起施行）第二条 全体公民放假的节日：元旦，放假1天（1月1日）；春节，放假4天（农历除夕、正月初一至初三）；清明节，放假1天（农历清明当日）；劳动节，放假2天（5月1日、2日）；端午节，放假1天（农历端午当日）；中秋节，放假1天（农历中秋当日）；国庆节，放假3天（10月1日至3日）。第六条 全体公民放假的假日，如果适逢周六、周日，应当在工作日补假。第七条 全体公民放假的假日，可合理安排统一放假调休 (国务院 (State Council of the People's Republic of China))
- 国务院办公厅关于2024年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2023〕7号，2023年10月25日）：经国务院批准；春节2月10日至17日放假调休，共8天；国庆节10月1日至7日放假调休，共7天 (国务院办公厅 (General Office of the State Council))
- 国务院办公厅关于2025年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2024〕12号，2024年11月12日）：除个别特殊情形外，春节自农历除夕起放假调休8天，国庆节自10月1日起放假调休7天；元旦、清明节、端午节、中秋节分别放假调休或连休3天（如逢周三则只在当日放假）；2025年春节1月28日至2月4日放假调休，共8天；国庆节、中秋节10月1日至8日放假调休，共8天 (国务院办公厅 (General Office of the State Council))
- 国务院办公厅关于2026年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2025〕7号，2025年11月4日）：经国务院批准；元旦1月1日至3日放假调休，共3天，1月4日（周日）上班；春节2月15日至23日放假调休，共9天，2月14日（周六）、2月28日（周六）上班；清明节4月4日至6日放假，共3天；劳动节5月1日至5日放假调休，共5天，5月9日（周六）上班；端午节6月19日至21日放假，共3天；中秋节9月25日至27日放假，共3天；国庆节10月1日至7日放假调休，共7天，9月20日（周日）、10月10日（周六）上班 (国务院办公厅 (General Office of the State Council))
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
December 2026 working days compared by country
Working-day counts vary across countries because each country observes its own public holidays. The table below shows December 2026 under 11 of the site's 25 holiday calendars; the summary above gives China's own count.
| Country | Business Days | Holidays this month |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸United States | 22 | Christmas Day |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 21 | Christmas Day, Boxing Day (observed) |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 21 | Christmas Day, Boxing Day (observed) |
| 🇦🇺Australia | 21 | Christmas Day, Boxing Day (additional) |
| 🇮🇳India | 22 | Christmas Day |
| 🇵🇭Philippines | 18 | Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Rizal Day, Last Day of the Year |
| 🇫🇷France | 22 | Noël |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 22 | Erster Weihnachtstag |
| 🇯🇵Japan | 23 | None |
| 🇲🇽Mexico | 22 | Navidad |
| 🇸🇬Singapore | 22 | Christmas Day |
How December 2026 compares year over year
December 2025 also had 23 working days, so the working capacity is unchanged year over year. On the surrounding months, November 2026 has 21 working days and January 2027 has 20. Looking forward, December 2027 has 23 working days under the same Chinese national holiday calendar.
Using this calculator in China
The 23-day count for December 2026 is this calculator's count of business days in the month: use it to see how many of them fall inside a filing period. A VAT taxpayer whose tax period is a month or a quarter files and pays within 15 days of the period ending (article 30 of the VAT Law, 增值税法, in force since 1 January 2026), and an enterprise files its monthly or quarterly prepayment return for Enterprise Income Tax (企业所得税) within 15 days of the month or quarter ending (article 54 of the Enterprise Income Tax Law). A company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange discloses its annual report within four months of the financial year ending, its half-year report within two months of the half-year ending, and its quarterly reports within one month of the first three and the first nine months ending (rule 5.2.2 of the exchange's Stock Listing Rules, April 2026 revision).
