2017 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Fire Rooster

2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (丁酉 Dīngyǒu), from 28 January 2017 to 15 February 2018. Anyone born in 2017 before 28 January 2017 belongs to the Fire Monkey year.

• Animal: Rooster
• Element: Fire (Yin)
• Cycle name: 丁酉 Dīngyǒu, year 34 of the 60-year cycle
• Starts: 28 January 2017
• Ends: 15 February 2018

The Fire Rooster

Fire years are traditionally linked with passion, visibility and momentum: the element of warmth, courage and ideas that spread quickly. The Rooster is the zodiac's organiser. Tradition describes Rooster people as observant, hardworking and honest, confident in their standards and precise in their work. They say what they see, which is a gift and occasionally a problem.

Born in January or February 2017?

Anyone born from 1 January to 27 January 2017 belongs to the Fire Monkey year of 2016. From 28 January 2017 the Fire Rooster year begins.

How the dates are worked out

Each Chinese New Year here is worked out from the sky, not copied from a list. A lunar month starts on the day of a New Moon in China Standard Time (UTC+8, or Beijing local time before 1929). The month holding the December solstice is the 11th month. When 13 New Moons fall between two of those months, the first month with no principal solar term (the Sun reaching a multiple of 30 degrees) is a leap month. New Year is the first day of the 1st month, which is why it moves between 21 January and 20 February. New Moons and solar terms follow Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms. The rules follow the Chinese calendar.

2016: Fire Monkey · 2018: Earth Dog · All Rooster years · All 12 animals