2013 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Water Snake
Year of the Water Snake
Animal
🐍 Snake
Element
Yin Water
Cycle position
#6 of 12
About the 2013 Snake year
- 2013 is a Yin Water year — the Water element colours the Snake's nature with intuition, adaptability, and empathy.
- The Snake is the sixth of the 12 zodiac animals. The previous Snake year was 2001 and the next is 2025.
- People born in the Year of the Snake are traditionally seen as wise, intuitive, and composed. The Snake is said to pair most harmoniously with the Ox, Rooster, Monkey.
Best matches for the Snake
Signs the Snake is traditionally most compatible with.
- Ox
- Rooster
- Monkey
Frequently asked
2013 is the Year of the Water Snake — a Yin Water year. The animal sign is the Snake, the sixth of the 12-animal cycle.
2013 carries the Water element (Yin Water). Element is set by the year's heavenly stem and cycles every 10 years, so the full Water Snake combination returns only once every 60 years.
Those born in 2013, the Year of the Snake, are traditionally described as wise, intuitive, and composed. With the Water element added, intuition, adaptability, and empathy are emphasised.
The Snake is traditionally most compatible with the Ox, Rooster, Monkey.
Almost — but the Chinese zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year (late January or early February), not January 1. So someone born in early 2013, before that year's Chinese New Year, is actually a Dragon (the 2012 sign). If your birthday is in late January or early February, enter your full date of birth in the Age Calculator to confirm your exact sign.
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