Chinese Lunar ↔ Hijri Date Converter

Convert dates between the Chinese lunisolar calendar and the Islamic Hijri calendar in both directions. Useful anywhere both calendars are part of daily life — Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and China's Muslim communities — and for anyone matching a lunar birthday against a Hijri date.

Today in Both Calendars

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Date Conversion Tool

Chinese Lunar → Hijri

Convert a Chinese lunisolar date into the Islamic calendar.

Date: (year, month, day)
Leap month:
note: Chinese years 1900 to 2100

Hijri → Chinese Lunar

Convert an Islamic date into the Chinese lunisolar calendar.

Date: (day, month, year)
Calendar:
note: Hijri years 1318 to 1523 AH

How the Converter Works

There is no direct arithmetic between the Chinese and Islamic calendars — one is lunisolar, the other purely lunar — so the Gregorian calendar is used as the pivot. Every conversion is one hop: your Chinese date becomes a Gregorian date, and that Gregorian date becomes a Hijri date, or the reverse.

  • ✔ Chinese lunisolar conversion uses the same engine as our Chinese Lunar Calendar converter
  • ✔ Hijri conversion uses the same engine as our Hijri Date Converter — tabular (Meeus / van Gent) plus an embedded Umm al-Qura table
  • ✔ Both Standard Hijri and Umm al-Qura readings are shown
  • ✔ Chinese zodiac sign, cosmic element and year name included

Frequently Asked Questions

Which years does this converter support?

The Chinese lunisolar tables run from 1900 to 2100, and because a Gregorian date before Chinese New Year belongs to the previous lunar year, the first fully supported day is 31 January 1900 (Chinese New Year 1900). That window corresponds to Hijri years 1318 to 1523 AH. The Umm al-Qura table itself covers 1356–1500 AH; outside that the converter falls back to the standard tabular calendar, exactly as the Hijri converter does.

Why can the Hijri result differ by a day from my local calendar?

Islamic months may begin on a local moon sighting rather than on calculation, which can legitimately shift a date by one day. Islamic days also begin at sunset, so the Gregorian and Chinese dates shown here correspond to the daylight portion of the Islamic day. The "today" panel above accounts for sunset when it can determine your location.

What is a Chinese leap month?

The Chinese calendar keeps step with the solar year by inserting an intercalary ("leap") month roughly every three years, repeating the number of the preceding month. If your date falls in one, tick the Leap month box. If that leap month does not exist in the year you entered, the converter clears the box and converts the ordinary month instead.

Does this convert Solar Hijri (Shamsi / Jalali) dates?

No. This tool uses the lunar Hijri calendar — the one whose months are Muharram, Safar, Ramadan and so on, and which moves about 11 days earlier against the Gregorian calendar every year. The Solar Hijri calendar (also called Shamsi or Jalali), used as the civil calendar in Iran and Afghanistan, is a different system with its own months (Farvardin, Ordibehesht, …) and is not supported here.