Chinese Calendar
Online Chinese / Gregorian Calendar with Chinese festivals. This Calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar.
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) 2026
February 17, 2026 — Year of the Fire Horse 马
| Date | |
|---|---|
| January 1, 2026 | New Year |
| February 17, 2026 | Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) |
| March 3, 2026 | Lantern Festival |
| April 5, 2026 | Qingming Festival |
| May 1, 2026 | Labor Day |
| June 19, 2026 | Duan Wu (Dragon Boat) |
| August 19, 2026 | Qixi Festival (Chinese Valent.'s Day) |
| September 25, 2026 | Mid-Autumn Festival |
| October 1, 2026 | National Day |
| October 18, 2026 | Double Ninth Festival |
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The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, and that explains everything about it
It follows the moon for its months and the sun for its year, and reconciling the two is where all its apparent oddities come from. A month begins at the new moon and lasts twenty-nine or thirty days, so twelve of them fall short of a solar year by about eleven days. Left alone, the New Year would drift through the seasons, as it does in the Islamic calendar.
It is not left alone: an extra month is inserted every two or three years to catch up. That is why Chinese New Year moves within a window of about a month in the Western calendar, and why it never drifts out of it. The same mechanism explains why a Chinese birthday falls on a different Western date each year.
The calendar still governs the festivals, and it is still what many people consult for a wedding date. This converter turns any Western date into its Chinese equivalent and back, with the animal of the year, the sexagenary cycle of stems and branches, and the solar terms that mark the agricultural seasons.