In short: Chinese New Year 2027 falls on Saturday 6 February 2027, opening the Year of the Goat. New Year’s Eve is Friday 5 February, and the Spring Festival runs for 16 days to the Lantern Festival on 20 February. China takes 6 public holiday days, Vietnam takes 7, and Taiwan and South Korea each take a multi-day block.
11 October 2026 โ Every date below comes from our country calendars, and Chinese New Year 2027 is the one date the whole of East Asia agrees on: Saturday 6 February 2027. We count a date only when its type is National, Substitute or Bank, and we exclude observances. This guide explains when the festival starts, which countries take the day off, how many holiday days each one allows, and why the same new year produces 6 days off in China and 7 in Vietnam.
When is Chinese New Year 2027?
Chinese New Year 2027 begins on Saturday 6 February 2027 and marks the first day of the Year of the Goat, also translated as Sheep or Ram. Because the festival follows a lunisolar calendar, the Gregorian date moves each year within a window from late January to mid-February.
The festival is not a single day. It opens with a reunion on New Year’s Eve, Friday 5 February 2027, and the official holiday then runs across the following week. In China the Spring Festival period lasts 16 days, closing with the Lantern Festival on Saturday 20 February 2027. That is the date the nights of lanterns and the last of the holiday feasting fall.
For contrast, the two previous years sat far earlier: Chinese New Year was 29 January 2025 and 17 February 2026. The 2027 date is the latest of the three, which is why schools and employers that close for the season shift their whole late-February schedule. Chinese New Year 2027 therefore sits a full three weeks later than the 2026 edition.
Chinese New Year 2027: the exact dates
The table below lists the core dates of the 2027 festival as they fall in the Gregorian calendar. The public holiday block a country observes is narrower than the full festival season, and it varies by country, so the dates of the holiday itself are listed separately from the days off.
| Event | Date (2027) | Day |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese New Year’s Eve | 5 February | Friday |
| Chinese New Year (Spring Festival, Day 1) | 6 February | Saturday |
| Day 2 | 7 February | Sunday |
| Day 3 | 8 February | Monday |
| Lantern Festival (Day 15) | 20 February | Saturday |
Because the first day lands on a Saturday in 2027, most countries that observe the festival move at least one day of the holiday to a weekday. China and Taiwan both extend the block to Wednesday 10 February, while Singapore and Malaysia move a single day to Monday 8 February.
The effect is that Chinese New Year 2027 produces a four-day run in most of East Asia even before any annual leave is booked: Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February join Monday 8 and, in several markets, Tuesday 9. That is the same weekday logic that creates the long weekends in our 2027 long weekends guide, applied to a single festival instead of a whole calendar.
Which countries take the day off
Chinese New Year is a public holiday across much of East and Southeast Asia, and in 2027 every major market that observes it places the holiday on the same weekend. The spread below shows how many public holiday days each country grants for the festival itself.
| Country | Holiday days 2027 | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| China | 6 | 5โ10 February |
| Vietnam | 7 | 4โ10 February |
| Taiwan | 7 | 4โ10 February |
| South Korea | 4 | 6โ9 February |
| Singapore | 3 | 6โ8 February |
| Malaysia | 3 | 6โ8 February |
| Indonesia | 1 | 6 February |
| Philippines | 1 | 6 February |
Counts here use our standard rule โ National, Substitute and Bank entries only โ and exclude observances. Malaysia and Indonesia mark their lunar new year dates as estimated in our data, because their official gazettes for 2027 are not yet published; treat those two rows as provisional rather than confirmed.
How many days off in China
China observes 6 public holiday days for the 2027 Spring Festival, from Friday 5 February to Wednesday 10 February. Three of those โ 6, 7 and 8 February โ are the core Spring Festival days, while 9 and 10 February are listed as Substitute days because the festival opened on a weekend.
The full photo of China’s year is on our China 2027 public holidays page, which also lists National Day, Labor Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day. Chinese public holidays work differently from most countries: several holidays are declared as continuous blocks rather than single days, so a festival that lasts three calendar days can produce a six-day closure once substitute days are added.
That pattern matters for anyone booking travel or coordinating with a Chinese supplier. A 6-day Spring Festival block means offices, factories and courier networks close for a full working week, and the days immediately before and after are the busiest for domestic travel in the entire year.
The same block logic appears at the other end of the Chinese year. Chinese New Year 2027 closes for 6 days in February, but National Day in October is declared as another continuous run, and Labor Day in May is extended the same way. Anyone tracking China’s calendar for 2027 should read the two festivals together rather than as isolated single days.
