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Business Days in February 2027 for China

February 2027 has 15 working days under the Chinese national holiday calendar. February 2027 contains 5 Chinese national holidays on weekdays. The month covers 28 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

15

Calendar Days

28

Weekend Days

8

public holidays

5

Work Weeks

3.0

February 2027 business day calendar
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public holidays in February 2027

Mon, Feb 8Spring Festival (day 3) (approximate)
Tue, Feb 9Spring Festival (day 4) (approximate)
Wed, Feb 10Spring Festival (day 5) (approximate)
Thu, Feb 11Spring Festival (day 6) (approximate)
Fri, Feb 12Spring Festival (day 7) (approximate)

China February deadlines

Spring Festival is four statutory days under article 2 of the Public Holiday Measures: lunar New Year's Eve and the first three days of the first lunar month. Those days follow the lunar calendar and are not always in February: the notice for 2025 arranged eight days off from 28 January 2025, lunar New Year's Eve, to 4 February 2025. The notice for 2026 arranged nine days, 15 to 23 February 2026, and made Saturday 14 February and Saturday 28 February 2026 working days. The principle the notice for 2025 stated is eight days from lunar New Year's Eve, special cases aside. The VAT return and the Enterprise Income Tax prepayment for a period that ended in January are due within 15 days of the period ending, which is 15 February. 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.

Sources for these dates

Checked October 14, 2026. All sources

Day-of-Week Distribution

The count of each weekday in February 2027. Useful for shift scheduling, weekly recurring billing, and any rota that depends on a specific day of the week landing in-month.

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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

Checked October 13, 2026. All sources

February 2027 working days compared by country

Working-day counts vary across countries because each country observes its own public holidays. The table below shows February 2027 under 11 of the site's 25 holiday calendars; the summary above gives China's own count.

CountryBusiness DaysHolidays this month
🇺🇸United States19Presidents' Day
🇬🇧United Kingdom20None
🇨🇦Canada20None
🇦🇺Australia20None
🇮🇳India20None
🇵🇭Philippines20None
🇫🇷France20None
🇩🇪Germany20None
🇯🇵Japan18National Foundation Day, Emperor's Birthday
🇲🇽Mexico19Día de la Constitución
🇸🇬Singapore19Chinese New Year Day 2 (observed)

How February 2027 compares year over year

February 2026 had 14 working days, so February 2027 has 1 more working day year over year. On the surrounding months, January 2027 has 20 working days and March 2027 has 23. Looking forward, February 2028 has 20 working days under the same Chinese national holiday calendar.

Using this calculator in China

The 15-day count for February 2027 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

Checked October 13, 2026. All sources

How February 2027 is shaped

The headline count answers how many working days February 2027 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 only month whose length changes

February is the shortest month and the only one whose length is not fixed, running 28 days in a common year and 29 in a leap year. A 28-day February is exactly four seven-day cycles, which makes it the only month capable of containing precisely four of every weekday. February 2027 runs 28 days, so it has that perfectly regular shape.

In February 2027 that comes to 15 working days across 28 calendar days, against 20 in January 2027 and 23 in March 2027.

A clean start to the working week

February 2027 opens on the first working day of the week. That is the alignment where the month's own numbering and the working week agree: week one of the month is a whole working week that belongs entirely to February, with nothing borrowed from the month before. Of the 5 possible starts this is the only one where "the first week" and "the first 5 working days" describe the same span.

The opening stretch runs from Monday, February 1 to February 5, five working days before the first break. February 2027 carries 15 working days in total, so that opening block is 33% of the month's working capacity.

How the working days break up

The working days of February 2027 fall into three separate stretches. The count of stretches matters more than it looks: a month's total is the sum of its runs, but a deliverable that needs consecutive days is limited by the longest single run, and the two numbers move independently.

The working days of February 2027 arrive in stretches of 5, 5, and 5 days. The longest unbroken stretch runs five days, from February 1 to February 5. 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, five days each, so work pushed from the start of February to its end finds the same amount of room it left behind. That symmetry is the exception rather than the rule.

The only perfectly regular month

A 28-day February is exactly four seven-day cycles, so every weekday occurs four times and no weekday is over-represented. It is the only month of the year that can be perfectly regular, and it means February's working-day count in a common year depends on nothing but its holidays: the weekday alignment cannot change the answer.

Only Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday among them are working days, so part of the surplus is absorbed by the Saturday and Sunday weekend and never reaches the working total. That split is why two months of the same length can carry different working-day counts without any holiday being involved.

