Canton Fair 2027 Dates, Phases and Which Products Each Phase Covers

Last fact-checked: November 10, 2026.

The Canton Fair 2027 dates for the 141st session are on the organiser's current-session page: phase 1 is 15-19 April 2027, phase 2 is 23-27 April 2027, and phase 3 is 1-5 May 2027. The same page sets negotiation hours at 9:30-18:00 each day and gives the complex as No. 382 Yuejiang Zhong Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou. The hall layout line for the 141st session still reads as not yet published. Read the official current-session page again before you pay for flights.

That page is in Chinese. The dates below are copied from it, and the product groups are a close translation of the list printed there. This is the spring session. The page also names the Ministry of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial Government as hosts, and the China Foreign Trade Centre as the organiser.

What each phase actually lists

Phase 1 on that list is the industrial and electrical week: household appliances, consumer electronics and information products, industrial automation and intelligent manufacturing, processing machinery, power and electrical equipment, general machinery and basic parts, construction machinery, agricultural machinery, new materials and chemical products, new-energy vehicles and intelligent mobility, vehicles, auto parts, motorcycles, bicycles, lighting, electrical and electronic products, new energy, hardware, and tools.

Phase 2 is the home and building week: daily-use ceramics, kitchen and tableware, household goods, glass crafts, home decorations, garden products, festival products, gifts and premiums, watches and eyewear, craft ceramics, woven and rattan-iron crafts, building and decoration materials, bathroom equipment, furniture, a zone for integrated housing and courtyard facilities, and an import exhibition.

Phase 3 is the consumer-goods week: toys, maternity and children's products, children's clothing, men's and women's clothing, underwear, sportswear and casual wear, fur, leather and down, clothing accessories, textile raw materials and fabrics, footwear, luggage and bags, home textiles, carpets and tapestries, office stationery, medicines, health products and medical devices, food, sports and leisure goods, personal care, bathroom goods, pet products, rural-revitalisation specialty products, and an import exhibition.

The graphic is a short map. If your product sits on the border, use the full list above, not the short labels. Phase 2 on this 141st page includes the integrated-housing zone. A separate official page that prints the 140th and 139th session dates does not use that phrase in its phase 2 list. If you saved an old category printout, replace it.

Read the groups as the organiser printed them, including the awkward borders. Lighting, electrical products, and tools are phase 1, not the home week. Watches and eyewear are phase 2, not the electronics week. Furniture, garden goods, and building materials are phase 2. Home textiles, carpets, apparel, and footwear are phase 3. Bathroom equipment is on the phase 2 list. Bathroom goods and personal-care appliances are on the phase 3 list. Those are different lines on the same official page, so a "bathroom" trip can be the wrong week if you do not read which word the page uses. An import exhibition is named on the phase 2 list and again on the phase 3 list. What sits inside that import hall, and whether it repeats in both phases, is unavailable on the page checked.

Phase	Published dates	Who the list is for	Who should not buy this week
1	15-19 April 2027, talks 9:30-18:00	Appliances, electronics, machinery, vehicles, lighting, hardware, tools	A gift, toy, or apparel buyer. Those groups are not on this list.
2	23-27 April 2027, talks 9:30-18:00	Kitchen, home, gifts, furniture, building materials, garden, watches and eyewear	A machinery buyer, and a clothing buyer. Clothing is phase 3.
3	1-5 May 2027, talks 9:30-18:00	Toys, apparel, textiles, shoes, bags, food, personal care, pet	An electronics or furniture buyer. Furniture is phase 2.

The short labels in that table are a finding aid. The sentences above are the translation of the official list. Phase-by-phase notes, once you already know you belong in one week, are phase 1, phase 2, and phase 3. Those pages go further into the groups. They do not replace the dates on this one.

The days between the phases

The published negotiation dates leave 20-22 April and 28-30 April 2027 out. The current-session page does not describe those six days as open for talks. It also does not say they are move-in days, closed days, or anything else. That description is unavailable. Do not book booth meetings on them until the organiser says they are open. Daily talks, on the days that are listed, run 9:30-18:00. How to lay those hours into a walking day is opening hours and a day plan. A meeting at 9:00, or a meeting after 18:00, is outside the hours that page prints.

