Chinese Zodiac Calculator
Find your animal and element using the actual New Year boundary.
Your animal follows the lunar year
The Chinese zodiac cycles through twelve animals. Its year does not begin on January 1: Chinese New Year falls in January or February. If you were born before that year's New Year, this calculator uses the previous lunar year. That is why simply looking up the Gregorian year can give the wrong animal.
We also show the year element from the traditional ten-year cycle. This is a birth-year overview, not a complete Four Pillars reading. It does not calculate the month, day or hour pillars. The supported dates use a bundled New Year table rather than a fixed February date.
- Exact New Year dates are available for 1920–2050.
- January and February births are checked against the boundary.
- The animal and year element are broad symbolic themes.