Chinese Almanac for 2028-12-31
2028-12-31 is Lunar month 11, day 16 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Geng Yin day in the Wu Shen (Monkey) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2028-12-31 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 16 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Zi (Rat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Yin (Tiger) |
| Year zodiac | Monkey |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Set up a loom (经络)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Install an altar (安香)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Seek medical treatment (求医)
- Treat illness (治病)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Sweep the house (扫舍)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Plant (栽种)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Build a grave in advance while living (开生坟)
- Make a coffin (合寿木)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Move house (移徙)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Hour's Virtue (时德), Minister's Day (相日), Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Heavenly Horse (天马), Heaven's Shaman (天巫), Blessing Virtue (福德), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Blessing Birth (福生), Five Harmony (五合), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Five Voids (五虚), Return Taboo (归忌), White Tiger (白虎)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Monkey (Jia Shen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Geng (Yang Metal) day: traditionally, looms are not set up, as it is said the work will come to nothing.
Yin (Tiger) day: traditionally, sacrifices are not offered, as it is said the spirits will not partake.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Center |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | South |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2028-12-31 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 16 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?
2028-12-31 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