Chinese Almanac for 2024-07-07

2024-07-07 is Lunar month 6, day 2 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Shen day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2024-07-07
Lunar date Lunar month 6, day 2
Year (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon)
Month (Ganzhi) Xin (Yin Metal) Wei (Goat)
Day (Ganzhi) Ren (Yang Water) Shen (Monkey)
Year zodiac Dragon

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Pray for blessings (祈福)
  • Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
  • Treat illness (治病)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Open for business (开市)
  • Move into a new home (入宅)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Yang Virtue (阳德), Minister's Day (相日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Benefiting Descendants (益后), Removing Spirit (除神), Kitchen God (司命), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Robbery Star (劫煞), Heaven's Thief (天贼), Five Voids (五虚), Five Separations (五离)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Tiger (Bing Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Ren (Yang Water) day: traditionally, water is not released, as it is said it will be hard to contain.

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) South
God of Fortune (福神) Southeast
God of Wealth (财神) South
Tai Sui (太岁) Southeast
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) East
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) Southeast

What is today's lunar date?

2024-07-07 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 2 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?

2024-07-07 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