Pig in 2026
2026 is a Horse year. Pig and Horse occupy branches 亥 and 午.
This pair has no shared harmony, trine, seasonal meeting or Six Clash in the four groups shown here.
Read Pig with Horse →Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water Pig
Wood Pig
Years: 1935, 1995.
The Pig's Water feeds Wood, carrying its traditional generosity into growth, encouragement and the formation of lasting connections. The Wood Pig reading emphasizes including others in a project or circle of friends, with an open willingness to contribute that can make it hard to distinguish kindness from overcommitment.
Wood Pig birth dates and next year →Fire Pig
Years: 1947, 2007.
The Pig's Water controls Fire, placing its easygoing openness alongside the year element's desire for lively expression and involvement. This reading gives the Fire Pig an enthusiastic approach to shared pleasures and personal causes, with generous feeling that can move faster than a careful consideration of the commitment.
Fire Pig birth dates and next year →Earth Pig
Years: 1959, 2019.
Earth controls the Pig's Water, giving the sign's traditional openness a stronger attachment to settled routines and tangible forms of care. The Earth Pig reading focuses on a well-kept welcome, practical generosity and enjoyment of familiar comforts, with resistance when those comforts have become difficult to set aside.
Earth Pig birth dates and next year →Metal Pig
Years: 1911, 1971, 2031.
Metal feeds the Pig's Water, supporting its traditional sincerity while adding the year element's concern with commitment and clear personal standards. In the Metal Pig reading, generosity carries conviction: an offer is meant wholeheartedly, a friendship is taken seriously and disappointment is keen when that openness is taken lightly.
Metal Pig birth dates and next year →Water Pig
Years: 1923, 1983, 2043.
Water repeats the Pig's own element, concentrating the traditional association with receptiveness, easy company and an inclination to trust. The Water Pig reading emphasizes warmth that adapts to different people and a ready appreciation of shared enjoyment, with difficulty drawing a line when another request follows an earlier kindness.
Water Pig birth dates and next year →Pig personality traits
Traditional descriptions of the Pig emphasize sincerity, generosity and ease in giving or receiving hospitality. It approaches company with an open manner and values pleasures that can be shared without elaborate conditions. Trust and enjoyment also create its characteristic difficulties: a promise may be accepted too readily, or a comfortable habit kept too long. The centre of this portrait is a generous welcome and the judgment needed to sustain it.
Pig: best and difficult matches
Tiger: Pig (亥) and Tiger (寅) form one of the six fixed harmony pairs, traditionally read as a complementary connection.
Rabbit: Pig and Rabbit share the Wood trine; Goat completes their three-animal group.
Snake: Pig (亥) stands six positions opposite Snake (巳), the contrast called a Six Clash in the traditional pairing.
Goat: Pig and Goat share the Wood trine; Rabbit completes their three-animal group.
All twelve Pig compatibility pairings →Five forms · one twelve-day rhythm
The next Pig 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 Pig branch itself keeps Water.
Yin Earth
22 September 2026
Yin Earth Pig · 己亥
Na Yin: Level-ground Wood · 平地木
Open this date’s planning window →Yin Metal
4 October 2026
Yin Metal Pig · 辛亥
Na Yin: Hairpin and Bracelet Metal · 钗钏金
Open this date’s planning window →Yin Water
16 October 2026
Yin Water Pig · 癸亥
Na Yin: Great Sea Water · 大海水
Open this date’s planning window →Yin Wood
28 October 2026
Yin Wood Pig · 乙亥
Na Yin: Mountain-top Fire · 山头火
Open this date’s planning window →Yin Fire
9 November 2026
Yin Fire Pig · 丁亥
Na Yin: Roof Earth · 屋上土
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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
Pig years and their exact boundaries
Use the interval, not just the Gregorian year number, for a birthday near January or February. A full Pig element-name returns sixty years later; the animal alone returns after twelve.
辛亥 · Yin Metal Pig
1911 Pig year
30 January 1911 through 17 February 1912
癸亥 · Yin Water Pig
1923 Pig year
16 February 1923 through 4 February 1924
乙亥 · Yin Wood Pig
1935 Pig year
4 February 1935 through 23 January 1936
丁亥 · Yin Fire Pig
1947 Pig year
22 January 1947 through 9 February 1948
己亥 · Yin Earth Pig
1959 Pig year
8 February 1959 through 27 January 1960
辛亥 · Yin Metal Pig
1971 Pig year
27 January 1971 through 14 February 1972
癸亥 · Yin Water Pig
1983 Pig year
13 February 1983 through 1 February 1984
乙亥 · Yin Wood Pig
1995 Pig year
31 January 1995 through 18 February 1996
丁亥 · Yin Fire Pig
2007 Pig year
18 February 2007 through 6 February 2008
己亥 · Yin Earth Pig
2019 Pig year
5 February 2019 through 24 January 2020
辛亥 · Yin Metal Pig
2031 Pig year
23 January 2031 through 10 February 2032
癸亥 · Yin Water Pig
2043 Pig year
10 February 2043 through 29 January 2044
Solar month · clock period
The Pig month and double-hour
Winter branch month
Beginning of Winter opens the Pig month at 7 November 2026, 17:52:05 UTC+8. It runs until Major Snow at 7 December 2026, 10:52:32 UTC+8.
These are solar-term instants, not the first days of numbered lunar months.
Follow the whole winter season →21:00–22:59
The Pig double-hour occupies position 12 in the twelve-branch clock. It follows Dog and precedes Rat. A double-hour label describes a time of day; it does not determine the year or day animal.
The sets containing Pig
Harmony, season, trine and clash
Six Harmonies
Paired branches
This is a fixed two-branch pairing.
Three Harmonies · trines
Wood
These three animals form the full set; two animals show shared membership.
Three Meetings · seasons
Winter · Water
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 Pig
Hidden stems are attached to the branch. The visible stem on a particular Pig day is the first character of that day’s two-character name.