Our New Year's celebrations aren't over just yet. Lunar New Year starts on January 29th (the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar) and continues until the Lantern Festival on February 12th, throughout which time many East Asian cultures will fête the Year of the Snake.

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.

“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.”