Chinese Almanac for 2025-04-16
2025-04-16 is Lunar month 3, day 19 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Mao day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-04-16 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 3, day 19 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Chen (Dragon) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Dig a pond (开池)
- Repair a wall (补垣)
- Seal up holes and burrows (塞穴)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Thank the earth god (谢土)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Visit the sick (探病)
- Open for business (开市)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Plant (栽种)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Official's Day (官日), Essential Peace (要安), Five Harmony (五合), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Harm (月害), Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Blood Branch (血支), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rooster (Ji You day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.
Mao (Rabbit) day: traditionally, wells are not dug, as it is said the spring water will turn foul.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | North |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-04-16 corresponds to Lunar month 3, day 19 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?
2025-04-16 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