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title: "Chinese Calendar Converter: Today’s Lunar Date, Lunar Birthdays and Festival Dates"
description: "Any day as its Chinese lunar date in characters, pinyin and English, like 丙午年九月十九 for 28 October 2026; your lunar birthday in the years ahead; and the dates of Chinese New Year, Mid-Autumn and every lunar festival."
canonical: "https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-calendar"
author: "Mandarin The Wild"
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# Chinese calendar converter

Pick any day to see its lunar date, and when that lunar date falls in the years ahead.

28 October 2026

丙午年九月十九

bǐngwǔ nián jiǔyuè shíjiǔ

The 19th day of the 9th month, Year of the Horse

**Lunar date**
农历九月十九 nónglì jiǔyuè shíjiǔ

**Year**
丙午年 bǐngwǔ nián · 马年 mǎ nián Horse

**Western date**
2026年10月28号 星期三 èr líng èr liù nián shí yuè èr shí bā hào · xīng qī sān

## 九月十九 in the years ahead

A lunar birthday or anniversary falls on a different Western day each year.

1. 202718 October 2027
2. 20285 November 2028
3. 202926 October 2029
4. 203015 October 2030
5. 20313 November 2031

## Lunar festivals this year and next

| Festival | Lunar date | Horse year 2026–27 | Goat year 2027–28 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 春节 Chūnjié
[Chinese New Year](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-festivals/chinese-new-year) | 正月初一 | 17 February 2026 | 6 February 2027 |
| 元宵节 Yuánxiāojié
[Lantern Festival](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-festivals/lantern-festival) | 正月十五 | 3 March 2026 | 20 February 2027 |
| 龙抬头 Lóng táitóu
Dragon Raises Its Head | 二月初二 | 20 March 2026 | 9 March 2027 |
| 端午节 Duānwǔjié
[Dragon Boat Festival](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-festivals/dragon-boat-festival) | 五月初五 | 19 June 2026 | 9 June 2027 |
| 七夕节 Qīxījié
[Qixi, Chinese Valentine’s Day](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-festivals/qixi-festival) | 七月初七 | 19 August 2026 | 8 August 2027 |
| 中元节 Zhōngyuánjié
Ghost Festival | 七月十五 | 27 August 2026 | 16 August 2027 |
| 中秋节 Zhōngqiūjié
[Mid-Autumn Festival](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-festivals/mid-autumn-festival) | 八月十五 | 25 September 2026 | 15 September 2027 |
| 重阳节 Chóngyángjié
[Double Ninth Festival](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-festivals/double-ninth-festival) | 九月初九 | 18 October 2026 | 8 October 2027 |
| 腊八节 Làbājié
Laba Festival | 腊月初八 | 15 January 2027 | 4 January 2028 |
| 除夕 Chúxī
Chinese New Year’s Eve | 腊月最后一天 | 5 February 2027 | 25 January 2028 |

清明 and 冬至 follow the sun, not the moon: about 5 April and 22 December. Their dates are on [Chinese festivals](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-festivals).

## The lunar months

1. 1正月 zhēngyuè
2. 2二月 èryuè
3. 3三月 sānyuè
4. 4四月 sìyuè
5. 5五月 wǔyuè
6. 6六月 liùyuè
7. 7七月 qīyuè
8. 8八月 bāyuè
9. 9九月 jiǔyuè
10. 10十月 shíyuè
11. 11冬月 dōngyuè
12. 12腊月 làyuè

## How does the Chinese calendar work?

Each month starts on the day of a new moon, so a month has 29 or 30 days and the day of the month tells you the moon: 初一 is the new moon and 十五 the full moon. Twelve months make 354 or 355 days, so about every three years a leap month (闰月) is added to keep the year with the seasons. The new year, 春节, falls between 21 January and 20 February.

## What is my Chinese lunar birthday?

Pick the day you were born: the lunar date is your lunar birthday, and the list under it shows the Western day it falls on in the years ahead. Many families, especially older people, still celebrate the lunar birthday.

## What do 农历 and 阳历 mean?

农历 (nónglì), “the farming calendar”, is the lunar calendar, used for festivals, birthdays of older people and lucky days. 阳历 (yánglì) or 公历 (gōnglì) is the Western calendar China uses for everything else.

## How are lunar dates written?

The months are 正月 (the first), 二月 to 十月, then 冬月 and 腊月 for the eleventh and twelfth. The first ten days are 初一 to 初十, then 十一 to 二十, 廿一 to 廿九 (廿 niàn is twenty), and 三十. So the Mid-Autumn Festival is 八月十五 and Chinese New Year’s Eve is the last day of 腊月.

## What are 丙午 and the other year names?

Each year has a two-character name from a cycle of sixty, ten “heavenly stems” (甲 乙 丙 丁 戊 己 庚 辛 壬 癸) with twelve “earthly branches” (子 丑 寅 卯 辰 巳 午 未 申 酉 戌 亥), and each branch is one of the twelve zodiac animals: 午 is the Horse.

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- [Chinese zodiac](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-zodiac)
- [Dates and time in Chinese](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-dates-and-time)
- [Chinese festivals](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-festivals)
- [Chinese numbers](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-numbers)

Lunar months from the Hong Kong Observatory’s conversion tables, 1901 to 2100. Nothing you pick is kept.