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