City calendar

Plan around Shanghai's cultural dates

3 current dates worth locking hotels and tables around in Shanghai. When an edition ends, it leaves the calendar; the next season returns when dates are confirmed.

Shanghai Address Book: hotels, tables and museums →

November 10–15, 2026

Upcoming

Shanghai’s principal international art-and-design fair anchors a wider week of museum exhibitions, gallery programmes and collecting along the West Bund.

West Bund International Convention and Exhibition Center, West Bund Art Center, GATE M Dream Center, and ORBIT · West Bund, Xuhui District

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November 12–15, 2026

Upcoming

Shanghai’s Jing’an contemporary fair returns to the Exhibition Center as the twin autumn appointment to West Bund Art & Design.

Shanghai Exhibition Center · Jing’an, 1000 Middle Yan’an Road, with citywide programmes during Shanghai art week

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March 4–7, 2027

Upcoming

Shanghai’s international design fair brings Chinese studios, manufacturers and material research into direct view alongside brands and practitioners from abroad.

Shanghai Exhibition Centre · Jing’an, with Design in the City programming across Shanghai

Where to stay and how to plan →