Why does Mid-Autumn Festival matter?

It celebrates the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, traditionally marked with mooncakes and family gatherings — one of the most widely observed Chinese festivals globally.

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Chinese Festival Date Calculator

Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn, and other Chinese festivals, for any year.

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About the Chinese Festival Date Calculator

Computes the Gregorian date of major Chinese festivals — Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and more — for any given Gregorian year.

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How to use it

Enter a Gregorian year.
Read each festival's date.

Formula

Each festival falls on a fixed Chinese lunar-calendar month/day (e.g. Lunar New Year = 1st month, 1st day; Mid-Autumn = 8th month, 15th day); this tool checks both plausible Chinese lunar years to find whichever occurrence actually lands in the requested Gregorian year.

Worked example

In 2026: Lunar New Year falls February 17, and the Mid-Autumn Festival falls September 25 — both verified against independently-published 2026 sources.

Interpreting your result

These festivals are shared across Chinese folk religion, Buddhism, and secular Chinese culture — framed here as the general "Chinese Calendar," not tied to any single tradition.

Recommendations

• Festivals later in the lunar year (like Double Ninth) can occasionally land in the Gregorian year after the one you'd expect, depending on how early or late Lunar New Year falls that year.

Frequently asked questions

A traditional Chinese festival on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month honoring deceased ancestors — related to, but distinct from, the Buddhist Ullambana observance around the same date.