Chinese Calendar & Lunar Date Tools

Find a Chinese lunar date, browse the year ahead, or save a festival to your calendar. These tools and guides explain dates in English while keeping the Chinese calendar’s month and day alongside the Gregorian date.

Which tool do you need?

• Date converter: look up the lunar month and day for a Gregorian date, or find a Gregorian date from a lunar date.
• 2027 calendar: see an entire year, jump to a month and print a copy.
• Chinese New Year guide: check the new year’s date and understand the Fire Goat year.
• Qingming guide: understand the solar-term date and plan a family visit.

Is the Chinese calendar a lunar calendar?

It is commonly called a lunar calendar, but it is more precisely lunisolar: months follow the Moon while the calendar also stays aligned with the solar year. A leap month is sometimes added. As a result, the same lunar festival falls on different Gregorian dates from year to year.

An Indonesian perspective

Kalender Tionghoa started as an Indonesian-language calendar website. In Indonesia, Chinese New Year is often called Imlek, the Lantern Festival Cap Go Meh, and Qingming Cheng Beng or Ceng Beng. Our English guides connect these names so you can recognize them when reading family or community announcements.