Tibetan Calendar
This year
2026 Fire Male Horse
- Tibetan me pho ta
- Losar 18 February 2026 – 6 February 2027
- Cycle year 40 of rabjung 17
- Royal year 2153
Five elements, twelve animals, male and female by turns: the same pair comes back only after sixty years - one rabjung. A year begins at Losar, not in January.
1900s
1910s
1920s
1920 Iron Male Monkey
- Tibetan chak pho trel
- Losar 20 February 1920 – 7 February 1921
- Cycle year 54 of rabjung 15
- Royal year 2047
The days themselves begin in 2000 - this far back the calendar keeps the year, not its days.