Canton Fair Complex Map and Hall Orientation

Last fact-checked: November 10, 2026.

A Canton Fair complex map is what people ask for the night before the halls open. The page that actually carries the 141st dates does not give them a plan. The exhibition-date page, published 4 November 2026 and updated 5 November 2026, prints three phases and the product groups under each. It does not print hall numbers, a scale, or a gate. The sketch below is a buyer note for those three groups. It is not an official floor plan.

Simplified schematic of the Canton Fair complex showing phase groupings for first-time buyers, labelled as a non-scale sketch because the 141st date page publishes no hall plan.

Dates and the long product lists live on the Canton Fair dates and phases. Once you know the week, the walk-throughs are phase 1, phase 2, and phase 3. How to spend a day once you are in the right week is the first-time buyer routine.

The address to hand a driver

The session page updated 5 May 2026 names the venue as the China Import and Export Fair Complex, No. 382 Yuejiang Zhong Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou. The Chinese line is 阅江中路 382号. An English interface string on the same site renders that field as Yuejiang West Road. Those are not two campuses. Give the driver the Chinese line. Buyers also call the area Pazhou. That word is not on the address line retrieved on 10 November 2026, so it is not what you put on the card.

The same May page names the Ministry of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial Government as hosts, and the China Foreign Trade Centre as organiser. The centre's own site, which carries a Canton Fair section, is cftc.org.cn. It is not a map.

Phases are lists, not hall numbers

Graphic linking Canton Fair phases to product groups on the official 5 November 2026 date page, without assigning hall numbers.

Phase on the 5 November 2026 page	Dates that page prints	Where a border product goes
1	15-19 April 2027	Lighting and tools sit on this list. Gifts do not.
2	23-27 April 2027	The list ends at furniture. It does not print an import exhibition.
3	1-5 May 2027	Apparel, toys, home textiles, food. Furniture is not on this list.

The May 2026 session page still prints an import exhibition on its phase 2 list and again on its phase 3 list. That is a different document, last updated 5 May 2026, and it describes the 139th and 140th sessions. If a saved printout and the November page disagree, the November page is the one that carries the 141st dates. The gap days, 20-22 April and 28-30 April 2027, are simply absent from the November list. The page does not say what the complex is doing on them.

From the entrance to the week you booked

Walking-orientation graphic from the entrance named by the organiser to the phase the buyer booked, without a metro line or an official floor plan.

The May page links a 139th phase 1 hall map and the matching phase 2 and phase 3 links beside it. The 140th layout line on that page is 敬请期待. It does not open a drawing. Nothing retrieved on 10 November 2026 attaches those links to April 2027. Use them only if you are reading the 139th session. A metro line, a shuttle route number, and a walking time were not in the text of the pages opened for this check. Opening hours and a one-day plan stays inside the hours that are printed, and says which page printed them. Arrival from Yiwu is Yiwu to the Canton Fair.

A buyer who walks the wrong week

A kitchenware buyer lands for "the April fair" with a furniture factory to meet and a toy reorder "while we are in Guangzhou." Furniture is on the phase 2 list, 23-27 April 2027. Toys are on the phase 3 list, 1-5 May 2027. A hall plan, even once the organiser publishes one, does not move the toy exhibitors into the furniture week. The buyer writes two dates or drops the toy walk. The case is a planning example. It is not a record of a named exhibitor.

Checklist for copying the Chinese complex address, keeping the 139th hall map in its own session, and refusing a guessed walking time.

What sends people to the wrong door

Warning graphic for three orientation mistakes: attending the wrong phase, using a 139th hall map for 2027, and following an English West Road label against the Chinese address.

Searching "Pazhou" and following a pin that is not No. 382 Yuejiang Zhong Road.
Treating the English "West Road" string as a second complex.
Opening the 139th hall map because it is the only drawing that loads.

Questions that stay on the organiser's page

Is there an official 141st hall plan?

Not on the exhibition-date page retrieved 10 November 2026. Reopen that page before you fly. A later drawing belongs to the organiser, not to this sketch.

Which session is the linked hall map?

The May 2026 session page labels the linked maps as the 139th. The 140th line does not link a map.

Which gate do I use?

Unavailable here. The pages opened do not name a gate for a product group. Start from the address, then from the phase.

A short list built before the trip can go through the China buying-trip page or the RFQ form.

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

Canton Fair exhibition dates, 141st session, published 4 November 2026, updated 5 November 2026. Phases and product groups. No hall plan.
Canton Fair session page, updated 5 May 2026. Address, hosts, organiser, and the 139th hall-map links.
139th phase 1 hall map, linked from that May page. Not a 141st plan.
China Foreign Trade Centre, the organiser named on the May page.

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