Topic: Other days of the Islamic calendar
Does China have Other days of the Islamic calendar?
Not observed here
China does not place the Islamic New Year or the Prophet's birthday on any holiday list. What is worth noting is that not even Ningxia does. The Hui Autonomous Region's annual holiday notice lists exactly two Islamic festivals — Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha (in 2026, Eid al-Fitr on 21 March fell on a Saturday and Eid al-Adha took 27–28 May as two days off) — and neither Mawlid nor the Islamic New Year appears. So even in the place with China's densest Muslim population and the autonomous-region authority to grant holidays, institutional recognition stops at those two festivals. At national level the Measures on National Annual Festivals and Commemorative Days contain no religious festival at all.
What is this topic?
Beyond Ramadan and the two Eids, the Islamic calendar carries several more days: the New Year on 1 Muharram, Ashura on 10 Muharram, the Prophet's birthday, and Isra Mi'raj. Of the seven places compared here, only Indonesia and India put any of them on the official calendar — and the two do not mark the same day. Indonesia takes 1 Muharram; India's gazetted "Muharram" is the tenth, Ashura, a full ten days later in 2026. Their Mawlid dates fall a day apart. How the date is fixed, and by whom, tells you more than the date itself.
Sources and dates
Dates follow local time zones, calendars, and official notices. Check the source when a date is estimated or locally variable.