Panda Express Hours 2026
Panda Express hours for 2026 straight from three real restaurants in Los Angeles, Dallas and New York — plus an honest look at holiday hours, since Panda Express doesn’t publish one national holiday-hours policy.
Panda Express hours are set restaurant-by-restaurant, not nationally, so the exact time your local Panda Express opens and closes depends on which one you’re visiting. At the three restaurants we checked directly on 8 Sep 2026, the earliest open time was 9:30am (Los Angeles and Dallas) and the latest close time was 10:30pm (Dallas) — New York opens later and closes earlier on weekends than on weekdays. Panda Express does not publish one nationwide opening/closing schedule, so these Panda Express hours below are real, store-verified figures rather than a single guessed number. For the full menu at these same restaurants, see our Panda Express Menu Prices guide.
Panda Express Hours by Store
These Panda Express hours were pulled directly from each restaurant’s own official page on pandaexpress.com, the same three restaurants used for pricing throughout this guide — not a national average, not a third-party guess.
Los Angeles, CA — Whittier & Soto
741 S Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90023
| Monday – Sunday | 9:30am – 10:00pm |
Dallas, TX — I-75 & Lovers (listed by Panda Express as “Lovers & Greenville”)
5500 Greenville Ave #200, Dallas, TX 75206
| Monday – Sunday | 9:30am – 10:30pm |
New York, NY — First & 69th
1277 1st Ave, New York, NY 10065
| Monday – Friday | 10:30am – 10:00pm |
| Saturday – Sunday | 11:00am – 9:30pm |
New York is the only one of the three restaurants checked with different weekday and weekend Panda Express hours — it opens 30 minutes later and closes 30 minutes earlier on Saturday and Sunday than Monday through Friday. Los Angeles and Dallas both run the same hours every day of the week, though Dallas stays open a full hour later than Los Angeles each night.
Holiday Hours
Panda Express does not publish one national holiday-hours policy — we found no official pandaexpress.com page listing company-wide Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s hours, and each restaurant sets its own holiday schedule independently, the same way it sets its own everyday hours. Rather than guess a national holiday schedule that Panda Express itself doesn’t publish, this guide reports that gap honestly instead of inventing one.
The most reliable way to check whether a specific Panda Express is open on a given holiday is to look up that exact restaurant’s own page on pandaexpress.com or call ahead — the same way the Panda Express hours above were sourced for this guide’s three anchor restaurants. Many restaurants that share a shopping center or airport/travel location with other retailers also tend to follow that location’s own holiday schedule rather than a Panda Express-specific one, though this varies by store.
Frequently Asked Questions
What time does Panda Express open?
It depends on the restaurant. At the three stores we checked on 8 Sep 2026, Los Angeles and Dallas both opened at 9:30am every day, while New York opened at 10:30am on weekdays and 11:00am on weekends.
What time does Panda Express close?
Closing times varied by restaurant in our check: Los Angeles closed at 10:00pm every day, Dallas closed at 10:30pm every day, and New York closed at 10:00pm on weekdays and 9:30pm on weekends.
Are Panda Express hours the same every day of the week?
Not always. Los Angeles and Dallas ran the same hours every day in our check, but New York opened later and closed earlier on Saturday and Sunday than on weekdays.
Is Panda Express open on Thanksgiving or Christmas?
Panda Express does not publish one national holiday-hours policy, so this varies by restaurant. Check your specific location’s own page on pandaexpress.com or call ahead before visiting on a major holiday.
Are Panda Express hours the same at every location?
No. Our three-restaurant check found real differences in both opening times and closing times, plus one location (New York) with different weekday and weekend hours. Hours are set restaurant-by-restaurant, not nationally.
Our Methodology
This update was researched on 8 Sep 2026. Panda Express hours above were pulled directly from each restaurant’s own official location page on pandaexpress.com — the same three restaurants used for pricing throughout this cluster, not a third-party hours aggregator or a national estimate.
Stores checked: Panda Express Whittier & Soto, 741 S Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90023; Panda Express I-75 & Lovers (listed by Panda Express as “Lovers & Greenville”), 5500 Greenville Ave #200, Dallas, TX 75206; and Panda Express First & 69th, 1277 1st Ave, New York, NY 10065.
No official first-party Panda Express holiday-hours page was found at the time of this check — that gap is disclosed above rather than filled with an invented schedule. Hours at a specific Panda Express near you can differ from the three restaurants checked here, especially at locations inside shopping centers, airports, universities or travel stops, which commonly follow their host location’s hours.