Chinese Almanac for 2024-06-13
2024-06-13 is Lunar month 5, day 8 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Wu Shen day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-06-13 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 5, day 8 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Wu (Horse) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey) |
| Year zodiac | Dragon |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Travel (出行)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Lay the foundation (起基)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Plant (栽种)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Acquire property (置产)
- Set up a bed (安床)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), Minister's Day (相日), Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Heaven's Shaman (天巫), Blessing Virtue (福德), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Removing Spirit (除神), Azure Dragon (青龙)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Five Voids (五虚), Five Separations (五离)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Tiger (Ren Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Wu (Yang Earth) day: traditionally, land is not accepted, as it is said to be inauspicious for the landowner.
Shen (Monkey) day: traditionally, beds are not set up, as it is said spirits will enter the room.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | North |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northeast |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-06-13 corresponds to Lunar month 5, day 8 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?
2024-06-13 falls in the Jia Chen year, the year of the Dragon.
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