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 8 · day 29
八廿九
3 sui 虚岁
Traditional nominal age today; 1 completed Gregorian years. It next increases at Chinese New Year on 6 February 2027.
Next occurrence
25 days from today
in the 2026 lunar year
Birth-date reading · 1 October 2024
The calendar layers of your birth date
Yang Wood Dragon · 甲辰 · lunar year 2024
Year animal
Dragon
Chén · 辰. The lunar-year animal changes at Chinese New Year.
Year stem · phase & polarity
Yang Wood
Jiǎ · 甲. Dragon itself has fixed Earth.
Day pillar
Yang Earth Dog
戊戌 · The day label follows its own sixty-day sequence.
Explore the day stem →Lunar month
Month 8 · day 29
八廿九. 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 | 9 October 2026 | Friday · Yang Fire Dragon |
| 2027 | 29 September 2027 | Wednesday · Yin Metal Pig |
| 2028 | 17 October 2028 | Tuesday · Yin Wood Pig |
| 2029 | 6 October 2029 | Saturday · Yin Earth Snake |
| 2030 | 26 September 2030 | Thursday · Yang Wood Rat |
| 2031 | 15 October 2031 | Wednesday · Yang Earth Rat |
| 2032 | 3 October 2032 | Sunday · Yang Water Horse |
| 2033 | 22 September 2033 | Thursday · Yang Fire Rat |
| 2034 | 11 October 2034 | Wednesday · Yang Metal Rat |
| 2035 | 30 September 2035 | Sunday · Yang Wood Horse |
| 2036 | 18 October 2036 | Saturday · Yang Earth Horse |
| 2037 | 8 October 2037 | Thursday · Yin Water Ox |
| 2038 | 27 September 2038 | Monday · Yin Fire Goat |
| 2039 | 16 October 2039 | Sunday · Yin Metal Goat |
| 2040 | 4 October 2040 | Thursday · Yin Wood Ox |
| 2041 | 24 September 2041 | Tuesday · Yang Metal Monkey |
| 2042 | 12 October 2042 | Sunday · Yin Water Goat |
| 2043 | 1 October 2043 | Thursday · Yin Fire Ox |
| 2044 | 19 October 2044 | Wednesday · Yin Metal Ox |
| 2045 | 9 October 2045 | Monday · Yang Fire Monkey |
| 2046 | 29 September 2046 | Saturday · Yin Metal Rabbit |
| 2047 | 18 October 2047 | Friday · Yin Wood Rabbit |
| 2048 | 6 October 2048 | Tuesday · Yin Earth Rooster |
| 2049 | 25 September 2049 | Saturday · Yin Water Rabbit |
| 2050 | 14 October 2050 | Friday · Yin Fire Rabbit |
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
26 September 2030 selected. Reading updated.
Thursday
Chinese lunar date
Month 8 · day 29 · 2030
二〇三〇年八月廿九
Your exact lunar birthday
The lunar month, day and leap status all match the birth record.
Birth-year animal & element
Yang Metal DogDay pillar
Yang Wood Rat甲子
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 October 2024, is lunar 2024, month 8, day 29.
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 9 October 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 − 2024 + 1 = 3 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.