Chinese Almanac for 2026-09-30
2026-09-30 is Lunar month 8, day 20 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ding Wei day in the Bing Wu (Horse) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2026-09-30 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 8, day 20 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Wu (Horse) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) You (Rooster) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Wei (Goat) |
| Year zodiac | Horse |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Make fishing nets (结网)
- Hunt (畋猎)
- Go fishing (取渔)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Start school (入学)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Open for business (开市)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Break ground (动土)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Build a boat (造船)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Mother's Granary (母仓), Yin Virtue (阴德), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Precious Light (宝光)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Five Voids (五虚), Eight Winds (八风), Nine Voids (九空), Earth Talisman (土符), Eight Specialization (八专)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Ox (Xin Chou 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.
Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | South |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | West |
What is today's lunar date?
2026-09-30 corresponds to Lunar month 8, day 20 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?
2026-09-30 falls in the Bing Wu year, the year of the Horse.
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