Free online Chinese zodiac calculator. Find your zodiac animal by birth year or exact birthday, with Lunar New Year and Li Chun conventions, plus age and zodiac year info
Quick lookup by birth year, or enter your full birthday for an exact result around the year boundary
The popular Lunar New Year boundary is the default; switch to the Li Chun (Beginning of Spring) convention used in some traditions
See both your western age and the traditional Chinese nominal age, whose difference is clearest for January-February births
The tool lists recent and upcoming years of your animal so you can see every 12-year cycle at a glance
Built-in Lunar New Year and Li Chun date tables for over 200 years, based on Hong Kong Observatory lunar data
Everything runs in your browser - no uploads, no sign-up, and the data tables work offline
Choose "Query by birth year" if you only know the year, or "Query by exact birthday" if you have the full date - important for January and February births.
In year mode type a four-digit year (e.g. 1990). In date mode pick your Gregorian birthday with the date field.
The default is Lunar New Year. If your birth is near the boundary and you follow astrological conventions, switch to Li Chun and compare.
The result card shows your zodiac animal, the lunar year, your ages and your zodiac years. Use Copy Result to save or share it.
Parents check a newborn's zodiac animal for naming ideas and keepsakes - use the birthday mode when born near the New Year
Many people follow customs such as wearing red in their benming year; knowing when yours falls helps you plan ahead
Compare zodiac animals at gatherings and work out age gaps between friends and family as an icebreaker
Students of Chinese culture can pair the zodiac with the earthly branches and the 12-year cycle
When Chinese bios mention "born in the Year of the Horse", check the exact mapping before using it
Creators making zodiac-themed artwork or copy need accurate year-to-animal mappings year by year
The Chinese zodiac pairs the twelve earthly branches with twelve animals: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig, in a repeating 12-year cycle. Folk tales such as the great race offer memorable explanations of the ordering, and the cycle still shapes calendars, greetings and design worldwide.
Chinese years combine ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches into a 60-year sexagenary cycle, so each year has both an animal and a ganzhi name such as Jia-Chen, Yi-Si or Bing-Wu. Because the stem cycles over 60 years, each animal recurs five times per full cycle. 2024 is Jia-Chen (Dragon), 2025 Yi-Si (Snake) and 2026 Bing-Wu (Horse).
In everyday and official usage the zodiac year begins at Lunar New Year (the first day of the first lunar month). Traditional Chinese astrology instead divides the year at Li Chun, the Beginning of Spring, which usually falls on February 3-5. Near the boundary the two conventions can disagree by a few days, so this tool labels the convention it used.
Western age counts Gregorian birthdays, while the Chinese nominal age counts 1 at birth and adds one at every Lunar New Year, making it usually 1-2 years higher. The gap is largest for people born in January or February. The calculator shows both values as an approximation for reference.
| Year | Zodiac | Spring Festival Date |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 🐍 Snake | 2025-01-29 |
| 2026 | 🐴 Horse | 2026-02-17 |
| 2027 | 🐑 Goat | 2027-02-06 |
| 2028 | 🐵 Monkey | 2028-01-26 |
| 2029 | 🐔 Rooster | 2029-02-13 |
| 2030 | 🐶 Dog | 2030-02-03 |
| 2031 | 🐷 Pig | 2031-01-23 |
| 2032 | 🐭 Rat | 2032-02-11 |
| 2033 | 🐮 Ox | 2033-01-31 |
| 2034 | 🐯 Tiger | 2034-02-19 |
| 2035 | 🐰 Rabbit | 2035-02-08 |
| 2036 | 🐲 Dragon | 2036-01-28 |