Chinese Almanac for 2025-08-18
2025-08-18 is Lunar month 6, day 25 (leap month) on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ji Wei day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-08-18 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 25 (leap month) |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Shen (Monkey) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Wei (Goat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Break ground (动土)
- Build a dike (筑堤)
- Dig a pond (开池)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Seal up holes and burrows (塞穴)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Install a door (安门)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Mother's Granary (母仓), Golden Hall (金堂), Jade Hall (玉堂)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Blood Branch (血支), Heaven's Thief (天贼), Five Voids (五虚), Eight Specialization (八专)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Ox (Gui Chou day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ji (Yin Earth) day: traditionally, contracts are not torn up, as it is said both parties will suffer loss.
Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | North |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | North |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-08-18 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 25 (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?
2025-08-18 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