Chinese Almanac for 2019-06-26

2019-06-26 is Lunar month 5, day 24 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Wu day in the Ji Hai (Pig) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2019-06-26
Lunar date Lunar month 5, day 24
Year (Ganzhi) Ji (Yin Earth) Hai (Pig)
Month (Ganzhi) Geng (Yang Metal) Wu (Horse)
Day (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Wu (Horse)
Year zodiac Pig

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Exhume for reburial (启钻)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Raise the roof beam (上梁)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Heaven's Pardon (天赦), Yang Virtue (阳德), Official's Day (官日), Golden Hall (金堂), Kitchen God (司命), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), Month Punishment (月刑), Month Aversion (月厌), Earth Fire (地火), Earth Talisman (土符)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Rat (Wu Zi day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.

Wu (Horse) day: traditionally, roofs are not thatched, as it is said the owner's fortune will change.

Auspicious directions

God of Joy (喜神) Northeast
God of Fortune (福神) North
God of Wealth (财神) Northeast
Tai Sui (太岁) North
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) Southwest
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) Northeast

What is today's lunar date?

2019-06-26 corresponds to Lunar month 5, day 24 on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar.

What should be avoided on this day?

Traditional almanac sources list the items under Inauspicious for (忌) above as activities best avoided on this day.

Which zodiac year is this day in?

2019-06-26 falls in the Ji Hai year, the year of the Pig.

Solar terms: astronomical calculation. Daily do's and don'ts, auspicious/inauspicious spirits, clashes, and Peng Zu's taboos: Xieji Bianfangshu (协纪辨方书) tradition, as encoded in lunar-typescript · Last updated 2026-09-11