The date on your record
Enter a Gregorian birthday in 2027. The day and month are needed to place it on the lunar calendar.
The lunar year at a glance
2027 Chinese Zodiac: Fire Goat
The 2027 Chinese zodiac year is Fire Goat from February 6, 2027 through January 25, 2028. A 2027 birthday before February 6 is still Fire Horse. Enter the full birth date below; Goat, Sheep and Ram are English names for the same zodiac animal.
Lunar year beginning in 2027
- Chinese New Year begins
- Year-stem element
Your birth-date result
One lunar year crosses two Gregorian years
The exact 2027 Fire Goat date range
The Hong Kong Observatory's 2027 conversion table places the first lunar month on February 6. Its 2028 table starts the following Earth Monkey year on January 26, 2028. Applying those two boundaries makes the Fire Goat lunar year 354 days long, from February 6, 2027 through January 25, 2028 inclusive. This is a date interval, not a prediction about anyone born in it.
| Gregorian birth date | Year animal here | Why |
|---|---|---|
| January 1, 2027 | Fire Horse | The 2027 lunar year has not begun. |
| February 5, 2027 | Fire Horse | Last day before Lunar New Year. |
| February 6, 2027 | Fire Goat | First day of the 2027 lunar year. |
| December 31, 2027 | Fire Goat | The 2027 lunar year continues. |
| January 25, 2028 | Fire Goat | Last day before the 2028 lunar year. |
| January 26, 2028 | Earth Monkey | First day of the next lunar year. |
The first 36 Gregorian days of 2027 are still Horse under this site's Lunar New Year rule. The checker above accepts 2027 dates; use the 2028 Earth Monkey date checker for January 2028. These are applications of published calendar dates, not six separate horoscope claims.
Name and method
Goat, Sheep or Ram: what changes?
The calendar's Chinese animal is 羊 (yáng). English sources render the zodiac name as Goat, Sheep or Ram; those words do not create three different 2027 animal years. We use Goat, the label in the Observatory's English table. Read the Goat's cultural meaning, full birth-date ranges and year elements for the animal guide; our source-by-source Goat, Sheep and Ram comparison covers the naming question.
The separate February 4 versus February 6 guide answers why Start of Spring and Lunar New Year may produce different year labels. Start at our Chinese New Year 2027 guide to choose between festival dates, holiday status, birth-date animal and naming; for the full sequence from New Year's Eve through Lantern Festival, see the 15-day calendar. This calculator uses Lunar New Year for the popular year animal; it does not calculate a BaZi year pillar, birth-hour animal or true solar time.
The year boundary
Why a 2027 birthday can have an earlier sign
The lunar year starts later
The animal for the lunar year beginning in 2027 takes effect on its published Chinese New Year date, not at midnight on January 1.
The element belongs to a stem
The displayed element follows the lunar year's heavenly stem. It is a year label, not a complete personal birth chart.
Scope & sources
The calendar behind this page
The animal, stem, and New Year boundary are read from the Hong Kong Observatory's Gregorian–Lunar Calendar Conversion Tables. The stem-to-element correspondence follows Shandong University's Center for Zhouyi & Ancient Chinese Philosophy.
This page checks birthdays within 2027. For another birth year, use the Chinese zodiac calculator. To compare two people's lunar-year animals, use Chinese zodiac compatibility.
For the two-day gap between Start of Spring and Lunar New Year, see the February 4 versus February 6, 2027 explanation and date table.
Common questions
About the 2027 animal and element
What if I was born before Chinese New Year in 2027?
The date checker uses the previous lunar year's animal and stem. The year shown at the top describes the lunar year that begins in 2027.
Does the year-stem element describe my entire birth chart?
No. It labels the year in this calendar. A full birth chart uses more information than this page asks for.
Can I compare a 2027 birth with another person?
Yes. Enter both complete dates on the compatibility page so each animal is checked against its own New Year boundary.
Is January 2028 still the 2027 Goat year?
January 1–25, 2028 are still Fire Goat under this Lunar New Year rule. The Earth Monkey year starts January 26. Check the 2028 date page for individual birthdays.