If your range needs phase 1 and phase 2, the gap is three nights with no published hall time. Use those days to turn booth notes into one specification and to chase written quotes. How to keep those booth quotes comparable is collecting quotes in the halls. Do not spend them walking empty aisles on the hope that someone is still standing there. The same applies between phase 2 and phase 3. Hotels, the airport run, and what a realistic trip costs are not on the session page. Those notes are hotels, transport, and the trip budget. No hotel rate is copied here.

Whether one new buyer badge covers all three phases is also unavailable. The badge guide says how to get a badge and that the overseas buyer badge was free on the 140th notice. It does not, on the page checked, say that a badge issued for 15 April also opens the doors on 1 May. Ask that question in the buyer system before you pay for two return flights a week apart. Staff who walk with you are a different badge. The 140th accompanying-staff notice is the one with the day fee. Those amounts stay labeled as 140th-session figures on the interpreter and accompanying-badge page. A replacement 141st fee notice was not on the official accompanying-personnel page when these dates were checked.

Session	Phase 1	Phase 2	Phase 3
139th, spring 2026	15-19 April 2026	23-27 April 2026	1-5 May 2026
140th, autumn 2026	15-19 October 2026	23-27 October 2026	31 October-4 November 2026
141st, spring 2027	15-19 April 2027	23-27 April 2027	1-5 May 2027

The 139th and 140th rows are on the prior-session page linked above. The 141st row is on the current-session page. Recent published sessions are one spring and one autumn. That is a pattern on those pages, not a promise that the calendar never moves.

The current-session page also prints an exhibition area of 1.55 million square metres and an exhibitor count of 32,000, without tying either figure to April 2027. It does label the overseas-buyer count, 352,000 people from 219 countries and regions, as the 140th session. The prior-session page prints a different buyer line for the 139th session: 314,000 people from 220 countries and regions. Use the label on the page. Do not mix the two counts, and do not treat the area line as a forecast of who will be in the hall.

Pick the phase from the product

A blender and a plush toy are not the same ticket. The blender sits with appliances in phase 1. The toy sits in phase 3. A buyer who flies for "the April fair" and walks phase 1 looking for toys will find the toy halls empty, because those exhibitors are not called for that week. If you need both, you need both phases, and the nights between them.

Decide in this order. Name the product in the words the official list uses, not in the words on your retail shelf. "Home" is not a phase. A lamp is lighting, which is phase 1. A cushion is home textiles, which is phase 3. A sofa is furniture, which is phase 2. Then look at the second product. If it is on the same list, one phase is enough. If it is not, either drop it from this trip or buy the second ticket and the gap nights. Attending all three phases "to be safe" is how a five-day buying trip becomes two weeks of catalogues. The hall map will not rescue a wrong week: for the 141st session that line still says it is not published. When a map is posted, the complex layout is the Pazhou hall guide.

Once the phase is chosen, the rest of the trip is not this page. Pre-register and collect the badge before you worry about booths. An invitation letter, and what it does not do for a visa, is the invitation-letter note. Visa rules for your passport are unavailable here. How to spend a day inside 9:30-18:00 is the first-time routine. Checking whether the board name is a factory or a trading company is exhibitor verification. Samples and a mixed shipment after the fair are shipping what you bought at the fair. The site has a section named Canton Fair 365. A handbook that states what that section offers buyers in 2027 was not opened for this check, so what the online platform does is unavailable. The page that will carry that note is Canton Fair online. Pre-registration being open all year is not the same claim.

