Feng Shui Toolkit

Nongli · 农历

Chinese Lunar Calendar Converter

Convert a Western date to the Chinese lunar calendar, or a lunar date — including leap months — back to the Western calendar. Every result also gives the stem-branch names of the year, month and day.

Gregorian → Lunar

Lunar → Gregorian

Month view

How the Chinese lunar calendar works

The traditional Chinese calendar (农历, nongli) is lunisolar. Each month begins on the day of a new moon and lasts 29 or 30 days. Twelve such months fall about eleven days short of a solar year, so roughly every three years a leap month (闰月) is added, repeating the number of the month before it. The rule that decides which month is doubled depends on the solar terms: a month with no "major" solar term becomes the leap month.

Because of this, lunar dates move against the Western calendar from year to year. Lunar New Year always falls between 21 January and 20 February.

Stem-branch names

Alongside the numbered dates, years, months and days carry names from the sixty-pair cycle of heavenly stems and earthly branches — 2027 is a Ding Wei (丁未) year. In the calendar the year name changes at Lunar New Year; in BaZi and feng shui, the year and month names change at the solar terms instead.

Festival dates

YearLunar New YearLantern FestivalDragon Boat FestivalQixi FestivalGhost FestivalMid-Autumn FestivalDouble Ninth FestivalLeap month
202529 Jan12 Feb31 May29 Aug6 Sep6 Oct29 OctMonth 6
202617 Feb3 Mar19 Jun19 Aug27 Aug25 Sep18 Oct—
20276 Feb20 Feb9 Jun8 Aug16 Aug15 Sep8 Oct—
202826 Jan9 Feb28 May26 Aug3 Sep3 Oct26 OctMonth 5
202913 Feb27 Feb16 Jun16 Aug24 Aug22 Sep16 Oct—
20303 Feb17 Feb5 Jun5 Aug13 Aug12 Sep5 Oct—
203123 Jan6 Feb24 Jun24 Aug1 Sep1 Oct24 OctMonth 3
203211 Feb25 Feb12 Jun12 Aug20 Aug19 Sep12 Oct—
203331 Jan14 Feb1 Jun1 Aug9 Aug8 Sep1 OctMonth 11
203419 Feb5 Mar20 Jun20 Aug28 Aug27 Sep20 Oct—
20358 Feb22 Feb10 Jun10 Aug18 Aug16 Sep9 Oct—

Questions

How do I find my lunar birthday?

Convert your birth date to find its lunar month and day, then use the lunar-to-Gregorian converter with this year's lunar year to see when that date falls now. If you were born in a leap month, many families celebrate in the regular month of the same number in years without that leap month.

Which time zone does it use?

China Standard Time (UTC+8), as the official calendar does. A new moon close to midnight can make the first day of a month fall a day earlier or later in other time zones; the Chinese calendar always follows Beijing time.

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