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 3 · day 9
三初九
7 sui 虚岁
Traditional nominal age today; 6 completed Gregorian years. It next increases at Chinese New Year on 6 February 2027.
Next occurrence
212 days from today
in the 2027 lunar year
Birth-date reading · 1 April 2020
The calendar layers of your birth date
Yang Metal Rat · 庚子 · lunar year 2020
Year animal
Rat
Zǐ · 子. The lunar-year animal changes at Chinese New Year.
Year stem · phase & polarity
Yang Metal
Gēng · 庚. Rat itself has fixed Water.
Day pillar
Yang Wood Dog
甲戌 · The day label follows its own sixty-day sequence.
Explore the day stem →Lunar month
Month 3 · day 9
三初九. 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 | 25 April 2026 | Saturday · Yin Earth Snake |
| 2027 | 15 April 2027 | Thursday · Yang Wood Rat |
| 2028 | 3 April 2028 | Monday · Yang Earth Horse |
| 2029 | 22 April 2029 | Sunday · Yang Water Horse |
| 2030 | 11 April 2030 | Thursday · Yang Fire Rat |
| 2031 | 31 March 2031 | Monday · Yang Metal Horse Also a leap lunar month 3 this year; the regular month is used. |
| 2032 | 18 April 2032 | Sunday · Yang Wood Horse |
| 2033 | 8 April 2033 | Friday · Yin Earth Ox |
| 2034 | 27 April 2034 | Thursday · Yin Water Ox |
| 2035 | 16 April 2035 | Monday · Yin Fire Goat |
| 2036 | 5 April 2036 | Saturday · Yang Water Tiger |
| 2037 | 24 April 2037 | Friday · Yang Fire Tiger |
| 2038 | 13 April 2038 | Tuesday · Yang Metal Monkey |
| 2039 | 2 April 2039 | Saturday · Yang Wood Tiger |
| 2040 | 19 April 2040 | Thursday · Yin Fire Ox |
| 2041 | 9 April 2041 | Tuesday · Yang Water Monkey |
| 2042 | 28 April 2042 | Monday · Yang Fire Monkey |
| 2043 | 18 April 2043 | Saturday · Yin Metal Rabbit |
| 2044 | 6 April 2044 | Wednesday · Yin Wood Rooster |
| 2045 | 25 April 2045 | Tuesday · Yin Earth Rooster |
| 2046 | 14 April 2046 | Saturday · Yin Water Rabbit |
| 2047 | 3 April 2047 | Wednesday · Yin Fire Rooster |
| 2048 | 21 April 2048 | Tuesday · Yin Metal Rooster |
| 2049 | 10 April 2049 | Saturday · Yin Wood Rabbit |
| 2050 | 31 March 2050 | Thursday · Yang Metal Dog Also a leap lunar month 3 this year; the regular month is used. |
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 April 2028 selected. Reading updated.
Saturday
Chinese lunar date
Month 3 · day 7 · 2028
二〇二八年三月初七
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 MonkeyDay pillar
Yang Fire Dragon丙辰
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 April 2020, is lunar 2020, month 3, day 9.
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 15 April 2027. 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 − 2020 + 1 = 7 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.