Chinese Almanac for 2025-07-20
2025-07-20 is Lunar month 6, day 26 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Geng Yin day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-07-20 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 26 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Wei (Goat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Yin (Tiger) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Break ground (动土)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Start school (入学)
- Open a warehouse (开仓)
- Sell goods (出货财)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Plant (栽种)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Erect a tombstone (立碑)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Thank the earth god (谢土)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month Void (月空), Mother's Granary (母仓), Five Riches (五富), Five Harmony (五合), Golden Chest (金匮), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Wandering Calamity (游祸)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Monkey (Jia Shen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Geng (Yang Metal) day: traditionally, looms are not set up, as it is said the work will come to nothing.
Yin (Tiger) day: traditionally, sacrifices are not offered, as it is said the spirits will not partake.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Center |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | South |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-07-20 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 26 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?
2025-07-20 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