Key takeaways (~30 sec)
- Chinese New Year 2027 falls on Saturday, February 6, and opens the Year of the Goat.
- New Year's Eve lands on Friday, February 5, and the Lantern Festival closes the season on February 20.
- The date moves each year because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, and it lands between January 21 and February 20.
- A Four Pillars chart turns its year pillar at Lichun on February 4, two days before the festival.
- GPTbazi lays out the four pillars before the interpretation and offers a free chart, no signup.
The short answer
Chinese New Year 2027 falls on Saturday, February 6. It opens the Year of the Goat, and the festival runs from New Year's Eve on February 5 to the Lantern Festival on February 20.
The date itself is fixed. The label that arrives with it names a position in a sixty-year cycle. A reading that uses that position starts from a chart built for one person, and your free chart lays out the four pillars before any interpretation sits on top of them.
The date and the days around it
Three dates frame the season. New Year's Eve falls on Friday, February 5, and the reunion dinner sits on that night. New Year's Day falls on Saturday, February 6. The Lantern Festival closes the run on Saturday, February 20, the fifteenth day.
The opening stretch carries most of the activity. Family visits fill the first days, and the pace eases as the fortnight goes on.
The mainland public holiday lasts about a week. The State Council sets the exact span each year, and the announcement tends to arrive in the autumn before.
What sets the date each year
Chinese New Year falls on the new moon that opens the first lunar month, and the calendar keeps that month tied to the solar year. The result lands between January 21 and February 20 on the Gregorian calendar.
| Year | Chinese New Year | Animal |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | January 29 | Snake |
| 2026 | February 17 | Horse |
| 2027 | February 6 | Goat |
| 2028 | January 26 | Monkey |
| 2029 | February 13 | Rooster |
| 2030 | February 3 | Dog |
The spread comes from the gap between two kinds of month. Twelve lunar months run about eleven days short of a solar year, and the calendar inserts a leap month in some years to close that gap. A year with a thirteenth month pushes the next new year later.
The swings in the table come from that leap month, which pulls the festival back toward the start of spring.
Counting down to February 6
The countdown runs to one point that does not move. Chinese New Year 2027 stays on February 6, so a counter set today and a counter set next week land on the same Saturday.
Count from today, and the gap shrinks on its own. A counter set at the start of October 2026 reads about four months, and one set on January 1, 2027 reads thirty-six days.
The date matters for planning. Trains and flights in China sell out for the festival, and the busiest travel days go first.
The animal that arrives with the new year
February 6 opens the Year of the Goat. The year carries the stem Ding (丁) over the branch Wei (未), and the pair repeats after sixty years.
The Goat sits eighth in the twelve-animal cycle. English names the animal goat, sheep, or ram, and the Chinese word yang (羊) covers the whole family without choosing between the three.
A fuller piece covers the year on its own terms: Chinese Zodiac 2027: Year of the Goat. This page stays with the date and the season around it.
Two starts: Lichun and the festival
Two boundaries open 2027, and they fall two days apart. The festival changes the animal at Chinese New Year on February 6. A Four Pillars chart changes its year pillar at Lichun, the start of spring, on February 4.
A birth inside that window carries one animal in a folk table and another in a chart. The table says Horse, and the chart says Goat.
The difference comes from what each system measures. The festival calendar holds the moon's months to the solar year. A chart follows the sun and the twenty-four solar terms it marks.
The fifteen days and the travel season
The festival spreads across fifteen days, and the customs shift with them. A reunion dinner opens the season on the eve. Visits to relatives fill the first days. The Lantern Festival closes it on February 20 with lantern displays and sweet rice balls.
Travel around the festival is called Chunyun. It ranks among the largest annual movements of people anywhere, and the window runs about forty days.
Food brings a set of wishes through the season. A whole fish at the reunion dinner plays on a phrase for surplus. Dumplings in the north and rice cakes in the south each carry a reading of their own. Those readings belong to the culture, and they stay separate from anything a chart says about one person.
FAQ
When is Chinese New Year 2027? It falls on Saturday, February 6, 2027. New Year's Eve lands on February 5, and the Lantern Festival closes the season on February 20.
How many days until Chinese New Year 2027? It depends on the day you count from. From the start of October 2026 the gap runs about four months, and from January 1, 2027 it comes to thirty-six days.
Which animal is 2027? The Goat. The year carries the stem Ding and the branch Wei, which makes it a Fire Goat year.
Why does the date change each year? The Chinese calendar is lunisolar. The new year lands on a new moon between January 21 and February 20, and a leap month shifts it around inside that window.
Is Chinese New Year the same as Lunar New Year? Lunar New Year is the wider term, and it covers celebrations such as Korean Seollal and Vietnamese Tet. Chinese New Year is the Chinese festival inside that family, and in China it is called Spring Festival.
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