🇨🇳How does China mark Eid al-Adha?

古尔邦节（宁夏回族自治区）

Local date

May 17, 2027

When is it?

The 10th day of Dhul Hijjah in the Islamic calendar; announced annually by the General Office of the Autonomous Region People's Government in its holiday arrangement notice, usually a two-day holiday.

Eid al-Adha — known locally as Gurbang — is not a national holiday in mainland China, but it is a local one in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with two days off: 27 and 28 May in 2026. That is a day more than Eid al-Fitr received, because Eid al-Fitr fell on a Saturday that year. The number of days is published each year in the regional government's annual holiday notice, so the length of the break for the same festival inside China is re-decided at regional level every year. In China, Eid al-Adha is not a nationwide holiday but a local one: autonomous regions such as Xinjiang, where the believing population is concentrated, set the day off themselves, while the rest of the country works as usual. The same festival holding two calendar states inside one country shows why the question of whether the day is off depends on which level of rule is being asked.