The Year of the Rabbit is here. The Lunar New Year falls on January 22, with many Asian communities celebrating the advent of spring and the beginning of a new year on the lunar calendar.

The Lunar New Year is based on a different calendar than the Gregorian calendar, which many western countries, including the U.S., use. The calendar is based on the moon's 12 phases.

Every year, the Lunar New Year marks the transition from one animal to another. The Year of the Dragon, which began on Feb. 10, 2024, ended Tuesday to begin the Year of the Snake.

On the Gregorian calendar, Lunar New Year generally falls in late January or early February. Similar to the Western New Year, Lunar New Year is a time for celebrants to let go of the past and ring ...

The lunar calendar, unlike the Gregorian calendar, uses the phases of the moon to delineate days, weeks and months of the year. A lunar month is the period of time from one new moon to the next ...

Asian American communities around the U.S. will ring in the Lunar New Year on Feb. 10 with community carnivals, family gatherings, parades, traditional food, fireworks and other festivities.

The Lunar New Year follows the Chinese calendar, which is a lunisolar calendar. Despite its name, the Lunar New Year doesn't follow a purely lunar calendar. Instead, it follows the Chinese ...

Children born in the last lunar calendar year were Dragons, while those born on or after the Lunar New Year in 2026 will be Horses, and so on. Snake-shaped installations dazzle visitors at ...

The first lunisolar calendars in China were established during the Zhou dynasty (1046 BC – 256 BC). During this period, the beginning of the new year was set as the day of the last new moon that ...

In the Chinese calendar, a month lasts a lunar cycle, with its first day marked by the new moon. There are usually 12 months in a Chinese calendar year, but in order to catch up with the Gregorian ...

A lunar month is the period of time from one new moon to the next — about 29.5 days — so the lunar calendar doesn't precisely align with the common one where most months span 30 or 31 days.

This year, Lunar New Year begins Jan. 29. Because the lunar calendar is based on the phases of the moon, the beginning of the year happens on a different day each year.