A month with several closures

February 2027 carries five Chinese national closures on working days: Spring Festival (day 3) (approximate) on February 8, Spring Festival (day 4) (approximate) on February 9, Spring Festival (day 5) (approximate) on February 10, Spring Festival (day 6) (approximate) on February 11, and Spring Festival (day 7) (approximate) on February 12. At this density the month's working-day total stops being a useful planning number on its own, because the days that remain are cut into short stretches rather than distributed evenly.

The run structure above is the figure to plan against. Where several closures cluster, a month can hold a respectable total and still offer no stretch long enough for a multi-day deliverable, and only the run lengths show that.

five working days pass before the closure and 10 follow it, which puts the break just short of the month's midpoint. A closure near the middle divides the month into two usable halves rather than trimming one end of it.

The closures around this month

February 2027 carries five Chinese national closures of its own, and the months on either side add their own. Where a deadline sits close to a month boundary, the closure that moves it is as likely to be outside the month as inside it.

Looking outside the month, the last was New Year's Day on January 1, 2027, 31 calendar days before February began and the next is Qingming Festival (day 2) on April 5, 2027, 36 calendar days after it ends.

Across the whole of 2027 the Chinese national calendar puts 22 closures on working days, of which five fall in February. 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.

The month ends over a weekend

February 2027 ends on a Sunday, which this calendar treats as weekend. Month-end processing cannot happen on the last calendar day, so it happens earlier and the last few dates of the month carry no settlement at all. The distance between the final working day and the final calendar day is where month-end reconciliations go missing.

The last working day of February 2027 is Friday, February 26. Counting back from there, the third-to-last is Wednesday, February 24, four calendar days before the month closes.

The working month ends on the last working day of a week, so the final stretch is a complete one and nothing is left hanging mid-week. Two calendar days of February follow it with nothing settling on them.

The middle month of the quarter

February is the middle month of Q1. Middle months carry the least visibility in a quarterly cycle: the opening month sets expectations and the closing month is where they are settled, so a shortfall here is the one most likely to be noticed late.

Across the whole quarter there are 58 working days, of which 15 fall in February. The other two months carry January 2027 with 20 and March 2027 with 23. It is the smallest of the three, so the quarter's capacity sits mostly in the other two months and a plan that spreads work evenly across the quarter will over-commit February.

Every working weekday occurs the same number of times

February 2027 works each weekday of its week the same number of times. That is the flat case, and it is the only one where a weekly recurring commitment costs the same whichever weekday it is pinned to. It happens when the month's length and its closures happen to cancel, not because the month is regular: the calendar census above and this one can agree for quite different reasons.

Counted as worked rather than as occurring, February 2027 gives Monday 3, Tuesday 3, Wednesday 3, Thursday 3, and Friday 3. 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.

One of the year's shortest working months

No month of 2027 carries fewer working days than February under the Chinese national calendar. Two forces set a month's position in that ranking, its length and its closures, and they can either compound or cancel: a long month with several closures and a short month with none can land on the same count.

2027 carries 239 working days in total under the Chinese national calendar. The longest month of the year is March 2027 with 23 and the shortest is February 2027 with 15, a spread of 8. February ranks 12th of the twelve with 15.

Inside one of the year's denser months

February 2027 carries more than one Chinese national closure, which puts it among the year's denser months. Closures are never spread evenly across a year, so a month's own count says as much about the country's calendar as about the month.

Across 2027 the Chinese national closures fall 6 in Q1, 8 in Q2, 3 in Q3, and 5 in Q4. A further seven 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 2027 calendar sits between June 11, 2027 and September 15, 2027, 96 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.

Where the month sits in the year's closure pattern

Closures are not spread evenly across a calendar year. They cluster around fixed anniversaries and around whichever lunar or movable feasts a jurisdiction observes, so two adjacent months can carry very different loads, and the Chinese national calendar is no exception.

2027 opens its Chinese national closures with New Year's Day on January 1, 2027 and ends them with National Day (day 7) on October 7, 2027. The densest month of the year is February 2027 with five closures on working days.

One working day more than last year

There is one more working day in February 2027 than in February 2026: 15 against 14. A single-day swing is the ordinary case, produced by the calendar shifting forward one weekday between consecutive common years, and it is large enough to matter to a monthly target and small enough to be missed.

February opens 2026 on a Sunday, 2027 on a Monday, and 2028 on a Tuesday. That movement, one weekday in a common year and two after a leap day, is what makes the three counts differ. The count of closures on working days differs between the two years as well, so alignment is not the only thing moving. Looking ahead, February 2028 carries 20 working days.

Anchor dates that do not fall on working days

Three of the common monthly anchor dates in February 2027 land on a day this calendar does not work. A month with this many blocked anchors pushes several cycles onto the same few dates, because each of them resolves forward to the next available working day and those tend to be shared.

