Korean zodiac by birth year

In Korea, every year has an animal and a color. 2024 was the Blue Dragon, 2026 is the Red Horse and 2027 will be the Red Goat. Find your year below.

Where the color comes from

Each year in the sixty-year cycle is a pair of characters: an element on top and an animal underneath. The color is the Korean color of the top element: Blue for Wood, Red for Fire, Yellow for Earth, White for Metal and Black for Water. So 1990 (庚午) is the White Horse, and 1997 (丁丑) is the Red Ox.

Born in January or early February?

In saju, the year begins at Ipchun (立春), the start of spring, around February 4, not on January 1 or at Lunar New Year. If you were born before about February 4, your saju year is the one before your birth year in this table. The calculator handles this for you.

Your year animal is only one of the eight characters in your chart. The one Korean readers look at first is your day pillar.