Sources for these rules
- 中华人民共和国增值税法（2024年12月25日通过，自2026年1月1日起施行）第三十条：增值税的计税期间分别为十日、十五日、一个月或者一个季度。纳税人的具体计税期间，由主管税务机关根据纳税人应纳税额的大小分别核定。纳税人以一个月或者一个季度为一个计税期间的，自期满之日起十五日内申报纳税；以十日或者十五日为一个计税期间的，自次月一日起十五日内申报纳税 (全国人民代表大会常务委员会 / 国家税务总局政策法规库 (Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; text in the State Taxation Administration's law database))
- 中华人民共和国企业所得税法（2007年3月16日通过，2017年2月24日第一次修正，2018年12月29日第二次修正）第五十四条：企业所得税分月或者分季预缴。企业应当自月份或者季度终了之日起十五日内，向税务机关报送预缴企业所得税纳税申报表，预缴税款。企业应当自年度终了之日起五个月内，向税务机关报送年度企业所得税纳税申报表，并汇算清缴，结清应缴应退税款 (全国人民代表大会 / 国家税务总局政策法规库 (National People's Congress; text in the State Taxation Administration's law database))
- 上海证券交易所股票上市规则（2026年4月修订，上证发〔2026〕42号，2026年4月24日生效；规则正文见该页附件1）第5.2.2条：上市公司应当在每个会计年度结束后4个月内披露年度报告，应当在每个会计年度的上半年结束后2个月内披露半年度报告，应当在每个会计年度前3个月、前9个月结束后1个月内披露季度报告 (上海证券交易所 (Shanghai Stock Exchange))
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
How December 2026 is shaped
The headline count answers how many working days December 2026 contains. It does not answer where they sit, and for anything measured in consecutive days rather than cumulative days that second question is the binding one. What follows is derived entirely from the Chinese national holiday calendar and a working week that treats Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, with no assumption about how any particular obligation behaves.
The month that closes the quarter, the half and the year
December runs 31 days and closes Q4, the second half of the year and the calendar year itself, so its final working day carries more boundaries than any other date on the calendar. It shares its weekday alignment with September, which means the two months start the same way and end differently. Nothing in the year follows December, so a slip here has no later period to absorb it.
In December 2026 that comes to 23 working days across 31 calendar days, against 21 in November 2026 and 20 in January 2027.
A start one day into the week
The 1st falls on the second working day of the week, so December inherits a part-week at the top. One working day of that week was spent in the previous month, which is why a month opening here reads short at the beginning and long at the end. Reporting cut on calendar weeks and reporting cut on the calendar month disagree about where the period starts, and the gap is exactly one working day.
The opening stretch runs from Tuesday, December 1 to December 4, four working days before the first break. December 2026 carries 23 working days in total, so that opening block is 17% of the month's working capacity.
Five working stretches
December splits into five working stretches. That is the ordinary shape of a month whose only interruptions are its weekends, and it means the month's internal boundaries are all predictable a year in advance: nothing here depends on a holiday date moving.
The working days of December 2026 arrive in stretches of 4, 5, 5, 5, and 4 days. The longest unbroken stretch runs five days, from December 7 to December 11. A task needing more consecutive working days than that cannot be completed inside a single stretch, whatever the month's total looks like.
The month is balanced end to end. Its opening and closing stretches are the same length, four days each, so work pushed from the start of December to its end finds the same amount of room it left behind. That symmetry is the exception rather than the rule.
Three weekdays occur five times
A 31-day month contains four full seven-day cycles and three days over, so exactly three weekdays occur five times and the other four occur four times. In December 2026 the three are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Which three it is follows entirely from the weekday the month opens on, which is why the working-day count of a 31-day month moves year to year even when its holidays do not.
All of them are working days here, so the surplus lands entirely on the working week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday each occur 5 times. A weekend of two days can take at most two of them, and had it done so the same month would carry 21 working days rather than 23.
A month with no closures, and a long one
December 2026 contains no Chinese national holiday on any date, working or otherwise. A month with no closure loses working days only to weekends, so its count is set entirely by the weekday it opens on and its length, and here both work in the month's favour: 23 working days across 31 calendar days.
Months at this end of the range are the ones worth reserving for work that needs consecutive days rather than cumulative days. The constraint that usually breaks a long run, a closure landing mid-week, is absent, so the month's structure is entirely weekend-driven and repeats on a seven-day cycle.
A closure sits just outside the month
December 2026 contains no Chinese national closure of its own, but one sits within a week of its edge. A closure just outside a month still reaches into it: work displaced from the closed day lands on the working days beside it, and those are inside December whichever side the holiday falls on.
Looking outside the month, the last was National Day (day 7) on October 7, 2026, 55 calendar days before December began and the next is New Year's Day on January 1, 2027, 1 calendar day after it ends.
Across the whole of 2026 the Chinese national calendar puts 19 closures on working days, of which none falls in December. That ratio, rather than the raw count, is what tells you whether a month is carrying more than its share of the year's downtime.
One working day short of the week
December 2026 closes on the fourth working day of its final week, one day short of a full week. The remaining working day of that week belongs to the next month, so the last calendar week of December is split across two reporting periods. Weekly and monthly figures for that week will not agree, and the difference is one working day.
