Chinese Almanac for 2028-04-03

2028-04-03 is Lunar month 3, day 9 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Wu Wu day in the Wu Shen (Monkey) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2028-04-03
Lunar date Lunar month 3, day 9
Year (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey)
Month (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Mao (Rabbit)
Day (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Wu (Horse)
Year zodiac Monkey

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Take in a son-in-law (纳婿)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Break ground (动土)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Move into a new home (入宅)
  • Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
  • Set up a bed (安床)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Hour's Virtue (时德), People's Day (民日), Benefiting Descendants (益后), Golden Chest (金匮)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

River Chief (河魁), Death God (死神), Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Rat (Ren Zi day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Wu (Yang Earth) day: traditionally, land is not accepted, as it is said to be inauspicious for the landowner.

Wu (Horse) day: traditionally, roofs are not thatched, as it is said the owner's fortune will change.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2028-04-03 corresponds to Lunar month 3, day 9 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?

2028-04-03 falls in the Wu Shen year, the year of the Monkey.

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