Chinese Almanac for 2025-07-16
2025-07-16 is Lunar month 6, day 22 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Xu day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-07-16 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 22 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Wei (Goat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- 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)
Essential Peace (要安), Azure Dragon (青龙)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
River Chief (河魁), Death God (死神), Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Earth Talisman (土符), Earth Pouch (地囊)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dragon (Geng Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.
Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | West |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-07-16 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 22 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?
2025-07-16 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