The last working day of December 2026 is Thursday, December 31. Counting back from there, the third-to-last is Tuesday, December 29, two calendar days before the month closes.
The quarter closes here
December closes Q4, so the quarter's last working day and this month's last working day are the same date. Everything the quarter has deferred arrives inside these 23 working days, and there is no further month in the period to move it into.
Across the whole quarter there are 61 working days, of which 23 fall in December. The other two months carry October 2026 with 17 and November 2026 with 21. It is the largest of the three, so work deferred out of December lands in a month with less room than this one had.
The week's first working day is the scarcest
The first working day of the week is the one December gives least often. Anything anchored to the start of the working week (a weekly kickoff, a Monday-morning cutoff, a start-of-week batch) fires fewer times this month than the calendar count suggests, because a closure has taken one of them out.
Counted as worked rather than as occurring, December 2026 gives Monday 4, Tuesday 5, Wednesday 5, Thursday 5, and Friday 4. A weekly commitment pinned to a particular weekday fires that many times in the month, which is the number a rota needs and not the one the calendar shows.
Toward the long end of the year
December sits among the longer working months of 2026 under the Chinese national calendar. Where a month falls in that ranking is decided by two independent things, its calendar length and how many closures land on its working days, so a month can move several places between adjacent years without its length changing at all.
2026 carries 242 working days in total under the Chinese national calendar. The longest month of the year is July 2026 with 23 and the shortest is February 2026 with 14, a spread of 9. December ranks 2nd of the twelve with 23.
China closures across the year
A month's working-day count only means something against the country's whole calendar. Two countries that share a weekend and happen to have the same closure-free month can still run very different years, and China is placed as follows.
Across 2026 the Chinese national closures fall 8 in Q1, 5 in Q2, 1 in Q3, and 5 in Q4. A further 14 holidays land on the Saturday and Sunday weekend and cost no working day at all, which is why a country's holiday count and its working-day loss are different numbers.
The longest uninterrupted run in the 2026 calendar sits between June 19, 2026 and September 25, 2026, 98 calendar days with no Chinese national closure in between. Stretches like that are where multi-week work belongs, and they move from year to year whenever a movable holiday does.
After the year's last closure
December 2026 falls after the last Chinese national closure of the year, so nothing further in 2026 reduces a working-day count. Where a deadline runs from this month into the next year, the closures that can move it all belong to the following year's calendar rather than this one.
2026 opens its Chinese national closures with New Year's Day (day 1) on January 1, 2026 and ends them with National Day (day 7) on October 7, 2026. The densest month of the year is February 2026 with six closures on working days.
The same count as last year
December 2026 and December 2025 carry the same number of working days, 23 in each. An unchanged total does not mean an unchanged month: the working days sit on different dates and break into different stretches, so a schedule copied forward date by date will not line up even though the capacity has not moved.
December opens 2025 on a Monday, 2026 on a Tuesday, and 2027 on a Wednesday. The alignment moves every year, by one weekday in a common year and two after a leap day, and here it happens to leave the totals level while changing which dates the working days sit on. The number of closures on working days is the same in both years, so the whole of any difference comes from weekday alignment. Looking ahead, December 2027 carries 23 working days.
Where the month's anchor dates fall
Two of the common monthly anchor dates in December 2026 land outside the working week or on a closure. The table below resolves each one against the Chinese national calendar, together with the first working day on or after it.
| Date | Weekday | Status under the Chinese national calendar | First working day on or after |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 | Tuesday | Working day | December 1 |
| December 5 | Saturday | Weekend | December 7, 2026 |
| December 10 | Thursday | Working day | December 10 |
| December 15 | Tuesday | Working day | December 15 |
| December 20 | Sunday | Weekend | December 21, 2026 |
| December 25 | Friday | Working day | December 25 |
| December 31 | Thursday | Working day | December 31 |
The final column is arithmetic, not a legal conclusion. Whether an obligation actually moves when its date is not a working day depends on the instrument that sets it, and this site does not assume a shift rule for any jurisdiction. Where a rule is known it is stated in the holiday data methodology and on the country page it applies to.
