時支 · twelve branches across one civil day
Chinese Zodiac Hour Calculator: Secret Animal & Hour Pillar
At 26 Oct 2026, 06:20 CST (UTC+8), the secret animal is Rabbit and the full hour pillar is 乙卯 Yin Wood Rabbit. Its branch follows the clock; its stem follows the Gui 癸 Day Master.
Clock time → branch · date + time → pillar
Choose the depth of the answer
Time alone is enough for the secret animal. A date unlocks the Day Master rule that derives the hour stem.
Worked example · today, not your birth chart
Rabbit secret animal · 乙卯 hour
- Clock interval
- 05:00–06:59
- Day Master
- Gui 癸
- Full hour pillar
- 乙卯 Yin Wood Rabbit
Rabbit hour belongs to Yin Wood at the centre of the spring sequence. Its secret-animal image is a growing pattern becoming more finely articulated, with attention moving along several small connections. What matters is the shaping of expression, rather than the force of an initial beginning.
Explore the Rabbit hour →Two calculations, kept separate
The clock fixes the branch; the day fixes the stem
That is why “born at 3am” can answer Tiger hour, but cannot name the complete hour pillar without the calendar date.
- 01
Offset from Rat
Add one hour, divide the 24-hour clock into twelve two-hour blocks, and wrap after Pig.
- 02
Read the Day Master
With a date, calculate the day stem under the declared late-Rat boundary convention.
- 03
Apply Five Rats
The day-stem group plus the hour-branch position selects one of ten possible hour stems.
Twelve periods · twelve rich hour records
Every secret animal in one day
Each canonical hour page includes its clock edges, branch coordinates, five possible stems and linked month and direction records.
- 01子 Rat hour
23:00–00:59 · Zi branch · fixed Water
Full hour record → - 02丑 Ox hour
01:00–02:59 · Chou branch · fixed Earth
Full hour record → - 03寅 Tiger hour
03:00–04:59 · Yin branch · fixed Wood
Full hour record → - 04卯 Rabbit hour
05:00–06:59 · Mao branch · fixed Wood
Full hour record → - 05辰 Dragon hour
07:00–08:59 · Chen branch · fixed Earth
Full hour record → - 06巳 Snake hour
09:00–10:59 · Si branch · fixed Fire
Full hour record → - 07午 Horse hour
11:00–12:59 · Wu branch · fixed Fire
Full hour record → - 08未 Goat hour
13:00–14:59 · Wei branch · fixed Earth
Full hour record → - 09申 Monkey hour
15:00–16:59 · Shen branch · fixed Metal
Full hour record → - 10酉 Rooster hour
17:00–18:59 · You branch · fixed Metal
Full hour record → - 11戌 Dog hour
19:00–20:59 · Xu branch · fixed Earth
Full hour record → - 12亥 Pig hour
21:00–22:59 · Hai branch · fixed Water
Full hour record →