Chinese Almanac for 2028-01-11

2028-01-11 is Lunar month 12, day 15 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Wei day in the Ding Wei (Goat) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2028-01-11
Lunar date Lunar month 12, day 15
Year (Ganzhi) Ding (Yin Fire) Wei (Goat)
Month (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Chou (Ox)
Day (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Wei (Goat)
Year zodiac Goat

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Demolish a house (破屋)
  • Demolish a wall (坏垣)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Open for business (开市)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Four Images (四相), Universal Protection (普护)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Breaker (月破), Great Depletion (大耗), Four Strikes (四击), Nine Voids (九空), Black Tortoise (元武)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Ox (Ji Chou day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.

Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.

Auspicious directions

God of Joy (喜神) Northwest
God of Fortune (福神) Southwest
God of Wealth (财神) Northeast
Tai Sui (太岁) Southwest
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) Southwest
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) North

What is today's lunar date?

2028-01-11 corresponds to Lunar month 12, day 15 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?

2028-01-11 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