1945 Chinese Zodiac: Wood Rooster

01 / Check the boundary

What is my Chinese zodiac if I was born in 1945?

Two zodiac signs fall within the Gregorian year 1945. Choose the row containing your birthday. These dates include both the first and last day; the animal changes at Chinese New Year, not on January 1.

1945 birth dates and zodiac signs
Gregorian birthday	Animal & year element
January 1, 1945 – February 12, 1945	Wood Monkey 猴
February 13, 1945 – December 31, 1945	Wood Rooster 鸡

The full 1945 lunar year continues into 1946, through February 1, 1946. A birthday on February 12, 1945 belongs to the Monkey; a birthday one day later, on February 13, 1945, belongs to the Rooster.

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02 / The story of the year

What kind of Rooster is 1945?

1945 is a Wood Rooster year. Its stem-branch name is 乙酉 (yǐ-yǒu): the heavenly stem 乙 carries yin wood, and the earthly branch 酉 corresponds to the Rooster.

Zodiac animal: Rooster · 鸡
Year element: Wood
Stem & branch: 乙酉 · yǐ-yǒu
Lunar year length: 354 days

Rooster personality in tradition

The Rooster is linked with watchfulness and the arrival of a new day. Jī is the general Chinese word for chicken.

The phrase “attentive & expressive” describes a traditional association with this animal, rather than a rule about everyone born in 1945. The year element is one part of the calendar; it does not establish a person's complete five-elements or Bāzì chart.

我属鸡。

Wǒ shǔ jī. “I was born in the Year of the Rooster.”

Rooster compatibility in folklore

Rooster, Ox and Snake form a traditional harmony group of three. Rabbit sits opposite Rooster, six places away in the twelve-animal cycle. These describe symbolic positions, not evidence of who will make a good partner.

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03 / A closer look at the dates

1945 lunar calendar at a glance

This Rooster year contains 12 lunar months and 354 days. There is no leap lunar month in this year. A leap month keeps the same animal and year element. The table follows the full lunar year, so its final months extend into 1946.

Lunar months of 1945: Gregorian start and end dates
Lunar month	Begins	Ends	Days
Month 1	February 13, 1945	March 13, 1945	29
Month 2	March 14, 1945	April 11, 1945	29
Month 3	April 12, 1945	May 11, 1945	30
Month 4	May 12, 1945	June 9, 1945	29
Month 5	June 10, 1945	July 8, 1945	29
Month 6	July 9, 1945	August 7, 1945	30
Month 7	August 8, 1945	September 5, 1945	29
Month 8	September 6, 1945	October 5, 1945	30
Month 9	October 6, 1945	November 4, 1945	30
Month 10	November 5, 1945	December 4, 1945	30
Month 11	December 5, 1945	January 2, 1946	29
Month 12	January 3, 1946	February 1, 1946	30

04 / Follow the cycle

Other Years of the Rooster

The Rooster returns every 12 years; the same Wood Rooster combination returns every 60. These are the other Rooster years in our 1901–2100 directory. Their New Year dates differ, so open a year to check its exact birthday boundary.

1909Earth Rooster 1921Metal Rooster 1933Water Rooster 1957Fire Rooster 1969Earth Rooster 1981Metal Rooster 1993Water Rooster 2005Wood Rooster 2017Fire Rooster 2029Earth Rooster 2041Metal Rooster 2053Water Rooster 2065Wood Rooster 2077Fire Rooster 2089Earth Rooster

Sources & calendar convention

Dates are calculated from our local lunar-month dataset. The links below provide the Observatory’s calendar for this Gregorian year and an explanation of the stem-branch cycle. Cultural interpretations are introductory folklore, not predictions.