2024: Year of the Wood Dragon
The 2024 Chinese zodiac year is the Yang Wood Dragon, and it runs from 10 February 2024 to 28 January 2025 — not from 1 January.
- Animal
- Dragon 龙
- Element and polarity
- Yang Wood
- Gan-Zhi
- Jia Chen 甲辰
- Age this zodiac year
- Born in 2024, a person turns 2 during the 2026 year
Born early in 2024? You may be Rabbit, not Dragon
Chinese New Year 2024 fell on 10 February 2024. Anyone born between 1 January 2024 and 9 February 2024 — a window of 40 days — belongs to the 2023 zodiac year, the Yin Water Rabbit, and not to the Dragon.
Check an exact birth date against the 10 February 2024 boundary.
Exact 2024 zodiac year dates
The 2024 lunar year ran its ordinary twelve months, 354 days in total.
Other Dragon years around 2024
| Dragon year | Complete name | Begins |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Yang Earth Dragon | 17 February 1988 |
| 2000 | Yang Metal Dragon | 5 February 2000 |
| 2012 | Yang Water Dragon | 23 January 2012 |
| 2036 | Yang Fire Dragon | 28 January 2036 |
| 2048 | Yang Earth Dragon | 14 February 2048 |
| 2060 | Yang Metal Dragon | 2 February 2060 |
The exact pairing 甲辰 — Yang Wood Dragon — returns only once every sixty years: 1904, 1964, 2084.