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Find your Chinese zodiac sign from your birth date. The lunar New Year boundary is included; learn why January and February births can belong to the previous zodiac year.
Calculation and interpretation method
The year animal is derived from the related year of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. The year does not begin on January 1; the New Year boundary is applied to the actual birth date. This simple tool does not calculate a four-pillar BaZi chart, an hour pillar or a full Chinese astrology chart.
Check the New Year boundary using your birthday
Enter the full day, month and year of birth. Especially for January or February, examine the converted Chinese calendar year rather than only the Gregorian year. In 2020, January 24 belongs to the preceding Pig year and January 25 to the new Rat year. After finding the animal, choose one guide theme and write an example from experience without assuming everyone born that year behaves alike.
Record year element separately from animal name. An animal returning after twelve years does not imply the same element. Use the full day when checking an official conversion table, and distinguish a different BaZi year-boundary convention from this animal-year calculation.
The lunisolar calendar and year animal
The entered day is converted with the browser's supported Intl Chinese calendar; an approximate animal is not substituted when support is unavailable. This calendar-day tool does not calculate birth time or location. A year animal repeats after twelve years, while the same animal-and-element combination belongs to a longer cycle. Full BaZi readings consider year, month, day and hour pillars and different boundary conventions. Hong Kong Observatory explains calendar conversion rather than scientifically measuring personality themes assigned to a year animal.
Sources and approach
These sources explain the page's traditional concepts or calculation context. Original Starmora examples and reflection prompts are not predictions attributed to the sources.