Net terms dated in December 2026
An invoice dated the 1st of December on calendar-day Net 30 terms comes due on December 31, 2026, a working day under the Chinese national calendar. Terms counted in calendar days move independently of the working week, so the same term written on two consecutive months can settle cleanly in one and roll across a closure in the other.
| Invoice date | Net 30, calendar days | Net 60, calendar days |
|---|---|---|
| Dated December 1 | December 31, 2026 | January 30, 2027 (rolls to February 1, 2027) |
| Dated December 15 | January 14, 2027 | February 13, 2027 (rolls to February 15, 2027) |
| Dated December 31 | January 30, 2027 (rolls to February 1, 2027) | March 1, 2027 |
Net 30 and Net 60 are commercial conventions rather than statutory periods, and both are counted here in calendar days, which is how they are almost always written. Where a contract counts in working days instead, use the between-dates calculator with the China calendar selected, because the two produce different dates whenever a closure falls inside the term.
Sources and verification
Official source: State Council of the People's Republic of China (gov.cn) (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on October 7, 2026.
For informational purposes only
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Sources for these rules
- 全国年节及纪念日放假办法（国令第795号，自2025年1月1日起施行）第二条 全体公民放假的节日：元旦，放假1天（1月1日）；春节，放假4天（农历除夕、正月初一至初三）；清明节，放假1天（农历清明当日）；劳动节，放假2天（5月1日、2日）；端午节，放假1天（农历端午当日）；中秋节，放假1天（农历中秋当日）；国庆节，放假3天（10月1日至3日）。第六条 全体公民放假的假日，如果适逢周六、周日，应当在工作日补假。第七条 全体公民放假的假日，可合理安排统一放假调休 (国务院 (State Council of the People's Republic of China))
- 国务院办公厅关于2024年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2023〕7号，2023年10月25日）：经国务院批准；春节2月10日至17日放假调休，共8天；国庆节10月1日至7日放假调休，共7天 (国务院办公厅 (General Office of the State Council))
- 国务院办公厅关于2025年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2024〕12号，2024年11月12日）：除个别特殊情形外，春节自农历除夕起放假调休8天，国庆节自10月1日起放假调休7天；元旦、清明节、端午节、中秋节分别放假调休或连休3天（如逢周三则只在当日放假）；2025年春节1月28日至2月4日放假调休，共8天；国庆节、中秋节10月1日至8日放假调休，共8天 (国务院办公厅 (General Office of the State Council))
- 国务院办公厅关于2026年部分节假日安排的通知（国办发明电〔2025〕7号，2025年11月4日）：经国务院批准；元旦1月1日至3日放假调休，共3天，1月4日（周日）上班；春节2月15日至23日放假调休，共9天，2月14日（周六）、2月28日（周六）上班；清明节4月4日至6日放假，共3天；劳动节5月1日至5日放假调休，共5天，5月9日（周六）上班；端午节6月19日至21日放假，共3天；中秋节9月25日至27日放假，共3天；国庆节10月1日至7日放假调休，共7天，9月20日（周日）、10月10日（周六）上班 (国务院办公厅 (General Office of the State Council))
- 年度休市安排，2026年休市安排：元旦1月1日至1月3日休市，1月4日（星期日）为周末休市；春节2月15日至2月23日休市，2月14日（星期六）、2月28日（星期六）为周末休市；劳动节5月1日至5月5日休市，5月9日（星期六）为周末休市；国庆节10月1日至10月7日休市，9月20日（星期日）、10月10日（星期六）为周末休市 (上海证券交易所 (Shanghai Stock Exchange))
- The Employment Ordinance, Cap. 57: 15 statutory holidays, Easter Monday added from 1 January 2026, Good Friday from 2028 taking the total to 16, and the day following Good Friday from 2030 taking it to 17 (勞工處 (Labour Department, Hong Kong SAR))
- General holidays for 2026: the list gazetted for public information, every Sunday and 17 dated days, from the first day of January (1 January) to the first weekday after Christmas Day (26 December) (GovHK (Government of the Hong Kong SAR))
- General holidays for 2027: the list gazetted for public information, every Sunday and 17 dated days, from the first day of January (1 January) to the first weekday after Christmas Day (27 December) (GovHK (Government of the Hong Kong SAR))
- 2026 Public Holidays, Decree Law No. 60/2000 on Public Holidays: 20 dated public holidays, ten of them marked as obligatory holidays according to article 44 of Law no. 7/2008; the exemptions from work and compensatory rest days for public employees are listed separately (澳門特別行政區政府 (Government of the Macao SAR))
- 2027 Public Holidays, Decree Law No. 60/2000 on Public Holidays: 20 dated public holidays, ten of them marked as obligatory holidays according to article 44 of Law no. 7/2008; the exemptions from work and compensatory rest days for public employees are listed separately (澳門特別行政區政府 (Government of the Macao SAR))
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources