2029 Chinese Zodiac: Earth Rooster

01 / Check the boundary

What is my Chinese zodiac if I was born in 2029?

Two zodiac signs fall within the Gregorian year 2029. 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.

2029 birth dates and zodiac signs
Gregorian birthday	Animal & year element
January 1, 2029 – February 12, 2029	Earth Monkey 猴
February 13, 2029 – December 31, 2029	Earth Rooster 鸡

The full 2029 lunar year continues into 2030, through February 2, 2030. A birthday on February 12, 2029 belongs to the Monkey; a birthday one day later, on February 13, 2029, belongs to the Rooster.

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02 / The story of the year

What kind of Rooster is 2029?

2029 is a Earth Rooster year. Its stem-branch name is 己酉 (jǐ-yǒu): the heavenly stem 己 carries yin earth, and the earthly branch 酉 corresponds to the Rooster.

Zodiac animal: Rooster · 鸡
Year element: Earth
Stem & branch: 己酉 · jǐ-yǒu
Lunar year length: 355 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 2029. 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

2029 lunar calendar at a glance

This Rooster year contains 12 lunar months and 355 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 2030.

Lunar months of 2029: Gregorian start and end dates
Lunar month	Begins	Ends	Days
Month 1	February 13, 2029	March 14, 2029	30
Month 2	March 15, 2029	April 13, 2029	30
Month 3	April 14, 2029	May 12, 2029	29
Month 4	May 13, 2029	June 11, 2029	30
Month 5	June 12, 2029	July 10, 2029	29
Month 6	July 11, 2029	August 9, 2029	30
Month 7	August 10, 2029	September 7, 2029	29
Month 8	September 8, 2029	October 7, 2029	30
Month 9	October 8, 2029	November 5, 2029	29
Month 10	November 6, 2029	December 4, 2029	29
Month 11	December 5, 2029	January 3, 2030	30
Month 12	January 4, 2030	February 2, 2030	30

04 / Follow the cycle

Other Years of the Rooster

The Rooster returns every 12 years; the same Earth 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 1945Wood Rooster 1957Fire Rooster 1969Earth Rooster 1981Metal Rooster 1993Water Rooster 2005Wood Rooster 2017Fire 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.