DateWeekdayStatus under the Chinese national calendarFirst working day on or after
February 1MondayWorking dayFebruary 1
February 5FridayWorking dayFebruary 5
February 10WednesdayClosed: Spring Festival (day 5) (approximate)February 15, 2027
February 15MondayWorking dayFebruary 15
February 20SaturdayWeekendFebruary 22, 2027
February 25ThursdayWorking dayFebruary 25
February 28SundayWeekendMarch 1, 2027

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 February 2027

An invoice dated the 1st of February on calendar-day Net 30 terms comes due on March 3, 2027, 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 dateNet 30, calendar daysNet 60, calendar days
Dated February 1March 3, 2027April 2, 2027
Dated February 15March 17, 2027April 16, 2027
Dated February 28March 30, 2027April 29, 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.

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For informational purposes only

This calculator provides general estimates based on business day counting rules. It does not constitute legal advice. Deadlines in legal, regulatory, or contractual matters may be subject to jurisdiction-specific rules, court orders, or statutory exceptions. Always verify critical deadlines with a qualified professional.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many business days are in February 2027 under the Chinese national holiday calendar?
February 2027 has 15 working days under the Chinese national holiday calendar. The month spans 28 calendar days, of which 8 fall on a weekend and 5 are Chinese national holidays that land on a weekday. The remaining 15 weekdays are countable as working days for invoicing, deadline tracking, and contract math.
Which China holidays affect February 2027?
February 2027 contains 5 Chinese national holidays: Spring Festival (day 3) (approximate) on Monday, February 8; Spring Festival (day 4) (approximate) on Tuesday, February 9; Spring Festival (day 5) (approximate) on Wednesday, February 10; Spring Festival (day 6) (approximate) on Thursday, February 11; Spring Festival (day 7) (approximate) on Friday, February 12. The calculator skips each of them. Regional or industry-specific closures may add further non-working days for narrower contract definitions; layer them into the calculator's Advanced options if needed.
Why do Chinese Golden Week closures shift adjacent weekends?
The statutory days off and each year's closure are set by two different instruments, and the weekend working days come from the second. Article 2 of the State Council's holiday Measures (全国年节及纪念日放假办法), as revised by State Council Order No. 795 with effect from 1 January 2025, gives all citizens thirteen days off across the year: one for New Year's Day, four for Spring Festival, one for the Qingming Festival, two for Labour Day, one for the Dragon Boat Festival, one for the Mid-Autumn Festival and three for National Day. Article 7 allows those days to be arranged into longer breaks by moving rest days. 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 (上班). This calculator counts Monday to Friday and leaves out the closure dates in its data. It never counts a Saturday or Sunday, so it does not count the weekend days a notice turns into working days, and a span that contains one of them comes out one business day short of a calendar that follows the notice. For 2026 the Shanghai Stock Exchange's closing schedule lists each make-up day of that year's notice as a weekend closure (周末休市).
Are Hong Kong and Macau covered by this Chinese calendar?
No. The China data covers the days off arranged under the State Council's holiday Measures (全国年节及纪念日放假办法); Hong Kong and Macau publish holiday lists of their own, and this calculator has no calendar for either. Hong Kong has two lists. The Government's gazetted list of general holidays has 17 dated days for 2026 and 17 for 2027, in addition to every Sunday. The Employment Ordinance (Cap. 57) entitles an employee to statutory holidays: 15 since Easter Monday was added on 1 January 2026, 16 from 2028 with Good Friday and 17 from 2030 with the day following Good Friday. The Government of Macau lists 20 public holidays under Decree Law No. 60/2000 for 2026 and 20 for 2027, ten of them in each year marked as obligatory holidays under article 44 of Law No. 7/2008. For a count in Hong Kong or Macau, add the dates under Advanced options as custom dates to exclude.
Why does the business-day count vary year to year?
Two things shift the monthly count for China. First, the day of the week the first of the month lands on changes the count of each weekday. Second, Chinese national holidays anchored to a fixed date shift their weekday across years. Some years a fixed-date holiday lands on a weekend; some countries shift the observance to an adjacent weekday and some absorb it into the weekend. February 2026 had 14 working days, so February 2027 has 1 more working day year over year.
When is the last working day of February 2027?
The last working day of February 2027 under the Chinese national calendar is Friday, February 26. The month's last calendar day is Sunday, February 28, which is not a working day, so month-end processing has to happen two calendar days earlier than the calendar suggests. Counting back, the third-to-last working day is Wednesday, February 24.
How many working days in a row does February 2027 offer?
February 2027 has 15 working days in total, but they do not run consecutively. They arrive in three stretches of 5, 5, and 5 days, so the longest unbroken run is five days, from February 1 to February 5. No working day in the month is isolated between two closures.

Sources for these rules

Checked October 13, 2026. All sources

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