Chinese New Year dates, 1902 to 2100

How to read the table

Each row gives the Gregorian date of the new year, its day of the week, and the animal and element of the lunar year that starts that day. The year ends on the eve of the next row. Someone born in January or February before the date shown belongs to the row above. The dates are those of the Chinese calendar as published by the Hong Kong Observatory, which computes it for China's time zone, eight hours ahead of UTC.

1902 to 1999

2000 to 2100

The days around the new year

The festival season runs from New Year's Eve, the last day of the twelfth month, when families gather for a reunion dinner, to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. The tool at the top of the page gives the eve and the Lantern Festival for any year. Public holidays differ by place: Hong Kong gazettes three general holidays for the new year, while in mainland China the State Council publishes a schedule each year that often moves weekend working days.