2017: Year of the Fire Rooster
The 2017 Chinese zodiac year is the Yin Fire Rooster, and it runs from 28 January 2017 to 15 February 2018 — not from 1 January.
- Animal
- Rooster 鸡
- Element and polarity
- Yin Fire
- Gan-Zhi
- Ding You 丁酉
- Age this zodiac year
- Born in 2017, a person turns 9 during the 2026 year
Born early in 2017? You may be Monkey, not Rooster
Chinese New Year 2017 fell on 28 January 2017. Anyone born between 1 January 2017 and 27 January 2017 — a window of 27 days — belongs to the 2016 zodiac year, the Yang Fire Monkey, and not to the Rooster.
Check an exact birth date against the 28 January 2017 boundary.
Exact 2017 zodiac year dates
The 2017 lunar year carried a leap month, stretching it to 384 days — which is why the following Chinese New Year falls comparatively late.
Other Rooster years around 2017
| Rooster year | Complete name | Begins |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Yin Metal Rooster | 5 February 1981 |
| 1993 | Yin Water Rooster | 23 January 1993 |
| 2005 | Yin Wood Rooster | 9 February 2005 |
| 2029 | Yin Earth Rooster | 13 February 2029 |
| 2041 | Yin Metal Rooster | 1 February 2041 |
| 2053 | Yin Water Rooster | 19 February 2053 |
The exact pairing 丁酉 — Yin Fire Rooster — returns only once every sixty years: 1957, 2077.