Snake strengths in tradition
- Wise and perceptive
- Calm and composed
- Strong intuition
- Elegant and discreet
2025 Chinese zodiac: Year of the Wood Snake
The 2025 Chinese year ran from Wednesday 29 January 2025 to Monday 16 February 2026.
Its sign is the Yin Wood Snake: 乙巳 (Yǐ-sì) in the 60-year cycle.
Born 1–28 January 2025? Then you belong to the previous Chinese year: the Wood Dragon of 2024.
Chinese New Year or Lichun?
Most calendars change the animal at Chinese New Year. Four Pillars (BaZi) astrology starts the year at Lichun, the Start of Spring, instead. For births around the turn of the year the two counts differ:
- 29 January – 2 February 2025: Wood Snake by Chinese New Year, Wood Dragon by Lichun.
- 3 February 2025 (Lichun day): by Lichun, Wood Dragon before 22:10 China time and Wood Snake from then on; by Chinese New Year, Wood Snake.
- 4 February 2026 (Lichun day): by Lichun, Wood Snake before 04:01 China time and Fire Horse from then on; by Chinese New Year, Wood Snake.
- 5–16 February 2026: Wood Snake by Chinese New Year, Fire Horse by Lichun.
Dates and times in China time. The Chinese zodiac calculator converts them for your birthplace and shows both counts.
The Wood Snake in Chinese astrology
A Wood Snake is said to be more open and creative, with a love of learning and a steady, patient wisdom.
The Snake is the sixth Chinese zodiac animal, associated in tradition with wisdom, intuition and a calm, private grace. Wood is the element of growth and new beginnings, linked in Chinese tradition with spring, generosity and steady expansion.
Snake challenges in tradition
- Slow to trust others
- Can be secretive
- Holds on to grudges
- Reluctant to share feelings
Traditions, not predictions. The Snake in love and at work · The five elements
Other Snake years
The Wood Snake every 60 years
← 2024 Wood Dragon · 2026 Fire Horse → · All years 1900–2100
Questions and answers
What Chinese zodiac is 2025?
2025 is the Year of the Wood Snake (yin Wood, 乙巳 Yǐ-sì), from 29 January 2025 to 16 February 2026. Anyone born 1–28 January 2025 belongs to the previous Chinese year, the Wood Dragon.
What element is 2025 in the Chinese zodiac?
Wood, in its yin form: the year’s Heavenly Stem is 乙 (Yǐ). Wood years are years ending in 4 or 5 – counted by the Chinese year, which begins in late January or February.
I was born in January 2025 — which animal am I?
If you were born before 29 January 2025, the date of Chinese New Year, your sign is the Wood Dragon of the 2024 Chinese year; from 29 January 2025 on, it is the Wood Snake. Four Pillars (BaZi) astrology counts from Lichun instead (3 February 2025, 22:10 China time).
When was Chinese New Year 2025?
It was on Wednesday 29 January 2025 (China time). The next one, on Tuesday 17 February 2026, began the Year of the Fire Horse.