Chinese Almanac for 2025-12-24
2025-12-24 is Lunar month 11, day 5 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ding Mao day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-12-24 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 5 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Zi (Rat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Level roads (平治道涂)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Dig a well (掘井)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Heaven's Grace (天恩), People's Day (民日), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Five Harmony (五合), Jade Hall (玉堂), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Net (天罡), Death God (死神), Fatal Star (致死), Heaven's Thief (天贼)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rooster (Xin You day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ding (Yin Fire) day: traditionally, hair is not cut, as it is said sores will form on the head.
Mao (Rabbit) day: traditionally, wells are not dug, as it is said the spring water will turn foul.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | West |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-12-24 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 5 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?
2025-12-24 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