Chinese New Year Countdown

About Chinese New Year

Lunar New Year celebration. Whether the holiday is a fixed calendar date or a movable feast, the countdown above is recalculated on every page load so it stays accurate across time zones and year rollovers. If the holiday has already passed this year, the counter automatically rolls forward to next year, which means you never need to reset it manually.

Bookmark this page for a single-click way to see how long until Chinese New Year, or use it to plan preparations that take weeks or months — travel bookings, gift shopping, decorating, cooking, or time off from work. For a broader view of upcoming dates, the main countdown page lists every supported holiday side by side.

How the countdown is calculated

Fixed-date holidays such as New Year's Day or Christmas are the simplest case — the next occurrence is always the same calendar date in the current or next year. Movable holidays use a small set of rules: the fourth Thursday of November for US Thanksgiving, the last Monday of May for Memorial Day, or the astronomical formula for Easter and its derivative observances. Holidays that depend on lunar calendars, such as Chinese New Year and Ramadan, are supplied as precomputed dates for each year.

The countdown on this page uses the local clock of your device to determine the current moment, which is why a holiday that has just passed midnight in one time zone may still show a non-zero countdown in another. This is intended — a countdown should reflect your local experience of the calendar, not a universal reference time. When the counter reaches zero, it shows the celebration for that day before rolling forward to next year.