Chinese calendar (Nongli)
Lunisolar calendar: months follow the moon, the 24 solar terms follow the sun; years are named by the sixty-year stem-branch cycle.
Today · 5 November 2026
Bingwu year (Horse), month 9, day 27
- Reliability
- Matches the official almanac from 1645 (current rules). Earlier dates follow today's rules and may differ from the calendar then in use.
- Method
- tyme4rs (6tail, MIT); solar terms from the Shouxing astronomical calendar (sxwnl)
- Culture
- Chinese civilization
Festivals in 2026
- Laba Festival · Eighth day of the twelfth lunar month: Laba porridge.26 January 2026
- Little New Year (Xiaonian) · Twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month in the north (24th in the south): seeing off the Kitchen God.10 February 2026
- New Year's Eve (Chuxi) · Last day of the lunar year: the reunion dinner and offerings to ancestors.16 February 2026
- Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) · First day of the first lunar month, the most important Chinese festival.17 February 2026
- Lantern Festival · Fifteenth day of the first lunar month: lanterns and sweet rice dumplings close the New Year season.3 March 2026
- Dragon Raises Its Head · Second day of the second lunar month, marking the start of spring farming.20 March 2026
- Cold Food Festival · Traditionally a day without fire before Qingming, now observed the day before it.4 April 2026
- Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day) · Solar term of Pure Brightness, when families sweep ancestral graves.5 April 2026
- Dragon Boat Festival · Fifth day of the fifth lunar month: dragon boat races and zongzi.19 June 2026
- Qixi Festival · Seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.19 August 2026
- Ghost Festival (Zhongyuan) · Fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month: offerings to ancestors and wandering spirits.27 August 2026
- Mid-Autumn Festival · Fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month: the full moon, family reunion and mooncakes.25 September 2026
- Double Ninth Festival · Ninth day of the ninth lunar month: climbing heights and honouring the elderly.18 October 2026
- Winter Clothes Day (Hanyi) · First day of the tenth lunar month, when paper clothes are burned for ancestors.9 November 2026
- Winter Solstice (Dongzhi) · The winter solstice, a family and ancestral festival.22 December 2026