Canton Fair Opening Time: The Hours Page, and a Day You Can Finish

Last fact-checked: November 10, 2026.

Canton Fair opening time is two documents, and they do not say the same thing. The 141st exhibition-date page, updated 5 November 2026, prints 15-19 April, 23-27 April and 1-5 May 2027, plus the product groups. It does not print a daily clock. The session page updated 5 May 2026 prints negotiation time as 9:30-18:00 each day, under the 139th and 140th dates on that page. Use the clock with the page date attached. Do not paste it onto the November page and call it a 141st rule.

Which products sit in which of those April and May ranges is the dates and phases page. The shape of a first hall day is the first-time routine. What you write down so the afternoon quotes can be compared is collecting booth quotes. Where the buildings sit, without a fake floor plan, is the complex orientation.

A day you can actually finish

The agenda in that drawing is a buyer plan. It is not an official roster. Inside the 9:30-18:00 line from the May page, the morning is the short list in the phase you already chose. The middle of the day is for writing the company name as it is printed on the board, and the booth number beside it. The afternoon is only the booths that still match the spec. The evening is one file per survivor, before the catalogues merge. A meeting set for 9:00, or a meeting set after 18:00, sits outside the only daily line retrieved for this check.

The May page calls that line negotiation time, 对外洽谈. It does not add a separate sentence for when the gates unlock. If gate time and talk time ever differ, that sentence was not on the page opened on 10 November 2026.

One phase is already a building

The November page does not describe 20-22 April or 28-30 April 2027. It also does not call them move-in days. Until it does, they are not booth days in this guide.

A buyer who schedules the gap

A home-textiles buyer wants phase 2 for cushions' furniture neighbours and phase 3 for the cushions themselves. Home textiles are on the phase 3 list, 1-5 May 2027. Furniture is phase 2. They block 23-27 April for furniture, leave 28-30 April for notes rather than for halls, and block 1-5 May only if the cushion spec still matters. They do not put a hall appointment on 29 April because the hotel is already paid. The case is a calendar example. It is not a named order.

Questions that stay on the two pages

Are 9:30-18:00 the 141st hours?

The November date page does not say so. The May 2026 session page does print 9:30-18:00. Reopen both before you tell a factory you will be at the booth at 9:00.

Can one day cover two phases?

The phases are different date ranges. A single calendar day sits inside one of them, or it sits in a gap the November page does not list.

Does the online section change the clock?

This check did not open a 2027 handbook for the section named Canton Fair 365. The hall clock, where it is printed, is the May page's negotiation line.

A spec you want quoted against that day goes on the RFQ form. Someone else can run the hall list from the buying-trip page.

The fair logistics around this are badge and registration fees, whether a small buyer should go, spring versus autumn, and Canton Fair versus Global Sources.

Official sources

• 141st exhibition dates, published 4 November 2026, updated 5 November 2026. Dates and groups. No daily hours.
• Session page, updated 5 May 2026. Negotiation time 9:30-18:00, on the sessions that page describes.
• Canton Fair English home.