Monkey in 2026
2026 is a Horse year. Monkey and Horse occupy branches 申 and 午.
This pair has no shared harmony, trine, seasonal meeting or Six Clash in the four groups shown here.
Read Monkey with Horse →Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water Monkey
Wood Monkey
Years: 1944, 2004.
The Monkey's Metal controls Wood, bringing a talent for reshaping a problem into contact with the year element's emphasis on growth. The Wood Monkey reading turns ingenuity toward developing a shared project, with an interest in improving how people work together and a temptation to keep revising the arrangement.
Wood Monkey birth dates and next year →Fire Monkey
Years: 1956, 2016.
Fire controls the Monkey's Metal, adding pressure and outward expression to a sign traditionally associated with quick invention. The Fire Monkey reading centres on an idea demonstrated in action, a lively exchange or an ambitious experiment, with impatience when the opportunity to try something is delayed by routine.
Fire Monkey birth dates and next year →Earth Monkey
Years: 1908, 1968, 2028.
Earth produces the Monkey's Metal, supporting the sign's traditional ingenuity with a stronger attachment to practical means and usable results. This reading describes the Earth Monkey through experiments that solve an everyday problem, attention to available resources and a willingness to repeat a method once it proves useful.
Earth Monkey birth dates and next year →Metal Monkey
Years: 1920, 1980, 2040.
Metal repeats the Monkey's own element, concentrating the traditional association with quick distinctions, dexterity and an ability to rearrange the pieces. The Metal Monkey reading emphasizes a sharply focused solution and confidence in its own technique, with a competitive edge when another person questions how the problem should be handled.
Metal Monkey birth dates and next year →Water Monkey
Years: 1932, 1992.
The Monkey's Metal generates Water, carrying its traditional inventiveness into exchange, adaptation and the discovery of alternative routes. The Water Monkey reading places wit and social observation together, describing an ability to change an approach mid-conversation and a tendency to keep experimenting after a workable answer has appeared.
Water Monkey birth dates and next year →Monkey personality traits
The Monkey's traditional character is inventive, sociable and attracted to a problem with an unexpected solution. It learns through trying things, spotting a shortcut and seeing whether an established rule can be used differently. Quickness becomes a challenge when novelty matters more than finishing or when cleverness puts another person at a disadvantage. Its distinctive contribution is making a stuck situation move by noticing an option others have missed.
Monkey: best and difficult matches
Rat: Monkey and Rat share the Water trine; Dragon completes their three-animal group.
Tiger: Monkey (申) stands six positions opposite Tiger (寅), the contrast called a Six Clash in the traditional pairing.
Dragon: Monkey and Dragon share the Water trine; Rat completes their three-animal group.
Snake: Monkey (申) and Snake (巳) form one of the six fixed harmony pairs, traditionally read as a complementary connection.
All twelve Monkey compatibility pairings →Five forms · one twelve-day rhythm
The next Monkey days
The branch repeats every twelve days. Its stem advances too, so these five occurrences have five different stem elements before the complete name repeats after sixty days. The Monkey branch itself keeps Metal.
Yang Fire
19 September 2026
Yang Fire Monkey · 丙申
Na Yin: Mountain-foot Fire · 山下火
Open this date’s planning window →Yang Earth
1 October 2026
Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申
Na Yin: Great Post-road Earth · 大驿土
Open this date’s planning window →Yang Metal
13 October 2026
Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申
Na Yin: Pomegranate Wood · 石榴木
Open this date’s planning window →Yang Water
25 October 2026
Yang Water Monkey · 壬申
Na Yin: Sword-edge Metal · 剑锋金
Open this date’s planning window →Yang Wood
6 November 2026
Yang Wood Monkey · 甲申
Na Yin: Spring Water · 泉中水
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The Na Yin name belongs to the complete pillar. It is a separate pairing from the stem’s element and the branch’s fixed element.
Chinese New Year to the final lunar day
Monkey years and their exact boundaries
Use the interval, not just the Gregorian year number, for a birthday near January or February. A full Monkey element-name returns sixty years later; the animal alone returns after twelve.
戊申 · Yang Earth Monkey
1908 Monkey year
2 February 1908 through 21 January 1909
庚申 · Yang Metal Monkey
1920 Monkey year
20 February 1920 through 7 February 1921
壬申 · Yang Water Monkey
1932 Monkey year
6 February 1932 through 25 January 1933
甲申 · Yang Wood Monkey
1944 Monkey year
25 January 1944 through 12 February 1945
丙申 · Yang Fire Monkey
1956 Monkey year
12 February 1956 through 30 January 1957
戊申 · Yang Earth Monkey
1968 Monkey year
30 January 1968 through 16 February 1969
庚申 · Yang Metal Monkey
1980 Monkey year
16 February 1980 through 4 February 1981
壬申 · Yang Water Monkey
1992 Monkey year
4 February 1992 through 22 January 1993
甲申 · Yang Wood Monkey
2004 Monkey year
22 January 2004 through 8 February 2005
丙申 · Yang Fire Monkey
2016 Monkey year
8 February 2016 through 27 January 2017
戊申 · Yang Earth Monkey
2028 Monkey year
26 January 2028 through 12 February 2029
庚申 · Yang Metal Monkey
2040 Monkey year
12 February 2040 through 31 January 2041
Solar month · clock period
The Monkey month and double-hour
Autumn branch month
Beginning of Autumn opens the Monkey month at 7 August 2026, 19:42:43 UTC+8. It runs until White Dew at 7 September 2026, 22:41:16 UTC+8.
These are solar-term instants, not the first days of numbered lunar months.
Follow the whole autumn season →15:00–16:59
The Monkey double-hour occupies position 9 in the twelve-branch clock. It follows Goat and precedes Rooster. A double-hour label describes a time of day; it does not determine the year or day animal.
The sets containing Monkey
Harmony, season, trine and clash
Six Harmonies
Paired branches
This is a fixed two-branch pairing.
Three Harmonies · trines
Water
These three animals form the full set; two animals show shared membership.
Three Meetings · seasons
Autumn · Metal
These three animals form the full set; two animals show shared membership.
Six Clashes
Opposite branches
This is a fixed two-branch pairing.
The stems held inside Monkey
Hidden stems are attached to the branch. The visible stem on a particular Monkey day is the first character of that day’s two-character name.