Business Days in October 2026 for China
October 2026 has 17 working days under the Chinese national holiday calendar. October 2026 contains 5 Chinese national holidays on weekdays. The month covers 31 calendar days, of which 9 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
17
Calendar Days
31
Weekend Days
9
public holidays
5
Work Weeks
3.4
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 National Day (day 1) | 2 National Day (day 2) | 3 National Day (day 3) | ||||
4 National Day (day 4) | 5 National Day (day 5) | 6 National Day (day 6) | 7 National Day (day 7) | 8 | 9 | 10 wknd |
11 wknd | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 wknd |
18 wknd | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 wknd |
25 wknd | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 wknd |
public holidays in October 2026
China October deadlines
National Day is three statutory days, 1 to 3 October, under article 2 of the Public Holiday Measures. A longer closure comes from the year's notice. The notice for 2026 arranges seven days off, 1 to 7 October, and makes Sunday 20 September and Saturday 10 October working days. The principle the notice for 2025 stated is seven days from 1 October, special cases aside, and eight when Mid-Autumn falls within them. The VAT return and the Enterprise Income Tax prepayment for a period that ended in September, the month or the third quarter, are due within 15 days of the period ending, which is 15 October. 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 October 2026 that notice sets 26 October, citing the seven days off from 1 to 7 October. Rule 5.2.2 of the Shanghai Stock Exchange's stock listing rules gives a listed company one month from the end of the first nine months of its financial year for the third-quarter report; for a financial year that ends on 31 December that month ends on 31 October. 31 October 2026 is a Saturday. The rule names no other day for a period that ends on a day the exchange is closed.
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）七、国庆节：10月1日（周四）至7日（周三）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 October 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 | 4 |
| Wednesday | 4 |
| Thursday | 5 |
| Friday | 5 |
| Saturday | 5 |
| 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
October 2026 working days compared by country
Working-day counts vary across countries because each country observes its own public holidays. The table below shows October 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 | 21 | Columbus Day |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 22 | None |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 21 | Thanksgiving |
| 🇦🇺Australia | 22 | None |
| 🇮🇳India | 20 | Gandhi Jayanti, Dussehra |
| 🇵🇭Philippines | 22 | None |
| 🇫🇷France | 22 | None |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 22 | None |
| 🇯🇵Japan | 21 | Sports Day |
| 🇲🇽Mexico | 22 | None |
| 🇸🇬Singapore | 22 | None |
How October 2026 compares year over year
October 2025 also had 17 working days, so the working capacity is unchanged year over year. On the surrounding months, September 2026 has 21 working days and November 2026 has 21. Looking forward, October 2027 has 16 working days under the same Chinese national holiday calendar.
Using this calculator in China
The 17-day count for October 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 October 2026 is shaped
The headline count answers how many working days October 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.
A 31-day month opening the final quarter
October runs 31 days and opens Q4, the last quarter of the calendar year, so everything deferred earlier arrives inside a period that begins here. It shares its weekday alignment with January in a common year. As a 31-day month it carries three weekdays five times, and which three is decided entirely by the day it opens on.
In October 2026 that comes to 17 working days across 31 calendar days, against 21 in September 2026 and 21 in November 2026.
The month opens on a closure
October 2026 begins on a public holiday. National Day (day 1) falls on the 1st, which is a Thursday this year, so the calendar month and the working month start on different dates. Any obligation written as "the first of the month" and any obligation written as "the first working day" point at different days in October 2026, and a schedule that treats them as interchangeable is wrong by at least one day here.
The month's first working day is Thursday, October 8, and October 2026 carries 17 working days in total.
How the working days break up
The working days of October 2026 fall into four 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 October 2026 arrive in stretches of 2, 5, 5, and 5 days. The longest unbroken stretch runs five days, from October 12 to October 16. 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 back-loaded. It opens with two consecutive days and closes with five, so the room is at the end rather than the start. That is the safer of the two imbalances, because a slip has somewhere to go, but it also makes the opening week a poor sample of the month.
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 October 2026 the three are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. 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.
Only 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
October 2026 carries five Chinese national closures on working days: National Day (day 1) on October 1, National Day (day 2) on October 2, National Day (day 5) on October 5, National Day (day 6) on October 6, and National Day (day 7) on October 7. 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.
The closure arrives before any working day has passed, so October is interrupted before it has started and the whole of its 17 remaining working days sit after the break.
The closures around this month
October 2026 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 Mid-Autumn Festival (day 1) on September 25, 2026, 6 calendar days before October began and the next is New Year's Day on January 1, 2027, 62 calendar days after it ends.
Across the whole of 2026 the Chinese national calendar puts 19 closures on working days, of which five fall in October. 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
October 2026 ends on a Saturday, 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 October 2026 is Friday, October 30. Counting back from there, the third-to-last is Wednesday, October 28, three 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. One calendar day of October follows it with nothing settling on it.
The quarter opens here
October is the first month of Q4. An opening month sets the baseline the rest of the quarter is measured against, and it is the one month where a slip has two further months to be absorbed in. Quarterly targets divided evenly by three ignore the fact that the three months rarely carry equal working-day counts.
Across the whole quarter there are 61 working days, of which 17 fall in October. The other two months carry November 2026 with 21 and December 2026 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 October.
The week's first working day is the scarcest
The first working day of the week is the one October 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, October 2026 gives Monday 3, Tuesday 3, Wednesday 3, Thursday 4, 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 short end of the year
October sits among the shorter working months of 2026 under the Chinese national calendar. A month reaches this end of the ranking either by being short or by absorbing closures, and the two produce the same headline number while behaving differently: a closure fragments the month, a shorter calendar does not.
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. October ranks 11th of the twelve with 17.
Inside one of the year's denser months
October 2026 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 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.
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.
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
October 2026 and October 2025 carry the same number of working days, 17 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.
October opens 2025 on a Wednesday, 2026 on a Thursday, and 2027 on a Friday. 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, October 2027 carries 16 working days.
Anchor dates that do not fall on working days
Five of the common monthly anchor dates in October 2026 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.
| Date | Weekday | Status under the Chinese national calendar | First working day on or after |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | Thursday | Closed: National Day (day 1) | October 8, 2026 |
| October 5 | Monday | Closed: National Day (day 5) | October 8, 2026 |
| October 10 | Saturday | Weekend | October 12, 2026 |
| October 15 | Thursday | Working day | October 15 |
| October 20 | Tuesday | Working day | October 20 |
| October 25 | Sunday | Weekend | October 26, 2026 |
| October 31 | Saturday | Weekend | November 2, 2026 |
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 October 2026
An invoice dated the 1st of October on calendar-day Net 30 terms comes due on October 31, 2026, which is not a working day under the Chinese national calendar. A term counted in calendar days can land anywhere in the week, and roughly two days in seven it lands somewhere nothing settles, which is the ordinary reason a payment shows as late by a day or two without anyone being late.
| Invoice date | Net 30, calendar days | Net 60, calendar days |
|---|---|---|
| Dated October 1 | October 31, 2026 (rolls to November 2, 2026) | November 30, 2026 |
| Dated October 15 | November 14, 2026 (rolls to November 16, 2026) | December 14, 2026 |
| Dated October 31 | November 30, 2026 | December 30, 2026 |
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
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.
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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