Chinese Almanac for 2025-07-25
2025-07-25 is Lunar month 6, day 1 (leap month) on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Wei day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-07-25 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 1 (leap month) |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Wei (Goat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Wei (Goat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Travel (出行)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Trade (交易)
- Carve (雕刻)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)
- Build a cart or tool (造车器)
- Train cattle and horses (教牛马)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Move house (移徙)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Plant (栽种)
- Break ground (动土)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Guarding Day (守日), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Sacred Heart (圣心)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), Black Tortoise (元武)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Ox (Ji Chou day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.
Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-07-25 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 1 (leap month) 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?
2025-07-25 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