Chinese New Year New Year Dates

The traditional holiday period 23 days.

Chinese new year new year dates. Chinese new year for the year 2021 is celebrated observed on friday february 12. It is also known as the lunar new year or the spring festival. Chinese new year is the first day of the new year in the chinese lunisolar calendar chinese traditional calendar.

2021 is a year of the ox according to chinese zodiac. List of dates for other years. The gregorian calendar dates for chinese new year from 1912 to 2101 are below along with the year s presiding animal zodiac and its stem branch.

Dates of chinese new year from 1996 2019 up until 2031. As an official public holiday chinese people can get seven days absence from work from february 11th to 17th. We will update the list every february.

That is the reason why the date has a range of 32 days. Chinese new year is the first day of the new year in the chinese lunisolar calendar chinese traditional calendar. The traditional chinese calendar follows a metonic cycle a system used by the modern jewish calendar and returns to the same date in gregorian calendar roughly.

It is also known as the lunar new year or the spring festival. This year the animal sign is the rooster. In 2021 it occurs on 12 february.

The lunar calendar has been running for over 4000 years. After some successive big years there must be several small years or vice versa so the new year date can never go out of the range. The coming chinese new year is 2021 02 12 which is 66 days away this year s animal sign is the rat from 2020 01 25 to 2021 02 11.