12 Chinese
Zodiac Signs
12 November 2026
Chinese zodiac calculator
Your Chinese zodiac sign comes from your birth date, checked against that year’s Chinese New Year. Enter the date below to get your animal, your element and your zodiac year.
Each year has its own page with its animal, element and the exact Chinese New Year dates it runs between.
Using the calculator
The Chinese zodiac is tied to the lunar calendar. A zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year, which falls between 21 January and 20 February, so anyone born in January or early February must be checked against that year's boundary rather than the Gregorian year.
The calculator covers every birth date from 19 February 1901 through 28 January 2101.
Your year has an element, your animal keeps an element of its own in every year, and the day you were born has one too, called the day master. They describe different things, so each gets its own line.
Na Yin is an old poetic name, such as Sword Edge Metal, given to each two-year pair in the 60-year cycle. It sits under More details, separate from your year's element and your animal's own element.
Add a local birth time and birthplace time zone to compare it with the exact Li Chun instant. Leave the time blank to keep a date-only result. The Chinese New Year answer uses your entered civil birth date; this clock resolves the separate solar-year convention.
One result, several coordinates
“Element” can appear more than once because the calendar is describing different positions. The result labels the source of each value before it offers a deeper interpretation.
Worked year-name reading
A date inside the zodiac year from 19 February 2015 to 7 February 2016 first belongs to the Goat year. The year’s two-character coordinate then supplies the rest of the name.
Open the complete 2015 year record →Yin Wood
Goat
Gan-Zhi Yi Wei
Branch’s fixed elementEarthstays with Goat
Na Yin沙中金 · Metala separate pair classification
Day masterCalculated after a date is enteredcomes from the date’s day stem
