Chinese New Year is the first day of the first lunar month in a civil lunisolar calendar. It is not a fixed Gregorian date, and local almanacs can differ from a software conversion by a day.

What we publish

The Chinese calendar 2026 and the matching lunar view overlay each Gregorian day with a lunisolar day. Chinese New Year 2026 falls on 17 February in this conversion (Year of the Horse). Days before that date still belong to the previous zodiac year.

The conversion covers 1900–2100 using packed month lengths in the same civil style as tables associated with the Hong Kong Observatory. That is a civil almanac, not a temple calendar.

Leap months and time zones

A lunisolar year sometimes inserts a leap month so festivals stay in season. New moons are astronomical; a civil table rounds them to calendar days. Communities east or west of East Asia, or those that follow a different midnight rule, may celebrate a day earlier or later. Treat our date as a planning aid.

What this is not

We do not publish official public-holiday lists for China, Hong Kong, Singapore or Malaysia. Those governments issue their own notices. We also do not calculate Tibetan, Vietnamese or Korean new year as separate products — they can share a date with Chinese New Year but are not guaranteed to.

Read the disclaimer and sources before you print invitations. The Gregorian grid underneath is the same engine as the main calendars.

Count days to the festival with days until a date. Print a clean Gregorian month from the printable hub if you only need the Western date.