Chinese Almanac for 2025-05-18
2025-05-18 is Lunar month 4, day 21 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ding Hai day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-05-18 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 4, day 21 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Si (Snake) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Hai (Pig) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Demolish a house (破屋)
- Demolish a wall (坏垣)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Nothing advised today (诸事不宜)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Golden Hall (金堂), Precious Light (宝光)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Breaker (月破), Great Depletion (大耗), Four Exhaustions (四穷), Seven Birds (七鸟), Departure and Loss (往亡), Double Day (重日)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Snake (Xin Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ding (Yin Fire) day: traditionally, hair is not cut, as it is said sores will form on the head.
Hai (Pig) day: traditionally, marriages are not held, as it is said it will be unlucky for the groom.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | West |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-05-18 corresponds to Lunar month 4, day 21 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?
2025-05-18 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