2025 Chinese Zodiac
2025 is the Year of the Yin Wood Snake.
This Snake year begins on Chinese New Year, January 29, 2025, and runs until the eve of the next lunar new year.
Born in January or early February 2025?
The zodiac animal changes on Chinese New Year, not January 1. If you were born before January 29, 2025, your sign is actually the Dragon (the previous lunar year) — not the Snake.
The element of 2025
🌿 Yin Wood — Wood is growth, expansion, and idealism. It softens an animal's edges and gives it vision, generosity, and a need to keep developing. Wood types plant for a future they may not see, and they wilt without room to grow.
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 2025?
2025 is the year of the Snake — more precisely the Yin Wood Snake. The Snake year begins on Chinese New Year, January 29, 2025.
If I was born in January 2025, what is my sign?
If you were born before January 29, 2025, 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 2025?
The 2025 year carries the Yin Wood element, drawn from the year's Heavenly Stem in the sexagenary cycle. That makes it a Yin Wood Snake.