When is Lunar New Year 2027? The Year of the Goat begins Friday, February 6 — spring festival travel and family reunions across East Asia.
Current target date: Saturday, February 6, 2027 (Lunar New Year). Calendar anchors follow public observance — your school district or country may use a different day.
Lunar New Year 2027 begins Friday, February 6, opening the Year of the Goat in the Chinese zodiac cycle. Public holidays in China, Vietnam, and Korea stretch across multiple days even though the new moon anchor is a single instant. Parades in Chinatowns worldwide often land the following weekend.
Lunar New Year
Saturday, February 6, 2027
The date moves every year because it's tied to a new moon, not a fixed day
Unlike a Gregorian-calendar holiday that lands on the same numbered day annually, Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that falls somewhere between January 21 and February 20 — a roughly 30-day window set by the lunisolar calendar. For 2027, that new moon lands on February 6, but the same calculation puts 2026's date in mid-February and other years as early as late January.
That's also why the holiday is sometimes called "Spring Festival" in China rather than tied to a specific calendar day the way a fixed-date holiday would be.
"Lunar New Year" isn't always the identical date everywhere it's celebrated
China, Vietnam, and Korea all derive their new year from the same lunisolar principle, but the specific new-moon calculation can differ by timezone. Vietnam has, in some years, landed a day off China's date because it calculates the astronomical new moon in its own local time rather than Beijing's. Treat this page's February 6, 2027 date as the Chinese calendar's answer specifically, and cross-check Vietnam's or Korea's own civil calendar if that's what you're actually planning around.
It's a 15-day festival, and the countdown above only covers day one
- Day 1 (Feb 6, 2027): the new moon and the start of public holidays in China, tied to family reunion dinners the night before.
- Days 2–7: the core public holiday window most workplaces observe, though exact length varies by country and year.
- Days 8–14: celebrations continue at a lower intensity across the diaspora, including Chinatown events that often shift to the nearest weekend.
- Day 15: the Lantern Festival, on the following full moon — the actual close of the celebration, well after this page's countdown hits zero.
The days around this date drive what's usually called the largest annual human migration on Earth
China's Spring Festival travel period ("chunyun"), centered on this new year date, involves an estimated travel volume in the billions of trips as people return to their hometowns — a scale regularly cited as the largest periodic human migration anywhere, dwarfing other major holiday travel rushes. It's a logistics event as much as a cultural one, which is why flights and trains around February 6, 2027 sell out far earlier than a typical Western holiday weekend.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this release date.
1Why does Chinese New Year fall on a different date every year?
It's set by the Chinese lunisolar calendar, not the Gregorian one — the new year begins on the new moon that falls between January 21 and February 20. Because a lunar month is about 29.5 days, the date drifts within that window each year rather than staying fixed like a solar-calendar holiday.
2Is Chinese New Year the same date as Vietnamese Tết and Korean Seollal?
Usually, but not guaranteed. All three trace to the same lunisolar system, but Vietnam calculates its new moon using its own timezone rather than China's — in rare years that difference shifts Tết a day earlier than the Chinese date. 2027 is not one of the known mismatch years, but it's worth checking each country's own civil calendar rather than assuming identical dates by default.
3When does the Chinese New Year celebration actually end?
The public holiday is typically the first few days, but the full festival period runs 15 days from the new moon and closes with the Lantern Festival on the following full moon — in 2027 that lands in mid-to-late February, well after the countdown on this page reaches zero.
4What zodiac year is 2027?
2027 opens the Year of the Goat (also translated as Sheep or Ram depending on the source) in the 12-animal cycle, following 2026's Year of the Horse.
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