Born in 2025: the Snake
A Yin Wood Snake 🐍
Snakes are deep thinkers who plan quietly and rarely waste a move. They are perceptive about people and financially shrewd. As a Wood-element year, 2025 adds a cooperative, growth-minded and quietly generous streak to the usual Snake character.
The 2025 lunar year ran from January 29, 2025 to February 17, 2026. If you were born on or after January 29, 2025 you are a Snake; if you were born earlier in 2025, you belong to the previous year's sign, the Dragon.
What the Wood element adds
Wood is the element of spring, growth and cooperation. A Wood year tends to soften an animal's sharper edges and push it toward teamwork, patience and building things that last rather than chasing quick wins.
The full 60-year cycle pairs each of the 12 animals with each of the 5 elements, so a Wood Snake year comes around only once every 60 years — the last one before 2025 was 1965, and the next is 2085. People born in it are said to combine wise and private with the element's cooperative nature. Its Yin/Yang polarity is fixed as Yin for every Snake year. See the Wood element and the full Wood Snake profile.
2025 at a glance
| Animal | 🐍 Snake (蛇) |
|---|---|
| Element | Wood |
| Polarity | Yin |
| Best match | Monkey |
| Hardest match | Pig |
| Lucky numbers | 2, 8, 9 |
| Lucky colors | red, light yellow, black |
Snake compatibility
In the traditional chart, a 2025 Snake gets on best with the Monkey (the "secret friend" pairing), and also with Ox and Rooster. The hardest pairing is the Pig, six years apart in the cycle. See the full Snake compatibility table.
Your zodiac years
The Snake returns every 12 years, so someone born in 2025 is back in their own zodiac year in 2037, 2049, 2061, 2073 and so on. Tradition calls this your běnmìngnián — despite being "your" year, it is thought to clash with Tài Suì (the God of Age) and to carry a higher chance of setbacks, so many people wear red through it for protection.
Other Snake years
1941 1953 1965 1977 1989 2001 2013 2037
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Frequently asked questions
What Chinese zodiac sign is 2025?
2025 is the year of the Snake (Wood Snake, Yin polarity). Anyone born on or after January 29, 2025 is a Snake; a birthday earlier in 2025 belongs to the previous sign, the Dragon.
What element is the 2025 zodiac year?
2025 is a Wood-element year. Wood is the element of spring, growth and cooperation. A Wood year tends to soften an animal's sharper edges and push it toward teamwork, patience and building things that last rather than chasing quick wins.
Who is a 2025 Snake most compatible with?
Best matches are the Monkey (the "secret friend"), plus the Ox and Rooster. The hardest match is the Pig.
Is 2025 a lucky year to be born in?
Chinese tradition does not rank whole years as lucky or unlucky to be born in — every animal has strengths and weaknesses. The one combination widely treated with caution is the Fire Horse, and 2025 is not a Fire Horse year.