Chinese Almanac for 2025-04-05

2025-04-05 is Lunar month 3, day 8 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Chen day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2025-04-05
Lunar date Lunar month 3, day 8
Year (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake)
Month (Ganzhi) Geng (Yang Metal) Chen (Dragon)
Day (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon)
Year zodiac Snake

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Travel (出行)
  • Repair the wall (修饰垣墙)
  • Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)
  • Train cattle and horses (教牛马)
  • Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Nothing advised today (诸事不宜)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Guarding Day (守日), Jade Palace (玉宇), Azure Dragon (青龙)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), Month Punishment (月刑), Yang Error (阳错)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dog (Wu Xu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

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

Chen (Dragon) day: traditionally, weeping is avoided, as it is said to foretell a second death in the family.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2025-04-05 corresponds to Lunar month 3, 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?

2025-04-05 falls in the Yi Si year, the year of the Snake.

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