Chinese Lunar Calendar

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Lunar dates · family signs

Chinese gender calendar 2026: baby gender calculator and chart by lunar age

The Chinese gender calendar, also called the Chinese baby calendar, is a traditional chart of 28 lunar-age rows, 18 to 45, by 12 lunar months of conception, and each cell reads Boy or Girl. Enter the mother’s birth date and the conception date and the calculator finds the cell; the chart is the same for 2025, 2026 and 2027, only the lunar age and the lunar month change.

Baby gender calculator

The two dates above give the lunar age and conception month used by the traditional chart.

Baby’s zodiac · optional

Entered dates appear in the page address.

Chinese gender calendar 2026

Your chart cell

Enter the mother’s birth date and conception date to find the age row and lunar-month column. The chart has age rows 18–45; leap months stay separate.

Expected-date zodiac preview

1 August 2026 · Horse

See element & parent comparisons ↓

Chinese baby calendar

Chinese baby calendar: the full chart

Rows are the mother’s lunar age at conception, 18 to 45; columns are the lunar month of conception, 1 to 12. Enter your dates above and your cell is marked here.

Chinese gender calendar: Boy or Girl by lunar age and lunar conception month
Lunar ageMonth 1Month 2Month 3Month 4Month 5Month 6Month 7Month 8Month 9Month 10Month 11Month 12
18GirlBoyGirlBoyBoyBoyBoyBoyBoyBoyBoyBoy
19BoyGirlBoyGirlGirlBoyBoyBoyBoyBoyGirlGirl
20GirlBoyGirlBoyBoyBoyBoyBoyBoyGirlBoyBoy
21BoyGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirl
22GirlBoyBoyGirlBoyGirlGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlGirl
23BoyBoyGirlBoyBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyBoyBoyGirl
24BoyGirlBoyBoyGirlBoyBoyGirlGirlGirlGirlGirl
25GirlBoyBoyGirlGirlBoyGirlBoyBoyBoyBoyBoy
26BoyGirlBoyGirlGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlGirl
27GirlBoyGirlBoyGirlGirlBoyBoyBoyBoyGirlBoy
28BoyGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlBoyBoyBoyBoyGirlGirl
29GirlBoyGirlGirlBoyBoyBoyBoyBoyGirlGirlGirl
30BoyGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlBoyBoy
31BoyGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlBoy
32BoyGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlBoy
33GirlBoyGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlBoy
34BoyGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlGirlBoyBoy
35BoyBoyGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlBoyGirlGirlBoyBoy
36GirlBoyBoyGirlBoyGirlGirlGirlBoyBoyBoyBoy
37BoyGirlBoyBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoy
38GirlBoyGirlBoyBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirl
39BoyGirlBoyBoyBoyGirlGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlGirl
40GirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirl
41BoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyBoyGirlBoyGirlBoy
42GirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyBoyGirlBoyGirl
43BoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyBoyBoyBoy
44BoyBoyGirlBoyBoyBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlGirl
45GirlBoyBoyGirlGirlGirlBoyGirlBoyGirlBoyBoy

Chart as published by Chinese Fortune Calendar, the variant this page uses; it has no leap-month column, so a leap-month conception is shown without a reading.

Lunar age: how it is counted

Lunar age, the nominal age or 虚岁, counts a person as one at birth and adds a year at every Chinese New Year: the lunar year of conception minus the lunar year of birth, plus one. It is the row the chart uses, and it usually runs one or two years above the Western age.

Enter the two dates above to see the mother’s lunar age at conception. Find a lunar birthday →

Expected-date preview · 1 August 2026

Baby’s Chinese zodiac

Yang Fire Horse · 丙午 · lunar year 2026

This is the sign for the selected date. Recheck using the actual birth date, especially if it falls on the other side of Chinese New Year.

Year animal

Horse

Wǔ · 午. The lunar-year animal changes at Chinese New Year.

