2007 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Fire Pig

By Astrolivo editorial team

In the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the Year of the Fire Pig (Ding-hai) ran inclusively from February 18, 2007, through February 6, 2008.

Because the 2007 Lunar New Year fell relatively late—on February 18—anyone born in January or the first seventeen days of February 2007 belongs to the preceding Dog year rather than the Pig year.

2007 Birth Date Lookup

Verify your birth date against the inclusive ranges in this Chinese zodiac reference table:

Why the Gregorian Year Alone Is Not Enough

The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, aligning lunar months with the solar cycle. Because Lunar New Year shifts across late January and mid-February on the civil Gregorian calendar, looking only at the year "2007" misses more than six weeks of the preceding lunar year.

Consider a hypothetical comparison: someone born on February 10, 2007, falls before Lunar New Year and belongs to the Dog year, whereas someone born eight days later on February 18, 2007, is born on Lunar New Year's Day and belongs to the Fire Pig year.

The 2007 Stem, Element, and 60-Year Cycle

Traditional Chinese timekeeping pairs ten heavenly stems with twelve earthly branches (represented by the twelve zodiac animals) to form a 60-year cycle anchored in modern reference tables by Jia-zi (1984). While the Pig recurs every 12 years, it does not carry the same element on each return; the full Fire Pig (Ding-hai) combination repeats only once every 60 years.

The official 2007 Hong Kong Observatory conversion table designates the year as Ding-hai (Year of the Pig). In traditional five-phase (Wu Xing) mapping, both Bing and Ding stems correspond to Fire, making the lunar year starting February 18, 2007, the Year of the Fire Pig.

How This Differs from Western Sun Signs and Four Pillars

• Western Sun signs follow approximately month-long segments of the tropical solar year, whereas this Chinese zodiac lookup applies to an entire lunisolar year.
• Four Pillars (BaZi) astrology generally transitions the year pillar at the solar term Li Chun (around February 4—which in 2007 occurred two weeks before Lunar New Year) and calculates four pillars for the birth year, month, day, and hour. This page uses the civil Lunar New Year boundary for year lookup, not a Four Pillars calculation.

Sources and Reference Basis

Inclusive start and end dates and the Ding-hai (Year of the Pig) header are taken from the official Hong Kong Observatory Gregorian-lunar conversion tables for 2007 and 2008. The 60-year stem-branch sequence follows the Hong Kong Observatory reference tables, the five-phase mapping (Ding = Fire) is confirmed in Yoo & Yoon (2019, DOI: 10.14369/jkmc.2019.32.2.017), and historical calendar context comes from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal Museums Greenwich. These calendar designations are part of a symbolic cultural tradition, not scientifically validated personality measures.