Holiday dates are a prompt to ask, not a factory schedule
Your sewing factory may be open while the mill making its fabric is closed. A finished order can still miss the departure booked with your forwarder. Put each handoff on the same calendar so a Shopify launch or TikTok Shop promotion is based on stock you can receive.
This guide replaces our earlier 2026 calendar. The table below records official 2026 reference dates, including holidays already past. It does not forecast every supplier's shutdown or provide a complete calendar for every Asian country.
The 2026 dates to check against your suppliers
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| Market and holiday | Official 2026 reference | What you still need to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Mainland China: Spring Festival | 15–23 February; the New Year falls on 17 February | The mill and factory's actual last production day, closure and restart schedule |
| Vietnam: Tet | 14–22 February for public employees | Your private supplier's own leave and delivery arrangements |
| Mainland China: Mid-Autumn Festival | 25–27 September | Material dispatch, sample review and inspection availability |
| Mainland China: National Day / Golden Week | 1–7 October | Factory closure and the forwarder's final booking and cargo-receipt dates |
| India: Diwali / Deepavali | 8 November in the India Post national holiday list | State, local and supplier arrangements; a holiday date is not a nationwide factory shutdown period |
| Indonesia: Eid al-Fitr | 21–22 March in the published national schedule | Actual closure and collective-leave arrangements at each supplier |
| Indonesia: Eid al-Adha | 27 May in the published national schedule | Supplier leave and freight arrangements |
Sources: China's State Council 2026 holiday notice, Vietnam's government holiday announcement, India Post's 2026 holidays and Indonesia's State Secretariat announcement. Sources checked 11 October 2026. Indonesia's announcement also distinguishes the published schedule from religious-date determinations and private-sector collective-leave arrangements.
Planning the next run into 2027
Do not roll the 2026 dates into a 2027 order. Ask each supplier for its coming-year calendar and check that year's official announcement for its location. Leave an unverified date visibly unconfirmed rather than filling it with last year's closure length.
For a run now being planned, the useful output is a written sequence of dates: when specifications must be ready, when materials arrive, when approved production can start, when goods can be inspected and when they can leave. A factory's first day back is not confirmation that your materials, line allocation and shipment are ready.
Build one schedule across the whole garment
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| Dependency | Ask for | Keep beside it |
|---|---|---|
| Material supplier | Availability, approval deadline and last dispatch before leave | Exact material reference and any proposed substitution |
| Garment factory | Closure dates, capacity for your quantity and prerequisites for the promised completion date | Current brief, sample status and quote |
| Inspection provider | Availability before dispatch and the time needed to resolve findings | Agreed inspection scope and named production lot |
| Freight partner | Booking deadline, cargo cut-off and estimated onward transit | Shipping terms, destination and receiving arrangements |
| Your brand | Latest usable arrival date and what happens if it slips | Launch plan, cash commitments and customer promises |
Work back from when you need usable stock. Keep production, closure, inspection, transport and receiving as separate intervals. Avoid adding a closure twice when the supplier's lead time already includes it. Any allowance for uncertainty should reflect this order's dependencies, not a universal number copied from a calendar.
When the dates do not fit
If a material deadline is unconfirmed, keep the garment start conditional. If completion fits but freight does not, ask for another departure or adjust the launch plan before promising delivery. If a different material or supplier is proposed, review its effect on the garment, approvals and costs before accepting the substitution.
A split shipment can change cash, freight cost and what the first launch contains. A smaller run can change minimums and unit cost. Compare those consequences with the full landed cost, rather than solving a date problem with an uncosted order.
A message you can adapt for your supplier
We are planning [garment and quantity] for usable stock by [date and destination]. Please confirm your closure dates, the deadlines for our approved brief, materials and sample, and the earliest production completion date for this order. Which dates depend on another supplier? Please also confirm what must be ready before the agreed shipment can leave.
Keep the reply with the current brief and quote. Reconfirm unresolved dependencies when the schedule changes. A holiday calendar helps you ask the right questions; written answers from the people doing the work make the schedule usable.
Keep the timeline connected
Your sample approval, material choice, quote and launch date affect one another.
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