2016: Year of the Fire Monkey
The 2016 Chinese zodiac year is the Yang Fire Monkey, and it runs from 8 February 2016 to 27 January 2017 — not from 1 January.
- Animal
- Monkey 猴
- Element and polarity
- Yang Fire
- Gan-Zhi
- Bing Shen 丙申
- Age this zodiac year
- Born in 2016, a person turns 10 during the 2026 year
Born early in 2016? You may be Goat, not Monkey
Chinese New Year 2016 fell on 8 February 2016. Anyone born between 1 January 2016 and 7 February 2016 — a window of 38 days — belongs to the 2015 zodiac year, the Yin Wood Goat, and not to the Monkey.
Check an exact birth date against the 8 February 2016 boundary.
Exact 2016 zodiac year dates
The 2016 lunar year ran its ordinary twelve months, 355 days in total.
Other Monkey years around 2016
| Monkey year | Complete name | Begins |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Yang Metal Monkey | 16 February 1980 |
| 1992 | Yang Water Monkey | 4 February 1992 |
| 2004 | Yang Wood Monkey | 22 January 2004 |
| 2028 | Yang Earth Monkey | 26 January 2028 |
| 2040 | Yang Metal Monkey | 12 February 2040 |
| 2052 | Yang Water Monkey | 1 February 2052 |
The exact pairing 丙申 — Yang Fire Monkey — returns only once every sixty years: 1956, 2076.