Yiwu Market Opening Hours, Holiday Closures and the Best Time to Visit

The hours notice still on the operator's English site opens Districts 1 to 5 at 8:30. Districts 1, 2, and 4 close at 18:00. Districts 3 and 5 close at 17:30. The notice is dated 17 May 2019.

Last fact-checked: 9 November 2026. A newer hours notice was not on the pages opened that day. Spring Festival closure dates for the next visit were not published there either, so those dates are unavailable. Do not fly on a guessed lunar calendar.

What each floor sells is a different page, the district and floor guide. This page is the clock.

The notice, and the two clocks that are not the notice

Zhejiang China Commodities City Group signed the notice on 17 May 2019. It says daily trading hours of International Trade Mart Districts 1 to 5, including the Imported Commodities Mall, changed from 18 May 2019. The table on that page is:

The notice does not list a weekly closing day. It does not say the market shuts because a fair is on. Booths can still be empty. That is a supplier, not a rule.

Two other pages on operator sites give different clocks, and they are easy to mix up.

• A Yiwugo "how to buy" article tells you the market runs 9:00 to 17:00 and that booths are shut for Chinese Spring Festival. It does not give the festival dates. It disagrees with the hours notice. Until a newer notice replaces 17 May 2019, the notice is the one with a signature and an effective date.
• Chinagoods prints customer-service hours for the District 2 desk: 9:00-11:30 and 13:00-17:00, summer and winter, at Gate 33, 3rd floor. That is the desk. It is not the time the booths lock.

District 6 appears in the Yiwugo and Chinagoods navigation. It is not in the 2019 hours table. Its hours are unavailable on the pages checked.

When to be in the building

Arrive for 8:30 if the category matters and you want the people who write the quote, not the apprentice covering lunch. The useful block is late morning. After 16:30 in District 3 or 5 you are in the last hour of the notice. Use it to confirm a price you already have, not to open a new aisle.

District 1 is the usual first morning for toys and jewelry. The operator's District 1 page puts artificial flowers and toys on floor 1, and jewelry and hair ornaments on floor 2. Both sit inside a district the hours notice keeps open until 18:00. You can do both floors in one day. You cannot do District 1 and a serious pass of District 3's stationery and cosmetics in the same afternoon without dropping one of them. The buying sequence after you are inside is how to buy from Yiwu.

Holidays: say unavailable when the page does

The how-to page warns you not to arrive during Spring Festival, when booths will not be open. It does not publish the next closure. The hours notice does not mention the festival at all. No 2027 closure calendar was on the operator news pages opened on 9 November 2026. Book refundable travel until you have the market's own notice for that year, or a written line from the suppliers you are actually visiting.

The Yiwu Fair is not the market. The 32nd fair's trade days were 21-24 October 2026 at the expo center, on the organiser's site. Nothing on the hours notice says the trade city closes for it. If you are stacking the two, read the Yiwu Fair page for the fair clock and keep this page for the market clock.

A typical case

A buyer of hair accessories and a few toy SKUs has two days. She lands the evening before, is at District 1 floor 2 at 8:30, and keeps floor 1 for toys after lunch. She does not start a District 3 stationery hunt at 16:00, because that district's notice closes at 17:30. Deposits wait until the second morning, when she can stand in the same booth and recheck the pack. Shipping the mixed cartons is a later job, on consolidating Yiwu goods. The case is typical. It is not a logged visit.

What the wrong clock costs you

Using the service-desk hours as the market hours. You arrive at 9:00, which is fine, and you leave at 11:30 because a page said the counter closes. The booths on the 2019 notice are still open.

Trusting "open daily" through late January without a festival notice. The how-to page and every experienced buyer will tell you the city empties. The dates still have to come from the operator, not from a blog that picked a week last year.

Planning District 6 on the same 8:30 assumption. It is on the menu. It is not on the hours table.

Questions before you buy the ticket

What are Yiwu market opening hours?

8:30 to 18:00 for Districts 1, 2, and 4, and 8:30 to 17:30 for Districts 3 and 5, on the notice effective 18 May 2019. Re-read that notice before a trip. If a newer one exists, it wins.

Is the market closed on Sunday?

The 2019 notice does not say so. It sets daily hours. Individual booths still choose to be empty.

When is the best time to visit Yiwu?

A weekday morning outside a closure you have confirmed, with your category list already sorted by district. The market guide for that list is the overseas buyer overview. A hosted day is a market visit.

If the dates are firm and the category list is not, send it on an RFQ before you lock the flight.

National rest days are not the same document as the market's own hours notice. The State Council's 2026 holiday arrangement is the public-holiday calendar. It does not say whether a Yiwu booth is staffed. Canton Fair dates, if you are combining the two trips, stay on the Canton Fair site.

Sources

• State Council: 2026 public-holiday arrangement. National rest days. It is not a Yiwu booth-hours notice.
• Canton Fair. Official session calendar if the Yiwu trip is paired with Guangzhou.
• Yiwugo: Notice of adjustment of opening and closing time. Dated 17 May 2019, effective 18 May 2019. Signed by Zhejiang China Commodities City Group.
• Yiwugo: How to buy from Yiwu International Market. The conflicting 9:00-17:00 line and the Spring Festival warning, without dates.
• Chinagoods: Yiwu market. District 2 customer-service desk hours, which are not booth hours.
• Yiwugo: International Trade Mart District 1. Floors used in the sample day.