Tiger in 2026
2026 is a Horse year. Tiger and Horse occupy branches 寅 and 午.
Three Harmonies · trines · 三合. Tiger and Horse share the Fire trine; Dog completes their three-animal group.
Read Tiger with Horse →Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water Tiger
Wood Tiger
Years: 1914, 1974, 2034.
Wood repeats the Tiger's own element, concentrating the traditional themes of growth, initiative and a readiness to press forward. The Wood Tiger reading places courage in a collective setting, where defending a shared purpose and encouraging others can sit beside impatience with anything that seems to hold everyone back.
Wood Tiger birth dates and next year →Fire Tiger
Years: 1926, 1986, 2046.
The Tiger's Wood feeds Fire, giving the Fire Tiger a traditional pattern of turning initiative into outward expression and action. Its reading emphasizes a challenge taken up with visible conviction, a quick call for others to join and a tendency to spend enthusiasm faster than the details are settled.
Fire Tiger birth dates and next year →Earth Tiger
Years: 1938, 1998.
The Tiger's Wood controls Earth, putting its urge to advance alongside the year element's concern with structure and established ground. This reading gives the Earth Tiger a practical cause to defend, combining the courage to intervene with a wish to see a concrete result from the effort.
Earth Tiger birth dates and next year →Metal Tiger
Years: 1950, 2010.
Metal controls the Tiger's Wood, introducing discipline and firm limits to an animal traditionally associated with bold initiative. The Metal Tiger reading concentrates that force around a chosen principle, describing determination in the face of resistance and difficulty yielding when a disagreement feels like a test of conviction.
Metal Tiger birth dates and next year →Water Tiger
Years: 1902, 1962, 2022.
Water nourishes the Tiger's Wood, supporting its traditional drive to explore, begin and defend what matters to it. The Water Tiger reading makes greater room for observation and exchange, with courage expressed through finding a workable opening and listening to the people affected before taking the lead.
Water Tiger birth dates and next year →Tiger personality traits
Traditional accounts give the Tiger a bold presence and a quick response to a challenge. It is drawn to situations that call for courage, particularly when someone needs defending or a stale arrangement needs changing. Its confidence can outrun the patience needed to hear objections. The Tiger's character therefore turns on how readily protective feeling becomes action, and how well that action leaves space for another person's wishes.
Tiger: best and difficult matches
Horse: Tiger and Horse share the Fire trine; Dog completes their three-animal group.
Monkey: Tiger (寅) stands six positions opposite Monkey (申), the contrast called a Six Clash in the traditional pairing.
Dog: Tiger and Dog share the Fire trine; Horse completes their three-animal group.
Pig: Tiger (寅) and Pig (亥) form one of the six fixed harmony pairs, traditionally read as a complementary connection.
All twelve Tiger compatibility pairings →Five forms · one twelve-day rhythm
The next Tiger 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 Tiger branch itself keeps Wood.
Yang Metal
13 September 2026
Yang Metal Tiger · 庚寅
Na Yin: Pine and Cypress Wood · 松柏木
Open this date’s planning window →Yang Water
25 September 2026
Yang Water Tiger · 壬寅
Na Yin: Gold-leaf Metal · 金箔金
Open this date’s planning window →Yang Wood
7 October 2026
Yang Wood Tiger · 甲寅
Na Yin: Great Stream Water · 大溪水
Open this date’s planning window →Yang Fire
19 October 2026
Yang Fire Tiger · 丙寅
Na Yin: Furnace Fire · 炉中火
Open this date’s planning window →Yang Earth
31 October 2026
Yang Earth Tiger · 戊寅
Na Yin: City-wall Earth · 城头土
Open this date’s planning window →
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
Tiger years and their exact boundaries
Use the interval, not just the Gregorian year number, for a birthday near January or February. A full Tiger element-name returns sixty years later; the animal alone returns after twelve.
壬寅 · Yang Water Tiger
1902 Tiger year
8 February 1902 through 28 January 1903
甲寅 · Yang Wood Tiger
1914 Tiger year
26 January 1914 through 13 February 1915
丙寅 · Yang Fire Tiger
1926 Tiger year
13 February 1926 through 1 February 1927
戊寅 · Yang Earth Tiger
1938 Tiger year
31 January 1938 through 18 February 1939
庚寅 · Yang Metal Tiger
1950 Tiger year
17 February 1950 through 5 February 1951
壬寅 · Yang Water Tiger
1962 Tiger year
5 February 1962 through 24 January 1963
甲寅 · Yang Wood Tiger
1974 Tiger year
23 January 1974 through 10 February 1975
丙寅 · Yang Fire Tiger
1986 Tiger year
9 February 1986 through 28 January 1987
戊寅 · Yang Earth Tiger
1998 Tiger year
28 January 1998 through 15 February 1999
庚寅 · Yang Metal Tiger
2010 Tiger year
14 February 2010 through 2 February 2011
壬寅 · Yang Water Tiger
2022 Tiger year
1 February 2022 through 21 January 2023
甲寅 · Yang Wood Tiger
2034 Tiger year
19 February 2034 through 7 February 2035
丙寅 · Yang Fire Tiger
2046 Tiger year
6 February 2046 through 25 January 2047
Solar month · clock period
The Tiger month and double-hour
Spring branch month
Beginning of Spring opens the Tiger month at 4 February 2026, 04:02:08 UTC+8. It runs until Awakening of Insects at 5 March 2026, 21:59:00 UTC+8.
These are solar-term instants, not the first days of numbered lunar months.
Follow the whole spring season →03:00–04:59
The Tiger double-hour occupies position 3 in the twelve-branch clock. It follows Ox and precedes Rabbit. A double-hour label describes a time of day; it does not determine the year or day animal.
The sets containing Tiger
Harmony, season, trine and clash
Six Harmonies
Paired branches
This is a fixed two-branch pairing.
Three Harmonies · trines
Fire
These three animals form the full set; two animals show shared membership.
Three Meetings · seasons
Spring · Wood
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 Tiger
Hidden stems are attached to the branch. The visible stem on a particular Tiger day is the first character of that day’s two-character name.