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Explore the complete almanac: practical tools, twelve animal guides, five element guides, the Gan-Zhi cycle, the 24 solar terms, sixty element–animal profiles, and reference guides.
Tools
- Chinese zodiac calculator — find your animal, element, and lunar-year dates from a birth date.
- Chinese zodiac years — look up any year's animal and Chinese New Year boundary.
- Five zodiac elements — understand year-stem, fixed animal, day-master and Na Yin element coordinates.
- Gan-Zhi cycle — read heavenly stems and earthly branches in a complete year name.
- Solar terms and branch seasons — understand every term shown on a year page and how twelve Jie open the animal months.
- My Chinese zodiac year — when your birth animal returns (ben ming nian) and the age you reach in each.
- Chinese zodiac compatibility — the traditional relationship between any two of the twelve animals.
Site information
- About — what the tools and guides cover.
- Contact — how to reach the maintainers and report a date error.
- Privacy — what happens to the dates you enter.
- Terms of use — the terms the reference is offered under.
Twelve animal guides
Reference guides
- Compatible Chinese Zodiac Signs— How the four trines and Six Harmonies (secret-friend) pairs group the Chinese zodiac animals and what each traditional pairing means.
- Incompatible Chinese Zodiac Signs— The six clashing Chinese zodiac pairs, how each opposition follows the cycle, and what the traditional pairing means.
- Chinese Zodiac Sign Characteristics— All twelve Chinese zodiac animals side by side, comparing the strengths and challenges traditionally associated with each, and the Yin-Yang pattern running through them.
- How the Chinese Zodiac Works— How the twelve earthly branches, ten heavenly stems and five elements combine into the sixty-year Chinese zodiac cycle, and why a year starts at Chinese New Year.
- Legends of the Chinese Zodiac— The Great Race story that explains the order of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, the Cat variant, and why the legend follows the calendar rather than creating it.
- Why Your Zodiac Sign Changes at Chinese New Year— A Chinese zodiac year begins at Chinese New Year, not 1 January. See which year is running and why January or early-February births may belong to the previous animal.
Five element result guides
- Wood 木— stems, fixed animal branches, exact years, and all twelve Wood animal types.
- Fire 火— stems, fixed animal branches, exact years, and all twelve Fire animal types.
- Earth 土— stems, fixed animal branches, exact years, and all twelve Earth animal types.
- Metal 金— stems, fixed animal branches, exact years, and all twelve Metal animal types.
- Water 水— stems, fixed animal branches, exact years, and all twelve Water animal types.