How does China mark Father's Day?
父亲节（无官方地位）
- Local date
- June 20, 2027
- When is it?
- Popularly observed on the third Sunday in June; not listed in the "Measures for National Annual Festivals and Memorial Day Holidays"
Father's Day has no official standing in China. The State Council's Measures on National Holidays and Commemorative Days sorts days off into two classes — those for all citizens (New Year, Spring Festival, Qingming, Labour Day, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn, National Day) and those for some (Women's Day, Youth Day, Children's Day, Army Day) — and Father's Day appears in neither. Popular practice mostly follows the third Sunday in June, while some keep the eighth of August for the sound of the numbers; the two coexist and neither is prescribed. Every other place on this page has at least one document stating a date; what fills China's cell is the absence of that document.
What is this topic?
Father's Day sits on three different dates across four places, and the origins have nothing in common: Taiwan picked 8 August because 'eight-eight' sounds like the word for dad, the United States took nearly sixty years to legislate it in 1972, and Brazil's was invented in 1953 by an advertising man to fill a gap in the second half of the retail year. What this page compares is where the day came from — a pun, a statute, or an ad campaign.
Sources and dates
Dates follow local time zones, calendars, and official notices. Check the source when a date is estimated or locally variable.