Year of the Monkey: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Monkey
Clever, playful and endlessly inventive, the Monkey solves what others call unsolvable. Its challenge is aiming the cleverness at things that matter.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Monkey are 2004, 2016 and 2028, and the next arrives in 2040. Keep the boundary in mind: each Chinese year begins at the Lunar New Year, between late January and late February, so a January or early-February birth in a Monkey year may belong to the previous sign, the Goat.
The Monkey is the trickster-genius of the zodiac: clever, playful and endlessly inventive, solving what others call unsolvable. Its lesson is aiming that cleverness at things that matter. A Fire Monkey improvises louder; a Metal Monkey plots longer — the element sets the style.
To check anyone's exact sign, open the full calculator: enter a birth date and it returns the animal, element and yin-yang polarity, verified against exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043 — all computed locally in your browser.
Example. 2000-02-05 is a yang Metal Dragon, while 2000-02-04 is still a yin Earth Rabbit.
Limit. Exact Lunar New Year dates are tabulated only from 1924 through 2043; years outside that range fall back to the calendar year.