Chinese Almanac for 2023-11-24

2023-11-24 is Lunar month 10, day 12 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Xu day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2023-11-24
Lunar date Lunar month 10, day 12
Year (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Hai (Pig)
Day (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog)
Year zodiac Rabbit

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Dig a pond (开池)
  • Repair a wall (补垣)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Exhume for reburial (启钻)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Move into a new home (入宅)
  • Move house (移徙)
  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Dig a well (掘井)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Relocate the household fire (出火)
  • Welcome new household members (进人口)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Consecrate a deity statue (开光)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Benefiting Descendants (益后), Golden Chest (金匮)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Blood Branch (血支), Five Voids (五虚)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dragon (Geng Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.

Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2023-11-24 corresponds to Lunar month 10, day 12 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?

2023-11-24 falls in the Gui Mao year, the year of the Rabbit.

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