Chinese Almanac for 2025-08-20
2025-08-20 is Lunar month 6, day 27 (leap month) on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Xin You day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-08-20 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 27 (leap month) |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Shen (Monkey) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) You (Rooster) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Lay the foundation (起基)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Install a door (安门)
- Dig a canal (开渠)
- Dig a pond (开池)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Travel (出行)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Plant (栽种)
- Take office (赴任)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Yin Virtue (阴德), Official's Day (官日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Removing Spirit (除神), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池), Nine Pits (九坎), Nine Scorches (九焦), Departure and Loss (往亡), Five Separations (五离), Black Tortoise (元武)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rabbit (Yi Mao day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Xin (Yin Metal) day: traditionally, sauce is not made, as it is said the owner will never taste it.
You (Rooster) day: traditionally, guests are not entertained, as it is said drunkenness will lead to madness.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northeast |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | South |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-08-20 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 27 (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?
2025-08-20 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