Chinese Almanac for 2031-05-11

2031-05-11 is Lunar month 3, day 20 (leap month) on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Xin Hai day in the Xin Hai (Pig) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2031-05-11
Lunar date Lunar month 3, day 20 (leap month)
Year (Ganzhi) Xin (Yin Metal) Hai (Pig)
Month (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Si (Snake)
Day (Ganzhi) Xin (Yin Metal) Hai (Pig)
Year zodiac Pig

Auspicious for (宜)

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

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Heaven's Virtue (天德), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Golden Hall (金堂), Precious Light (宝光)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Breaker (月破), Great Depletion (大耗), Departure and Loss (往亡), Double Day (重日)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Snake (Yi Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Xin (Yin Metal) day: traditionally, sauce is not made, as it is said the owner will never taste it.

Hai (Pig) day: traditionally, marriages are not held, as it is said it will be unlucky for the groom.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2031-05-11 corresponds to Lunar month 3, day 20 (leap month) 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?

2031-05-11 falls in the Xin Hai year, the year of the Pig.

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