Chinese festival dates for the next ten years.

Lunar New Year is month 1, day 1; Lantern Festival is 1/15; Dragon Boat Festival is 5/5; Qixi is 7/7; Mid-Autumn is 8/15; and Double Ninth is 9/9. These refer to regular lunar months. A repeated leap month does not automatically create a second date in this reference.

Qingming and Dongzhi follow the Qingming and winter-solstice solar terms. Their Gregorian dates come from astronomical events rather than a fixed lunar day. This is why a festival list cannot be made by shifting every event the same number of days each year.

The dates use the engine’s Chinese calendar convention; solar-term dates are the civil dates of those events in China Standard Time, UTC+8. They are not converted to the visitor’s time zone. An overseas event may be held on a different local date or on a nearby weekend.

Educators can place a lesson near a festival and follow the background links before choosing an activity. Editors can use the exact date and name, but should distinguish the day from a broader celebration season. A New Year parade, for example, need not take place on Lunar New Year itself.

For travel, check the destination’s official holiday notice, transport timetable, opening hours and local organizer. Days off, substitute holidays and multi-day closures are separate decisions; this table does not predict them ten years ahead.

Not every household observes every date, and communities differ in names, foods, religious practice and participation. Ask a host or organizer what is appropriate rather than treating the calculated date as an instruction to perform a universal custom. Our respectful-participation guide offers practical ways to ask.

The page shows the ten complete Gregorian years after the build year. The window is fixed during each build so server-rendered dates and the hydrated browser agree. It advances when the site is rebuilt in a new year, not when an individual visitor’s clock crosses midnight.

All 80 displayed dates for 2027–2036 were independently compared with Hong Kong Observatory annual text tables on October 19, 2026. Stored source-derived fixtures test the six regular-month rules and the two solar-term dates, including years with leap months. The 2033 calendar is included rather than assuming a simple repeating pattern.

When a later build adds years beyond that comparison range, those years are explicitly labelled as calculated without an independent comparison on file. A rebuild does not create a new verification claim. Library or rule changes require rerunning the fixtures and investigating discrepancies before expanding the checked range.

The calculations use lunar-javascript 1.7.7 and support festival years through 2100. The ten-year builder rejects a window outside that range instead of silently dropping years. Published astronomical models can differ near midnight; consult the linked official year table for a consequential use.