Here's when the Chinese New Year starts in 2025, how long it lasts, where the Lunar New Year is celebrated and your guide to the Year of the Snake.

Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, is a 15-day celebration that marks the beginning of the Lunar calendar year. This year, the Chinese New Year celebrations will commence from January 29. The festival is based on the lunar calendar,

“Wise mantras for 2025 are: act with diplomacy, avoid causing offence and deal with the facts on hand and not those gleamed from gossip,” she says. “2025 is a year for listening to each other’s needs and making the best endeavour to combine in a happy compromise for to over assert your authority is to jeopardise your own stability.”

Lunar New Year is celebrated by millions of people all around the world. This year it starts on 29 January which will be the Year of the Snake.

Colorado Springs is celebrating the Chinese New Year. While the New Year officially happens on Jan. 29, there will be a community celebration at the Ent Center of The Arts at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday,