Chinese Almanac for 2025-07-18

2025-07-18 is Lunar month 6, day 24 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Wu Zi day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2025-07-18
Lunar date Lunar month 6, day 24
Year (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake)
Month (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Wei (Goat)
Day (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Zi (Rat)
Year zodiac Snake

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Get a haircut (理发)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Relocate the household fire (出火)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Acquire property (置产)
  • Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
  • Move into a new home (入宅)
  • Move house (移徙)
  • Install a door (安门)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Four Images (四相), Golden Hall (金堂), Untying Spirit (解神)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Harm (月害), Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池), Minor Depletion (小耗), Five Voids (五虚), Nine Pits (九坎), Nine Scorches (九焦), Return Taboo (归忌), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Horse (Ren Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Wu (Yang Earth) day: traditionally, land is not accepted, as it is said to be inauspicious for the landowner.

Zi (Rat) day: traditionally, diviners are not consulted, as it is said doing so brings calamity on oneself.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2025-07-18 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 24 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?

2025-07-18 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