Year stem · phase & polarity

Yang Fire

Bǐng · 丙. Horse itself has fixed Fire.

Day pillar

Yin Fire Goat

丁未 · The day label follows its own sixty-day sequence.

Explore the day stem →

Lunar month

Month 6 · day 19

六十九. Lunar months contain 29 or 30 days.

Moon phases around this date →

Explore your dates together

Chinese calendar baby gender by month

Select a date to explore its lunar birthday, day pillar and family signs, or switch to conception inputs. Your entered dates change only when you press “Use as”.

Selected date represents

One birth-year sign throughout this month

Yang Fire Horse

Lunar year 2026 · Yang Fire

The year sign changes at Chinese New Year. The day animal and element below follow a separate daily cycle.

Cells show each date’s day animal and element, lunar date and calendar events. Conception and baby-date markers stay visible in both views.

Swipe across the calendar to see every day. Select a date for its reading.

Baby and conception dates in July 2026
SundaySunMondayMonTuesdayTueWednesdayWedThursdayThuFridayFriSaturdaySat
TodaySelectedFestivalMoon phaseSolar term

Baby-date preview

1

Wednesday

1 July 2026

Selected 1 July 2026. Month 5 · day 17 · 2026. Yang Fire Rat day.

31 days before your entered expected date (1 August 2026).

Lunar birthday for this date

Month 5 · day 17 · 2026

二〇二六年五月十七

Find this lunar birthday in future years →

Day animal & element · changes daily

Yang Fire Rat 丙子

Yang Fire is this day’s stem. It is separate from the Yang Fire Horse birth-year sign.

Read the sixty-day cycle →

Parent & child · birth-year signs

Add a parent’s birthday to compare their year animal with this baby-date preview.

Add parent birthdays →

Around this date

Waning gibbous

Solar term: Summer Solstice.

Read this date’s complete almanac →
Use as baby’s date →

One family · distinct date questions

Read the baby chart and calendar together

The conception inputs, folk-chart label and baby’s zodiac are connected here, but calculated from different dates.

What each date supplies

Mother’s birthday + conception
Together they give nominal lunar age and the lunar conception month—the chart’s row and column.
Baby’s birth or expected date
This separately gives the baby’s year animal, element and Yin/Yang. An expected date is a preview; the actual birth date may cross a Chinese New Year boundary.
Parents’ birthdays
Each parent’s year animal is compared with the baby’s year animal. A pairing does not confirm or contradict a folk-chart label.

Preview first, then apply a date

Selecting a calendar square changes the preview, not the dates entered above. Switch between conception and baby-date views to inspect the relevant reading. Use “Use as…” only when you want that date to replace an input.

Conception mode shows lunar-age rows and chart labels. Baby mode shows the shared birth-year sign above the month, with the changing day animal and element inside each cell. The entered conception and birth or expected dates remain marked in both modes. These are calendar comparisons, not fertility windows or recommended delivery dates.

Worked example · a one-day difference

The age row stays; the month column changes

For a mother born on 15 June 1990, an entered conception date of 10 September 2026 is lunar month 7, day 29, at 37 sui. The next day is month 8, day 1. The age row stays 37, but the chart column changes.

The nearby-date comparison groups 3–10 September in month 7 and 11–17 September in month 8. It shows sensitivity to the date entered; it does not establish when conception occurred.

Questions about missing or changing results

Why can a valid date have no chart label?

This chart has age rows 18–45 and no separate leap-month column. For example, 22 March 2023 converts successfully to leap month 2, day 1. We preserve that date instead of substituting the regular second month. An age outside the chart rows can also be valid. See the leap-month example →

Do I need every field?

No. The mother’s birthday and conception date are needed together for chart inputs. A baby’s own date can produce a zodiac reading independently. Another parent’s birthday adds only that parent’s comparison.

Does changing conception change the baby’s sign?

Not by itself. The baby’s sign follows the separate birth or expected date. Chinese New Year, rather than 1 January, marks its year boundary. Explore the New Year boundary →