What Is My Chinese Zodiac Sign?
Discover the animal, element and energy behind your birth year.

Enter your exact birth date to find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin/yang polarity, including the correct Chinese New Year cutoff.

A report built around your exact result.

• ✓Your animal, element and polarity read as one combination
• ✓The focus you chose, answered directly
• ✓A second birth date compared, where relevant
• ✓How your pattern meets the current zodiac year
• ✓Practical actions, not general traits
• ✓Delivered digitally, yours to keep

How to Determine Your Chinese Zodiac Sign

A Chinese zodiac sign is the animal assigned to the traditional lunar year in which you were born. To determine your Chinese zodiac accurately, enter your full birth date above. Unlike a simple Chinese zodiac years chart based only on the Gregorian year, this Chinese zodiac sign calculator checks the exact Chinese New Year start date.

This free Chinese astrology calculator—also described as a Chinese horoscope calculator or Eastern zodiac calculator—returns your year animal, governing element, and Yin or Yang polarity. That makes it a Chinese zodiac with elements calculator rather than a basic animal finder.

It is not a full Chinese astrology birth chart calculator. A complete BaZi or Four Pillars chart uses the year, month, day, and hour pillars and may require an exact birth time and place. This tool calculates the year pillar only and labels the result clearly.

Compatibility, in one line

Pick two signs to see how the pair usually runs. The full picture depends on both elements and polarities, which is what a personalized reading compares.

Chinese Zodiac Signs by Year (1920–2031)

Every zodiac year with its element, polarity and the exact Chinese New Year start date. A birth date before the start date belongs to the previous year’s sign, which is what the calculator above checks for you.

Chinese Zodiac Signs by Month

Besides the year animal, Chinese astrology assigns an inner animal to the month you were born, following the solar terms (each month runs roughly from the 4th–8th to the next). It colours how your year sign behaves in private.

Chinese Zodiac Compatibility Chart

Strong matches combine the classic trines and six-harmony pairs; challenging matches include the direct clash and the harm pairs. Elements and polarity can soften or sharpen any pairing, which is what a two-date comparison checks.

Accuracy and method

This calculator uses the Chinese New Year boundary, so a date in January or early February is assigned to the previous zodiac year. The supported range is 1920 to 2031.

The element is taken from the last digit of the zodiac year and the polarity alternates yin and yang. Together they give the sixty-year cycle that repeats a combination such as Metal Goat once every sixty years.

This is the year-pillar method. A full Four Pillars chart also needs the exact birth time and place, which this page does not ask for and does not claim to calculate.