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2025 is the year of the Wood Snake in the Chinese calendar, from 29 January 2025 to 16 February 2026: 384 days, 13 lunar months, including leap month 6. Born before 29 January 2025? That is still the Wood Dragon year.
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384 days · Year of the Wood Snake
Sexagenary year
Wood generates Fire: the year stem is Wood, while theSnake's fixed phase is Fire.
Length
384 days
Across 13 lunar months.
Leap month
Month 6
29 days in the repeated month.
Beginning of Spring
Twice
立春 falls twice — a double-spring year, 双春年.
Year name explained
Why Wood Snake
Wood generates Fire in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Snake’s fixed element.
The animal repeats every 12 years, while the stem-and-branch pairing repeats every 60. The element in “Wood Snake” comes from the year's heavenly stem; it is distinct from the animal's conventional fixed phase. Read the calendar glossary.
The 13 lunar months of 2025
A lunar month begins on the day of the new moon, so its Gregorian start date moves every year. These are the exact correspondences for 2025.
| Lunar month | Begins | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 29 January 2025 | 30 |
| Month 2 | 28 February 2025 | 29 |
| Month 3 | 29 March 2025 | 30 |
| Month 4 | 28 April 2025 | 29 |
| Month 5 | 27 May 2025 | 29 |
| Month 6 | 25 June 2025 | 30 |
| Leap month 6 | 25 July 2025 | 29 |
| Month 7 | 23 August 2025 | 30 |
| Month 8 | 22 September 2025 | 29 |
| Month 9 | 21 October 2025 | 30 |
| Month 10 | 20 November 2025 | 30 |
| Month 11 | 20 December 2025 | 30 |
| Month 12 | 19 January 2026 | 29 |
The solar year within it
25 solar terms
Solar terms track the sun rather than the moon, so they sit at almost the same Gregorian date every year while the lunar months move by weeks. A twelve-month year is about eleven days shorter than the solar year and so holds fewer of them than a thirteen-month one.
- Beginning of Spring立春3 February 2025 · 22:10:28 UTC+8
- Rain Water雨水18 February 2025 · 18:06:34 UTC+8
- Awakening of Insects惊蛰5 March 2025 · 16:07:18 UTC+8
- Spring Equinox春分20 March 2025 · 17:01:29 UTC+8
- Pure Brightness清明4 April 2025 · 20:48:36 UTC+8
- Grain Rain谷雨20 April 2025 · 03:56:01 UTC+8
- Beginning of Summer立夏5 May 2025 · 13:57:13 UTC+8
- Grain Buds小满21 May 2025 · 02:54:39 UTC+8
- Grain in Ear芒种5 June 2025 · 17:56:32 UTC+8
- Summer Solstice夏至21 June 2025 · 10:42:16 UTC+8
- Minor Heat小暑7 July 2025 · 04:04:59 UTC+8
- Major Heat大暑22 July 2025 · 21:29:27 UTC+8
- Beginning of Autumn立秋7 August 2025 · 13:51:35 UTC+8
- End of Heat处暑23 August 2025 · 04:33:51 UTC+8
- White Dew白露7 September 2025 · 16:51:57 UTC+8
- Autumn Equinox秋分23 September 2025 · 02:19:20 UTC+8
- Cold Dew寒露8 October 2025 · 08:41:13 UTC+8
- Frost's Descent霜降23 October 2025 · 11:50:56 UTC+8
- Beginning of Winter立冬7 November 2025 · 12:04:04 UTC+8
- Minor Snow小雪22 November 2025 · 09:35:35 UTC+8
- Major Snow大雪7 December 2025 · 05:04:37 UTC+8
- Winter Solstice冬至21 December 2025 · 23:03:05 UTC+8
- Minor Cold小寒5 January 2026 · 16:23:10 UTC+8
- Major Cold大寒20 January 2026 · 09:44:56 UTC+8
- Beginning of Spring立春4 February 2026 · 04:02:08 UTC+8
Moving Gregorian dates
Festivals in the 2025 lunar year
Most follow numbered lunar dates; Qingming and Winter Solstice follow exact solar-term instants. Open a festival to see its rule.
- 29 January 2025lunar 1/1
- 12 February 2025lunar 1/15
- 31 May 2025lunar 5/5
- 29 August 2025lunar 7/7
- 6 September 2025lunar 7/15
- 6 October 2025lunar 8/15
- 29 October 2025lunar 9/9
- 26 January 2026lunar 12/8
- 16 February 2026lunar 12/29
Gregorian index
Month by month in 2025
Each Gregorian month of 2025, with the lunar dates and day pillars it covers.