2024 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Wood Dragon

2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon — a Yang Wood year. The animal sign is the Dragon, the fifth of the 12-animal cycle.

2024 carries the Wood element (Yang Wood). Element is set by the year's heavenly stem and cycles every 10 years, so the full Wood Dragon combination returns only once every 60 years.

Those born in 2024, the Year of the Dragon, are traditionally described as confident, ambitious, and charismatic. With the Wood element added, growth, generosity, and cooperation are emphasised.

The Dragon is traditionally most compatible with the Rat, Monkey, Rooster.

Almost — but the Chinese zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year (late January or early February), not January 1. So someone born in early 2024, before that year's Chinese New Year, is actually a Rabbit (the 2023 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.