2022: Year of the Water Tiger
The 2022 Chinese zodiac year is the Yang Water Tiger, and it runs from 1 February 2022 to 21 January 2023 — not from 1 January.
- Animal
- Tiger 虎
- Element and polarity
- Yang Water
- Gan-Zhi
- Ren Yin 壬寅
- Age this zodiac year
- Born in 2022, a person turns 4 during the 2026 year
Born early in 2022? You may be Ox, not Tiger
Chinese New Year 2022 fell on 1 February 2022. Anyone born between 1 January 2022 and 31 January 2022 — a window of 31 days — belongs to the 2021 zodiac year, the Yin Metal Ox, and not to the Tiger.
Check an exact birth date against the 1 February 2022 boundary.
Exact 2022 zodiac year dates
The 2022 lunar year ran its ordinary twelve months, 355 days in total.
Other Tiger years around 2022
| Tiger year | Complete name | Begins |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Yang Fire Tiger | 9 February 1986 |
| 1998 | Yang Earth Tiger | 28 January 1998 |
| 2010 | Yang Metal Tiger | 14 February 2010 |
| 2034 | Yang Wood Tiger | 19 February 2034 |
| 2046 | Yang Fire Tiger | 6 February 2046 |
| 2058 | Yang Earth Tiger | 24 January 2058 |
The exact pairing 壬寅 — Yang Water Tiger — returns only once every sixty years: 1902, 1962, 2082.