Chinese Almanac for 2024-10-15
2024-10-15 is Lunar month 9, day 13 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Zi day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-10-15 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 9, day 13 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Xu (Dog) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Dragon |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Get a haircut (理发)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Travel (出行)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month Void (月空), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Four Images (四相), Hour's Virtue (时德), People's Day (民日), Heaven's Shaman (天巫), Blessing Virtue (福德), Universal Protection (普护), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Disaster Star (灾煞), Heaven's Fire (天火), Great Havoc (大煞), Return Taboo (归忌), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Bing Wu 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.
Zi (Rat) day: traditionally, diviners are not consulted, as it is said doing so brings calamity on oneself.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | South |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | North |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | East |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-10-15 corresponds to Lunar month 9, day 13 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?
2024-10-15 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