Chinese Almanac for 2025-05-13
2025-05-13 is Lunar month 4, day 16 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Wu day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-05-13 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 4, day 16 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Si (Snake) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Wu (Horse) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Break ground (动土)
- Install a door (安门)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Plant (栽种)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Renovate a grave (修坟)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Visit the sick (探病)
- Build the stove (作灶)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Grace (天恩), Official's Day (官日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Sacred Heart (圣心), Azure Dragon (青龙), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rat (Bing Zi day); traditionally best to avoid the North 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.
Wu (Horse) day: traditionally, roofs are not thatched, as it is said the owner's fortune will change.
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?
2025-05-13 corresponds to Lunar month 4, day 16 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?
2025-05-13 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