You buy	Go when	Do not assume
Electronics, machinery, vehicles, lighting, hardware, tools	Phase 1, 15-19 April 2027	That gifts or apparel are in the same halls
Kitchen, home, gifts, furniture, building materials, garden	Phase 2, 23-27 April 2027	That the hall map is already posted
Toys, apparel, textiles, shoes, bags, food, pet, personal care	Phase 3, 1-5 May 2027	That a phase 1 badge day covers this week
Two of the rows above	Two phases	That 20-22 April or 28-30 April are fair days

A typical case

A buyer wants melamine tableware and gift boxes for a spring range, shipped FOB from Guangzhou, and expects the goods to share a container with a small toy reorder. Tableware and gifts are phase 2. Toys are phase 3. The sensible plan is phase 2 for the hero line, then a decision: stay for phase 3, or place the toy reorder through a supplier already on file and skip the second week. The toy reorder does not become a phase 2 conversation because the buyer is already in Guangzhou. The case is typical. It is not a record of a named order.

A second buyer only needs LED drivers and hand tools, one factory relationship, FOB, and enough volume that a shared container is a later question rather than the reason for the trip. Both groups are phase 1. That buyer should not buy a phase 2 or phase 3 ticket "while I am in China." The extra weeks do not put more driver factories in the hall. They put kitchens and then apparel in the hall. If the same company also wants a small gift line for the same brand, that gift line is a separate decision, not a free walk on 16 April.

A third buyer is choosing the fair against a standing market. Gifts in one phase, then a sock reorder and a zipper reorder, is a weak reason to attend three weeks in Guangzhou. Socks and zippers are a Yiwu question, which is Canton Fair versus Yiwu versus the Yiwu Fair and the Yiwu market guide. The Yiwu Fair itself, which is not the market, is the Yiwu Fair note. Other dated shows, only where a date has been checked, belong on the 2027 fair calendar. An East China Fair date is unavailable here.

Mistakes that cost the fare

• Booking phase 1 because "April" sounded right, then discovering the category is phase 3 in May.
• Attending only phase 2 with a range that is half furniture and half apparel. You will meet the furniture exhibitors and miss the clothing exhibitors, then describe the fair as "thin."
• Treating 20-22 April as a quiet day to walk halls. Those dates are not on the negotiation list. What the complex is doing on them is unavailable.
• Using a 2026 category printout. The 141st phase 2 list adds a housing zone, and the hall map is still marked unpublished.
• Assuming the online section replaces the phase. Year-round pre-registration is a badge process. What Canton Fair 365 shows a buyer in 2027 is unavailable.

If the fair is the wrong tool and you really want a standing small-commodity market, read Canton Fair versus Yiwu and the Yiwu market guide. A buying trip can be arranged from the China buying-trip page, and a mixed order starts on the RFQ form.

Questions buyers ask before they book

Is the fair only once in 2027?

The pages checked on 10 November 2026 show the 141st session as the spring 2027 session. They do not yet print an autumn 2027 session. How spring and autumn differ, once both dates are printed, is spring versus autumn. The 139th was spring 2026 and the 140th was autumn 2026, so a later autumn session would fit the recent pattern. It is not a date until the organiser prints it.

Does the online fair replace the halls?

The site has a section named Canton Fair 365. This check did not open a handbook that states what that section does in 2027, so this page does not describe it. Pre-registration is described as year-round on the 19 August 2026 pre-registration notice. That is a badge process, not a substitute for the phase you need.

Where is the complex?

China Import and Export Fair Complex, No. 382 Yuejiang Zhong Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou. The same address is in the footer of the badge pages. How long the airport transfer takes, and which hotels the organiser lists, are unavailable on the session page. Use the transport note linked above, and check the organiser again before you book.

Is one phase enough?

Yes, when every product you came for is on that phase's list. No, when the range crosses the borders above. A single phase is the default. A second phase is a second trip with a reason, not a precaution.

Has the autumn 2027 session been dated?

Unavailable. The pages checked show the 141st as the spring session and do not print autumn 2027 dates. Do not copy the 140th October pattern forward and call it official.

Next steps

• Badge and registration fees
• The exhibitor list before you fly
• Whether a small buyer should go
• Factory visits after the fair

Official sources

• Canton Fair current session: 141st dates, hours, address and product groups.
• Canton Fair page printing the 140th and 139th phase dates.
• Year-round overseas buyer pre-registration notice, 19 August 2026.