2015: Year of the Wood Goat
The 2015 Chinese zodiac year is the Yin Wood Goat, and it runs from 19 February 2015 to 7 February 2016 — not from 1 January.
- Animal
- Goat 羊
- Element and polarity
- Yin Wood
- Gan-Zhi
- Yi Wei 乙未
- Age this zodiac year
- Born in 2015, a person turns 11 during the 2026 year
Born early in 2015? You may be Horse, not Goat
Chinese New Year 2015 fell on 19 February 2015. Anyone born between 1 January 2015 and 18 February 2015 — a window of 49 days — belongs to the 2014 zodiac year, the Yang Wood Horse, and not to the Goat.
Check an exact birth date against the 19 February 2015 boundary.
Exact 2015 zodiac year dates
The 2015 lunar year ran its ordinary twelve months, 354 days in total.
Other Goat years around 2015
| Goat year | Complete name | Begins |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Yin Earth Goat | 28 January 1979 |
| 1991 | Yin Metal Goat | 15 February 1991 |
| 2003 | Yin Water Goat | 1 February 2003 |
| 2027 | Yin Fire Goat | 6 February 2027 |
| 2039 | Yin Earth Goat | 24 January 2039 |
| 2051 | Yin Metal Goat | 11 February 2051 |
The exact pairing 乙未 — Yin Wood Goat — returns only once every sixty years: 1955, 2075.