Chinese New Year in 2019 starts today, Tuesday, February 5th, and ends on January 24th, 2020. Conforming to the Chinese horoscope, the year of the Pig 2019 comes right after the Year of the Dog (2018) and before the year of the Metal Rat (2020). Those born in one of these years: 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, and 2019, are a “Pig Chinese Zodiac native.”