2041 Chinese Zodiac: Metal Rooster

01 / Check the boundary

What is my Chinese zodiac if I was born in 2041?

Two zodiac signs fall within the Gregorian year 2041. 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.

2041 birth dates and zodiac signs
Gregorian birthday	Animal & year element
January 1, 2041 – January 31, 2041	Metal Monkey 猴
February 1, 2041 – December 31, 2041	Metal Rooster 鸡

The full 2041 lunar year continues into 2042, through January 21, 2042. A birthday on January 31, 2041 belongs to the Monkey; a birthday one day later, on February 1, 2041, belongs to the Rooster.

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02 / The story of the year

What kind of Rooster is 2041?

2041 is a Metal Rooster year. Its stem-branch name is 辛酉 (xīn-yǒu): the heavenly stem 辛 carries yin metal, and the earthly branch 酉 corresponds to the Rooster.

Zodiac animal: Rooster · 鸡
Year element: Metal
Stem & branch: 辛酉 · xīn-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 2041. 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

2041 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 2042.

Lunar months of 2041: Gregorian start and end dates
Lunar month	Begins	Ends	Days
Month 1	February 1, 2041	March 1, 2041	29
Month 2	March 2, 2041	March 31, 2041	30
Month 3	April 1, 2041	April 29, 2041	29
Month 4	April 30, 2041	May 29, 2041	30
Month 5	May 30, 2041	June 27, 2041	29
Month 6	June 28, 2041	July 27, 2041	30
Month 7	July 28, 2041	August 26, 2041	30
Month 8	August 27, 2041	September 24, 2041	29
Month 9	September 25, 2041	October 24, 2041	30
Month 10	October 25, 2041	November 23, 2041	30
Month 11	November 24, 2041	December 22, 2041	29
Month 12	December 23, 2041	January 21, 2042	30

04 / Follow the cycle

Other Years of the Rooster

The Rooster returns every 12 years; the same Metal 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 2029Earth 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.