2026 and 2027
Chinese New Year 2027: Saturday, February 6
The 2027 lunar new year falls on a Saturday. Here are the dates around it, the holidays already published, and what the Goat year changes for the zodiac.
Chinese New Year 2027: date and countdown
Chinese New Year 2027, year of the Fire Goat
Saturday, February 6, 2027
| Counted from November 5, 2026 | 93 days later |
| New Year's Eve | February 5, 2027 |
| Lantern Festival (15th day) | February 20, 2027 |
| Spring Commences | February 4, 2027 |
| Year ends | January 25, 2028 |
Dates of the Chinese calendar as published in the Hong Kong Observatory conversion tables.
Year of the GoatChinese New Year 2027 falls on Saturday, February 6, 2027: it is the first day of the first lunar month in the Hong Kong Observatory's conversion table for 2027, which names the year Ding-Wei, the year of the Goat. New Year's Eve, the night of the reunion dinner, is Friday, February 5, 2027, the last day of the Horse year. The Lantern Festival, on the fifteenth day of the first month, falls on February 20, 2027. Spring Commences, the solar term that opens the year in Four Pillars charts, comes two days before the new year, on February 4, 2027. In Hong Kong, the government has gazetted the first, third and fourth days of the new year as general holidays, because the second day is a Sunday. In the United States the date is not a federal holiday; it is marked by community parades and school calendars that vary by district.
New year or Spring Commences?
2027: the two start dates
2 days apart
| Lunar new year | Feb 6, 2027 |
| Spring Commences | Feb 4, 2027 |
| Births with two answers | Feb 4, 2027 to Feb 5, 2027 |
Dates read in the HKO tables by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method and sources
The calendar around February 6, 2027
| Day | Date | Lunar date |
|---|---|---|
| New Year's Eve | Friday, Feb 5, 2027 | 12th month, last day |
| New Year's Day | Saturday, Feb 6, 2027 | 1st month, day 1 |
| Second day | Sunday, Feb 7, 2027 | 1st month, day 2 |
| Third day | Monday, Feb 8, 2027 | 1st month, day 3 |
| Fourth day | Tuesday, Feb 9, 2027 | 1st month, day 4 |
| Lantern Festival | Saturday, Feb 20, 2027 | 1st month, day 15 |
The first fifteen days are a single festival season, closed by the lanterns of the first full moon. Families keep their own customs for each day, visits to relatives, temple fairs, quiet days at home, and those customs vary from one region and one family to the next.
Holidays already published
Hong Kong's list of general holidays for 2027 gives Lunar New Year's Day on Saturday, February 6, then the third day on Monday, February 8, and the fourth day on Tuesday, February 9, in place of the second day, which falls on a Sunday. Mainland China's schedule for 2027 had not been published by the State Council on November 1, 2026; when it is, it will set the days off and any weekend working days. In the United States, the date is not a federal holiday. Some school districts close for it: New York City made it a public school holiday from the 2015-2016 school year. In 2027 the new year itself falls on a Saturday.
Which animal is this year?
Lunar year starting in 2027
Fire Goat
| Starts | February 6, 2027 |
| Ends | January 25, 2028 |
| Stem-branch | Ding-Wei 丁未 |
| Yin or yang | yin |
Horse to Goat: what changes for the zodiac
Babies born up to February 5, 2027 are Fire Horses; from February 6 they are Fire Goats, under the usual new year rule. Under the Spring Commences rule of Four Pillars charts, the change comes two days earlier, on February 4, so births on February 4 and 5, 2027 have two answers. The page on the 2027 zodiac covers the Goat year itself.
Why February 6
The first month begins with the second new moon after the winter solstice in most years. The 2026 lunar year had no leap month, so the new year moves back eleven days from February 17, 2026.