2025 Chinese Zodiac: Wood Snake
People born in 2025 are Yin Wood Snakes, with one important exception: the first weeks of the year.
Quick answer
The 2025 zodiac year ran from January 29, 2025 to February 16, 2026. If you were born on or after January 29, 2025, your sign is the Wood Snake. If you were born earlier in 2025, you belong to the Wood Dragon of 2024.
Wood Snake personality
Wise, intuitive and composed.
The Snake is the sixth animal of the zodiac and represents wisdom, intuition and transformation. Snakes are calm, observant and private, preferring to think deeply before acting.
Wood years add growth, creativity and flexibility. Wood people tend to be idealistic, cooperative and always learning.
Strengths: Intelligent and intuitive, Calm and composed, Elegant, Determined, Good strategist. Watch for: Secretive, Possessive, Suspicious, Vain, Slow to trust.
Read the full Snake guide for love, career and compatibility.
Born early in 2025?
The Chinese zodiac follows the lunisolar calendar, so a January or February birth often belongs to the previous animal. In 2025, Chinese New Year fell on January 29, 2025. Anyone born before that date is a Wood Dragon instead. See the Dragon guide.
2025 zodiac year facts
- Chinese New Year 2025 fell on a Wednesday, January 29, 2025.
- The Snake year lasted 384 days, longer than a calendar year because the lunisolar calendar added a leap month.
- Anyone born in the first 28 days of 2025 (January 1 to January 29, 2025) belongs to the previous sign.
- People born in 2025 turn 1 or 0 during 2026, depending on their birthday.
- The same Wood Snake combination appears every 60 years: previously in 1965.
Other Snake years: 2001, 2013. Each has a different element, which colors the animal's traits.
Snake compatibility
The Snake is traditionally most harmonious with Ox and Rooster, and tends to clash with the Pig.
Near 2025, the Snake's harmonious partners were born in: Ox: 2021; Rooster: 2029.
The Chinese zodiac is a cultural tradition offered for reflection and entertainment.