Chinese Almanac for 2025-12-16

2025-12-16 is Lunar month 10, day 27 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ji Wei day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2025-12-16
Lunar date Lunar month 10, day 27
Year (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake)
Month (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Zi (Rat)
Day (Ganzhi) Ji (Yin Earth) Wei (Goat)
Year zodiac Snake

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Pray for blessings (祈福)
  • Pray for offspring (求嗣)
  • Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
  • Fell trees (伐木)
  • Set up a frame (架马)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Dig a pond (开池)
  • Build a latrine (开厕)
  • Make fishing nets (结网)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Install a door (安门)
  • Plant (栽种)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Treat illness (治病)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Essential Peace (要安)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Month Harm (月害), Four Strikes (四击), Eight Specialization (八专), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)

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?

2025-12-16 corresponds to Lunar month 10, day 27 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?

2025-12-16 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