How to use Chinese zodiac year calculator
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Enter a birth date
Chinese lunar is preselected for a lunar birth date; for a Western birthday, choose Gregorian under Convert from and pick the date.
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Read the zodiac sign
The Chinese lunar card shows the animal and element of the lunar year with the lunar month and day.
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Check the year boundary
For a birthday in January or February, compare it with that year's Lunar New Year in the chart.
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See the Korean and Japanese versions
The Korean lunar card gives the Dangi year and the Japanese era card the eto counted from 1 January.
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About Chinese zodiac year calculator
Your Chinese zodiac sign is the animal of the lunar year you were born in, and a lunar year starts at Lunar New Year, between 21 January and 20 February. Charts that list only the Western year get January and early February birthdays wrong: someone born on 5 February 2026 is a Snake, because the Year of the Horse began on 17 February. Enter a birth date here and the Chinese lunar card shows the lunar month and day, the zodiac animal and its element, and the year's stem-branch name, 丙午 for 2026.
The twelve animals repeat in order, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig, while the five elements, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, each last two years, so the same animal and element return every 60 years. 2026 is a Fire Horse year; the last one was 1966.
Lunar dates come from the Hong Kong Observatory's conversion tables for 1901 to 2100, not from the browser's own Chinese calendar, which in current Chrome and Node versions puts Chinese New Year 2027 on 7 February instead of 6 February. Korean dates come from the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, because Korea's lunar calendar runs on Korean time: Seollal 2027 is on 7 February, a day after Chinese New Year.
The chart below lists every year from 1924 to 2043 with its animal, element, stem-branch, Lunar New Year date and, where it differs, Korean Seollal. In Japan the zodiac year is usually counted from 1 January; the Japanese era card shows that version.
Privacy
The lunar calendar tables are part of this page, so looking up a birth date happens entirely in your browser and the date is not sent anywhere. Only the last date you entered is kept, in this browser's local storage.
Features
Animal by lunar year
The sign follows Lunar New Year, so January and February birthdays get the right animal.
Hong Kong Observatory data
Lunar dates for 1901–2100 from the observatory's official tables, not a browser estimate.
120-year chart
Animal, element, stem-branch and New Year dates in China and Korea from 1924 to 2043.