Snake

2025 Chinese zodiac

蛇 Wood Snake · yin

Born between 29 January 2025 and 16 February 2026: you are a Wood Snake. Born in 2025 but before 29 January 2025: your sign is that of 2024, the Wood Dragon.

The year

  • New Year : 29 January 2025
  • Ends : 16 February 2026
  • Animal : Snake
  • Element : Wood (yin)

The Wood element

growth, generosity, openness.

Each animal returns every twelve years with a different element: the same pair only comes back every sixty years.

In the sixty-year cycle

乙巳 yǐ sì

Year 42 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1965 and 2085.

The Snake in one line

Wise and intuitive, it thinks long and strikes true.

Snake: personality, love, work →

Other years of the Snake

Opposite sign

Dates computed from the real positions of the Sun and Moon (NASA JPL DE440s ephemeris, Beijing time) under the rules of the Chinese calendar, and checked against published dates.