Vietnam, Taiwan and South Korea
Vietnam takes the longest break of any market in 2027: 7 consecutive days, from Thursday 4 February to Wednesday 10 February. Vietnamese Tแบฟt begins the day before New Year’s Eve and runs through the fifth day of the lunar year, making it the single longest public holiday block of Vietnam’s calendar.
Taiwan matches Vietnam with a 7-day block, running 4 to 10 February once the observed days are included. South Korea observes Seollal over 4 days, from Saturday 6 to Tuesday 9 February, a span that includes the day before Korean New Year, the two new year days themselves, and an alternative holiday that compensates for the weekend start.
South Korea’s extra day is worth noting, because it is a Substitute-type entry rather than a fixed date. Korea grants an alternative holiday when a public holiday falls on a weekend or overlaps another holiday, a rule that moves a different day each year. The full list sits on our South Korea 2027 holidays page.
Why the same festival gives different days off
The new year date is identical in every country, yet the number of days off ranges from 1 to 7. The gap comes from three separate decisions each government makes on its own.
First, the number of festival days declared as official holidays differs. China treats three lunar days as the core holiday, while Indonesia and the Philippines recognise only the first day. Second, the substitute-day rule decides what happens when the new year lands on a weekend. Third, some countries add a bridging or alternative day to avoid a two-day week broken by a holiday.
Because 2027’s first day is a Saturday, the substitute rule does most of the work this year. China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia all extend the holiday into the following week, which is why the 2027 blocks are longer than the same festival produced in 2026. The wider comparison is on our 2027 public holiday calendar, which lists the years for all 191 countries in the dataset.
Is Chinese New Year the same as Lunar New Year?
Chinese New Year is the Chinese tradition within a broader family of lunar new year celebrations, and in 2027 they share the same date. Lunar New Year also covers South Korea’s Seollal and Vietnam’s Tแบฟt, which derive from the same lunisolar calendar but carry their own names, foods and customs.
The distinction matters when you look up a country’s calendar. Searching for “Chinese New Year” in Korea will not surface the holiday, because our pages record it as Korean New Year. Indonesia labels the same day Lunar New Year, and Vietnam records a seven-day run under its own Tแบฟt dates rather than a single entry.
One further caution: the Islamic New Year is a separate holiday and follows a different calendar entirely. In 2027 it falls on 6 June in several of the same countries, with no connection to the lunar new year in February.
For anyone comparing the two systems, our Singapore 2027 holidays page is a useful case in point: it lists Chinese New Year in February and Islamic New Year in June on the same calendar, side by side, with the type of each entry labelled.
Year of the Goat: what 2027 represents
2027 is the Year of the Goat, the eighth animal in the 12-year Chinese zodiac cycle. The zodiac year turns over on Chinese New Year itself, so Goat years begin on the first day of the festival rather than on 1 January. That makes Chinese New Year 2027 both a public holiday and the start of a new zodiac sign.
Each zodiac year also carries one of five elements. Sources describe 2027 as the Year of the Fire Goat, the element giving the sign a warmer and more expressive character than the bare animal suggests. The zodiac calendar is a cultural system rather than a legal one, and it does not change any public holiday date โ the days off in the tables above are set by government decree, not by the zodiac.
The year’s most visible dates remain the ones in this guide: the reunion on 5 February, the new year on 6 February, and the Lantern Festival that closes the season on 20 February 2027.
Planning around Chinese New Year 2027
Two practical points follow from the 2027 dates. The first is travel volume: China’s Spring Festival is the largest annual movement of people in the world, and the 6-day block from 5 to 10 February concentrates most of it. Flights, trains and accommodation across Asia fill well in advance, and prices peak in the days either side of the holiday. Anyone booking a trip that overlaps Chinese New Year 2027 should expect the busiest window of the Asian travel year.
The second is business continuity. If you work with suppliers in China, Vietnam, Taiwan or Korea, plan for reduced capacity across the whole week of 6 to 10 February 2027, with Vietnam’s offices closed from 4 February. Confirm each partner’s own calendar, because private employers in every one of those markets may choose to close for longer than the national minimum.
For the surrounding picture, our Asia public holidays section collects the year pages for the whole region, and the China holiday hub holds the 2025, 2026 and 2027 calendars side by side if you want to see how the festival date moves. If you also need the dates other countries move to a Monday, our comparison of public holidays by country shows how differently substitutes are counted.
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