Chinese Almanac for 2028-09-06

2028-09-06 is Lunar month 7, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Wu day in the Wu Shen (Monkey) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2028-09-06
Lunar date Lunar month 7, day 18
Year (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey)
Month (Ganzhi) Geng (Yang Metal) Shen (Monkey)
Day (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Wu (Horse)
Year zodiac Monkey

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Pray for blessings (祈福)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
  • Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Release water (放水)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Dig a well (掘井)
  • Trade (交易)
  • Sign a contract (立券)
  • Plant (栽种)
  • Dig a canal (开渠)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • None (无)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Heavenly Horse (天马), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Jade Palace (玉宇), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Disaster Star (灾煞), Heaven's Fire (天火), White Tiger (白虎)

Clash & direction to avoid

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

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.

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

What is today's lunar date?

2028-09-06 corresponds to Lunar month 7, day 18 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?

2028-09-06 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