Is 2029 the Year of the Rooster or the Monkey?
Both occur within Gregorian 2029. Earth Monkey lasts through February 12; Earth Rooster starts February 13 under the Lunar New Year rule.
2029 Chinese zodiac · birthday check
2029 Chinese Zodiac: When Does the Earth Rooster Year Start?
The Earth Rooster lunar year starts February 13, 2029. A Gregorian birthday from January 1 through February 12 is still Earth Monkey; a birthday on or after February 13 is Earth Rooster. Our Chinese zodiac calculator uses Lunar New Year as its year boundary.
Check a birthday in 2029
Choose your Gregorian birth date. The page compares the full date with February 13; your date stays in your browser.
This checks the lunar-year animal and year-stem element. It does not calculate a Four Pillars chart, birth-hour animal, historical time zone, or true solar time.
Four dates that reveal the boundary
| Gregorian birthday | This site's answer | Why |
|---|---|---|
| January 1, 2029 | Earth Monkey | The 2028 lunar year continues. |
| February 3, 2029 | Earth Monkey | Still before Lunar New Year. Start of Spring is a separate convention. |
| February 12, 2029 | Earth Monkey | Last date before the new lunar year. |
| February 13, 2029 | Earth Rooster | First day of the 2029 lunar year. |
The adjacent 2028 guide checks how the Earth Monkey year began. The year and element chart offers the longer sequence with cited dates.
The animal changes, but the element stays Earth
The two sides of this 2029 boundary have different animals yet the same year-stem element: the preceding 2028 lunar year is Wu-shen, Earth Monkey, and the 2029 lunar year is Ji-you, Earth Rooster. The element alone therefore cannot identify the animal. This is a property of the two adjacent year labels in the Observatory's 2028 and 2029 calendars, not a personality reading.
For example, two people born February 12 and 13 in the same Gregorian year both receive the Earth year-stem element in this simplified year-label system, while their animals differ. A calculation based on the year number alone would give the February 12 birthday the wrong lunar-year animal.
Why can another 2029 chart show a different animal?
Some astrology systems begin their year pillar at Start of Spring rather than Lunar New Year. The Observatory's 2029 calendar labels Start of Spring on February 3 and Lunar New Year on February 13. The dates February 4–12 fall between those markers, so a spring-start chart and this site's lunar-year calculator answer different questions. We do not infer the precise result for a February 3 birth from the date label alone: a time-aware Four Pillars calculation needs its stated method and transition time.
Quick answers
What type of Rooster is 2029?
It is the Earth Rooster, labeled Ji-you in the Observatory calendar. This year label is not a complete personal element reading.
What if I was born on February 12 or 13, 2029?
February 12 is Earth Monkey; February 13 is Earth Rooster under this site's stated boundary.
Why does a BaZi chart disagree with this page?
It may use Start of Spring for the year pillar and may consider birth time and location. This page calculates only the lunar-year sign from a Gregorian date.
Watch the date change
Watch this explanation on YouTube. Video fact source: Hong Kong Observatory 2029 calendar.
Method and sources
We compared Gregorian dates with the Observatory's 2029 Gregorian–lunar conversion table. It names Ji-you, the Rooster year, and puts lunar month one on February 13. Its 2028 table names the preceding Wu-shen Monkey year. We use Lunar New Year as the boundary for the year animal; the Observatory's explanation of year conventions supports the separate Start of Spring note. The checker accepts only 2029 Gregorian dates. It neither converts a handwritten lunar birthday nor calculates a time-based chart.