2025: Year of the Wood Snake
The 2025 Chinese zodiac year is the Yin Wood Snake, and it runs from 29 January 2025 to 16 February 2026 — not from 1 January.
- Animal
- Snake 蛇
- Element and polarity
- Yin Wood
- Gan-Zhi
- Yi Si 乙巳
- Age this zodiac year
- Born in 2025, a person turns 1 during the 2026 year
Born early in 2025? You may be Dragon, not Snake
Chinese New Year 2025 fell on 29 January 2025. Anyone born between 1 January 2025 and 28 January 2025 — a window of 28 days — belongs to the 2024 zodiac year, the Yang Wood Dragon, and not to the Snake.
Check an exact birth date against the 29 January 2025 boundary.
Exact 2025 zodiac year dates
The 2025 lunar year carried a leap month, stretching it to 384 days — which is why the following Chinese New Year falls comparatively late.
Other Snake years around 2025
| Snake year | Complete name | Begins |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Yin Earth Snake | 6 February 1989 |
| 2001 | Yin Metal Snake | 24 January 2001 |
| 2013 | Yin Water Snake | 10 February 2013 |
| 2037 | Yin Fire Snake | 15 February 2037 |
| 2049 | Yin Earth Snake | 2 February 2049 |
| 2061 | Yin Metal Snake | 21 January 2061 |
The exact pairing 乙巳 — Yin Wood Snake — returns only once every sixty years: 1905, 1965, 2085.