Recurring lunar date
Lunar birthday calculator: dates for 2026–2050
Find your Chinese lunar birthday, then check Gregorian occurrences across 2026–2050. The look-ahead covers up to 30 lunar years, capped at supported dates in 2050; a birthday need not occur in every year.
Your calendar identity
Lunar month 11 · day 15
冬十五
10 sui 虚岁
Traditional nominal age today; 8 completed Gregorian years. It next increases at Chinese New Year on 6 February 2027.
Next occurrence
98 days from today
in the 2026 lunar year
Birth-date reading · 1 January 2018
The calendar layers of your birth date
Yin Fire Rooster · 丁酉 · lunar year 2017
Year animal
Rooster
Yǒu · 酉. The lunar-year animal changes at Chinese New Year.
Year stem · phase & polarity
Yin Fire
Dīng · 丁. Rooster itself has fixed Metal.
Day pillar
Yin Water Snake
癸巳 · The day label follows its own sixty-day sequence.
Explore the day stem →Lunar month
Month 11 · day 15
冬十五. Lunar months contain 29 or 30 days.
Moon phases around this date →All 25 lunar years · date table
| Lunar year | Gregorian date | Day animal & notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 December 2026 | Wednesday · Yin Metal Goat |
| 2027 | 12 December 2027 | Sunday · Yin Wood Ox |
| 2028 | 30 December 2028 | Saturday · Yin Earth Ox |
| 2029 | 19 December 2029 | Wednesday · Yin Water Goat |
| 2030 | 9 December 2030 | Monday · Yang Earth Tiger |
| 2031 | 28 December 2031 | Sunday · Yang Water Tiger |
| 2032 | 17 December 2032 | Friday · Yin Fire Rooster |
| 2033 | 6 December 2033 | Tuesday · Yin Metal Rabbit Also a leap lunar month 11 this year; the regular month is used. |
| 2034 | 25 December 2034 | Monday · Yin Wood Rabbit |
| 2035 | 14 December 2035 | Friday · Yin Earth Rooster |
| 2036 | 31 December 2036 | Wednesday · Yang Water Monkey |
| 2037 | 21 December 2037 | Monday · Yin Fire Rabbit |
| 2038 | 10 December 2038 | Friday · Yin Metal Rooster |
| 2039 | 30 December 2039 | Friday · Yang Fire Dog |
| 2040 | 18 December 2040 | Tuesday · Yang Metal Dragon |
| 2041 | 8 December 2041 | Sunday · Yin Wood Pig |
| 2042 | 26 December 2042 | Friday · Yang Earth Dog |
| 2043 | 15 December 2043 | Tuesday · Yang Water Dragon |
| 2044 | 2 January 2045 | Monday · Yang Fire Dragon |
| 2045 | 22 December 2045 | Friday · Yang Metal Dog |
| 2046 | 12 December 2046 | Wednesday · Yin Wood Snake |
| 2047 | 31 December 2047 | Tuesday · Yin Earth Snake |
| 2048 | 19 December 2048 | Saturday · Yin Water Pig |
| 2049 | 9 December 2049 | Thursday · Yang Earth Horse |
| 2050 | 28 December 2050 | Wednesday · Yang Water Horse |
Choose a day · read it here
Your lunar birthday in the calendar
The exact lunar birthday is marked in its surrounding month. Browse other years or select a nearby day; no substitute date is chosen for an absent birthday.
Swipe across the calendar to see every day. Select a date for its reading.
| SundaySun | MondayMon | TuesdayTue | WednesdayWed | ThursdayThu | FridayFri | SaturdaySat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Selected day · calendar reading
1 November 2048 selected. Reading updated.
Sunday
Chinese lunar date
Month 9 · day 25 · 2048
二〇四八年九月廿五
Not your lunar birthday
This is a nearby calendar date. Your birthday marker appears only where all three parts match.
Birth-year animal & element
Yang Earth DragonDay pillar
Yin Wood Pig乙亥
From a birth record to an annual date
What is a lunar birthday?
A lunar birthday repeats the month and day recorded in the Chinese calendar, rather than the month and day printed on a Gregorian birth certificate. Both describe the original birth; they produce different anniversary dates in later years.
First, convert the birth date
The finder locates the original day in its lunar year, numbered month and regular or leap occurrence. That full identity is what the yearly search preserves.
Your date, 1 January 2018, is lunar 2017, month 11, day 15.
Then, find its next occurrence
For each later lunar year, the finder selects the same month, leap status and day, then converts it back to Gregorian. “Next occurrence” is the first matching date on or after today.
Your next date is 23 December 2026. See the surrounding month →
Keep the original record
If your family record already gives a lunar birthday, check whether it includes 闰, the leap-month marker. Leaving that marker out can select a different month and produce a different Gregorian date.
Convert a recorded lunar birthday →Two ways of counting age
A birthday and an age increment are not the same
Completed Gregorian years
This age counts completed years since the Gregorian birthday. A person begins at zero and gains a year on that anniversary.
Nominal age · 虚岁
In the convention shown here, a person is one sui at birth and gains a year at Chinese New Year. The calculation is current lunar year minus birth lunar year, plus one—not simply Gregorian age plus one in every case.
2026 − 2017 + 1 = 10 sui today.
Reading the exceptions
Why a row may have no birthday date
A short lunar month
A month of 29 days has no day 30. The finder reports that absence; it does not quietly replace a thirtieth-day birthday with day 29.
An absent leap month
A leap-month birthday repeats exactly only when the same numbered leap month occurs again. A regular month of the same number remains a different occurrence.
The publication boundary
A lunar date can exist while its Gregorian equivalent falls beyond the published calendar. That is labelled outside the available range, not described as a missing birthday.
Lunisolar movement
Why the date moves
The lunar day stays the same; its Gregorian position changes with the rhythm of lunar months and leap months.
The Chinese calendar is lunisolar: months follow the moon and run 29 or 30 days, while a leap month is inserted about every third year to keep the year aligned with the seasons. A lunar date therefore drifts against the Gregorian calendar, usually falling eleven days earlier than the previous year before a leap month pushes it forward again.
Two consequences matter for a birthday. A date on the 30th of a month does not exist in years where that month is short. And a birthday inside a leap month recurs only when the same leap month recurs, which is irregular — sometimes decades apart.
The table marks both cases explicitly. The same conversion is available for any date in the date converter.
Family practice
When a lunar date is absent
A 30th day can disappear in a short month, and a leap-month birthday can be absent for many years. Families handle those cases differently; the table keeps the exact calendar pattern visible so you can follow the custom that matters to you.