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Chinese New Year 2027 calendar
Chinese New Year's Day is Saturday, February 6, 2027. The first lunar month runs through Lantern Festival on Saturday, February 20 (lunar day 15). New Year's Eve is February 5. Under this site's Lunar New Year rule, the Fire Goat year starts on February 6 and continues long after the 15-day celebration ends.
All 15 lunar dates at a glance
Count February 6 as day 1. Add one Gregorian day for each following lunar day in this uninterrupted first half of month 1. The table is a date conversion, not a claim that every family follows the same daily customs.
| Lunar day | 2027 Gregorian date | What the date means here |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat, Feb 6 | New Year's Day; Fire Goat starts |
| 2 | Sun, Feb 7 | Fire Goat continues |
| 3 | Mon, Feb 8 | Fire Goat continues |
| 4 | Tue, Feb 9 | Fire Goat continues |
| 5 | Wed, Feb 10 | Fire Goat continues |
| 6 | Thu, Feb 11 | Fire Goat continues |
| 7 | Fri, Feb 12 | Fire Goat continues |
| 8 | Sat, Feb 13 | Fire Goat continues |
| 9 | Sun, Feb 14 | Fire Goat continues |
| 10 | Mon, Feb 15 | Fire Goat continues |
| 11 | Tue, Feb 16 | Fire Goat continues |
| 12 | Wed, Feb 17 | Fire Goat continues |
| 13 | Thu, Feb 18 | Fire Goat continues |
| 14 | Fri, Feb 19 | Fire Goat continues |
| 15 | Sat, Feb 20 | Lantern Festival; still Fire Goat |
Check a date in the festival window
This small lookup makes the difference between festival day and zodiac year explicit. It uses a Gregorian date, the same input format as our 2027 zodiac calculator.
Why February 20 does not end the Goat year
Lantern Festival is lunar month 1, day 15. It marks a point in the first month, while the zodiac label describes the whole lunar year. February 20 is therefore not a second zodiac boundary. The next year-animal change used here is January 26, 2028, the start of the next lunar year. The 2027 Fire Goat interval has 354 Gregorian dates inclusive; the February 6–20 festival window has 15. Those are different intervals, not conflicting calendars.
The nearby February 4 versus February 6 guide explains a different boundary question: Start of Spring versus Lunar New Year. This page keeps its narrower calendar purpose: the sequence from New Year's Eve through Lantern Festival.
Quick answers
When is Chinese New Year in 2027?
Saturday, February 6. The previous day, Friday, February 5, is New Year's Eve.
When is Lantern Festival 2027?
Saturday, February 20, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Is Lantern Festival the end of the 2027 Goat year?
No. The Fire Goat lunar year continues through January 25, 2028 under this site's Lunar New Year boundary rule.
Does everyone celebrate for exactly 15 days?
No. This chart maps the first fifteen lunar dates and the Lantern Festival, not every community's holiday schedule or public-holiday entitlement.
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Sources and calculation
The Hong Kong Observatory's 2027 conversion table marks February 6 as the first day of lunar month 1 and February 20 as day 15. The 2028 table marks the next lunar year's first day as January 26. We assigned the intervening Gregorian weekdays and the 15-row lookup ourselves. TravelChinaGuide's Lantern Festival reference describes the 15th-day festival. Dates, traditional celebration duration and official public holidays are separate questions; see our 2027 mainland China holiday status check for which days off remain unconfirmed.