Chinese Almanac for 2027-10-24
2027-10-24 is Lunar month 9, day 25 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Zi day in the Ding Wei (Goat) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2027-10-24 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 9, day 25 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Wei (Goat) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Xu (Dog) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Goat |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Ask the bride's name (问名)
- Move house (移徙)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Build a latrine (开厕)
- Start school (入学)
- Lay the foundation (起基)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Open a warehouse (开仓)
- Sell goods (出货财)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Thank the earth god (谢土)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue (天德), Month's Virtue (月德), Hour's Virtue (时德), People's Day (民日), Heaven's Shaman (天巫), Blessing Virtue (福德), Universal Protection (普护), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Disaster Star (灾煞), Heaven's Fire (天火), Great Havoc (大煞), Return Taboo (归忌), Water Dragon Contact (触水龙), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Geng Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.
Zi (Rat) day: traditionally, diviners are not consulted, as it is said doing so brings calamity on oneself.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | South |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | West |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2027-10-24 corresponds to Lunar month 9, day 25 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?
2027-10-24 falls in the Ding Wei year, the year of the Goat.
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