The Chinese calendar incorporates both lunar and solar elements. Although the Western (Gregorian) calendar is used for most day to day activities, the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional holidays such as New Year, Duan Wu festival, and the Mid-Autumn festival. Other countries that use versions of the Chinese calendar include Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam so travel and meeting plans in the region could be affected by, for instance, New Year celebrations.

New moons
2007	February 17
2008	February 7
2009	January 26
2010	February 14
2011	February 3
2012	January 23
2013	February 10
2014	January 30
2015	February 18
2016	February 8
2017	January 28
2018	February 15
2019	February 4
2020	January 24

New Year

Usually, the New Year starts with the second new moon after the winter solstice (sun's lowest point in the sky) which happens around December 21. Because of date/time differences attributable to a country's longitude, New Year's day in say, Vietnam, can be 1 day different from that in China.

Useful links
More information about the Chinese calendar
Moon phase calculator
Chinese years correspondence table
Western calendar in Chinese
2000 year calculator (in Chinese)
World public holidays

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