Year of the Snake: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Snake
Wise, private and elegantly strategic, the Snake thinks three moves ahead. Its challenge is letting people see the warmth behind the calm.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Snake are 2001, 2013 and 2025; the next follows in 2037. As always, the Lunar New Year sets the boundary: it falls between late January and late February, so a January or early-February birth in a Snake year can still belong to the previous sign, the Dragon.
The Snake is the strategist of the cycle: wise, private and elegant, thinking three moves ahead while saying little. Its challenge is letting people see the warmth behind the calm. A Fire Snake and a Water Snake share the strategy but not the temperature.
Want to verify a sign — yours or anyone's? The calculator behind this page reads any birth date against exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043 and returns the animal, element and yin or yang, entirely 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.