2013 Chinese Zodiac
2013 is the Year of the Yin Water Snake.
This Snake year begins on Chinese New Year, February 10, 2013, and runs until the eve of the next lunar new year.
Born in January or early February 2013?
The zodiac animal changes on Chinese New Year, not January 1. If you were born before February 10, 2013, your sign is actually the Dragon (the previous lunar year) — not the Snake.
The element of 2013
💧 Yin Water — Water is intuition, empathy, and flexibility. It deepens an animal's emotional intelligence and persuasive charm, helping it flow around obstacles rather than through them. Water types connect easily, but can be impressionable and prone to drift.
People born in the Year of the Snake
The Snake is the zodiac's strategist — still on the surface, ceaselessly calculating underneath. Snakes are private, intuitive, and seductively composed; they reveal little and miss nothing. Where others act, a Snake observes, waits, and strikes once, decisively. They are drawn to depth — philosophy, mystery, beauty, power — and bored by the obvious. People find them magnetic and slightly unknowable, which is exactly how a Snake likes it. Their confidence is quiet because it has nothing to prove.
Snake lucky colors & numbers
| Lucky colors | Black, Red, Yellow |
|---|---|
| Lucky numbers | 2, 8, 9 |
| Native guardian (本命佛) | Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (普贤菩萨) |
Other Years of the Snake
Frequently asked questions
What Chinese zodiac animal is 2013?
2013 is the year of the Snake — more precisely the Yin Water Snake. The Snake year begins on Chinese New Year, February 10, 2013.
If I was born in January 2013, what is my sign?
If you were born before February 10, 2013, you are actually a Dragon (the previous lunar year), not a Snake. The animal only changes on Chinese New Year's Day.
What element is 2013?
The 2013 year carries the Yin Water element, drawn from the year's Heavenly Stem in the sexagenary cycle. That makes it a Yin Water Snake.