BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

China

Operational 84/84 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in China since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of China RSS feed

Zhejiang — Operational · 2/2 hosts upJiangsu — Operational · 2/2 hosts upJiangxi — Operational · 2/2 hosts upJilin — Operational · 2/2 hosts upLiaoning — Operational · 2/2 hosts upNingxia — Operational · 2/2 hosts upQinghai — Operational · 2/2 hosts upShanxi — Operational · 2/2 hosts upSichuan — Operational · 2/2 hosts upXinjiang — Operational · 2/2 hosts upYunnan — Operational · 2/2 hosts upInner Mongolia — Operational · 2/2 hosts upHunan — Operational · 2/2 hosts upChongqing — Operational · 2/2 hosts upHeilongjiang — Operational · 2/2 hosts upHebei — Operational · 2/2 hosts upGuizhou — Operational · 2/2 hosts upFujian — Operational · 2/2 hosts upGansu — Operational · 2/2 hosts upTianjin — Operational · 3/3 hosts upShandong — Operational · 3/3 hosts upShaanxi — Operational · 3/3 hosts upGuangxi — Operational · 3/3 hosts upHubei — Operational · 3/3 hosts upAnhui — Operational · 3/3 hosts upShanghai — Operational · 4/4 hosts upGuangdong — Operational · 5/5 hosts upBeijing — Operational · 12/12 hosts up
Regions right now Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Each dot is a state or province we measure separately, coloured by its status now; bigger dots have more hosts. The country is shaded in its overall status.
0incidents recorded
0total disruption
—longest incident
18outages measured since 2022
2reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days
Aug 1, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days
Oct 16Oct 230%50%100%
Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290 ms150 ms300 ms
Latency25–75%

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA

No disruptions recorded in China since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at China · 7 days

Oct 23Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 280%50%100%
Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.

Types
UDP Flood 65% · RST Flood 13% · DNS Flood 9% · TCP Flags Flood 5%
Duration
0% longer than 1 h · 100% under 20 min
Size
89% under 500 Mbit/s · 11% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
CHINANET BACKBONE 32% · CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone 18% · China Mobile Communications Group Co. 14%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

10 possible hijacks of networks in China, 12+ route leaks involving it.

  • Oct 28 22:41 AS4812 (CN) · 2 address blocks · confidence 8/10
  • Oct 27 23:01 AS4812 (CN) · 2 address blocks · confidence 8/10
  • Oct 27 07:51 AS10212 (CN) · 1 address blocks · confidence 8/10
  • Oct 26 21:38 AS4812 (CN) · 2 address blocks · confidence 8/10
  • Oct 26 09:45 AS10212 (CN) · 1 address blocks · confidence 8/10

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

18 incidents · 5 blackouts · 5 partial outages

Outages in China detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.

Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Jun 20, 2026 11:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 28% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 41% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Jul 24, 2025 08:5020 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 10% of normal
Apr 30, 2025 16:3040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 63% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 32% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:104 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:3050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 92% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 14:5040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 93% of normal
Jul 6, 2024 11:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 74% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 20% of normal
Jul 13, 2023 07:002 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal
Show all 18
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Jul 12, 2023 04:006 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 94% of normal
Apr 9, 2023 17:4022 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Apr 6, 2023 19:402 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 92% of normal
Apr 6, 2023 16:103 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Sep 1, 2022 08:5030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal
Aug 30, 2022 22:4030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 56% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker records 2 government-ordered shutdowns or blocks in China since 2019.

  • Apps and websites blocked (WhatsApp, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, Google, Facebook), since Jan 1, 2019 — ongoing
  • Apps and websites blocked (Social Networks, Mobile Internet Services), since May 20, 2019 — 11 days

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for China.

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.