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Today, Thursday 5 November 2026, is the 27th day of the 9th lunar month of the Bính Ngọ year, a Quý Mùi day, in the Frost Descent solar term.

November 2026Thursday

Day Quý Mùi

Month Mậu Tuất

Year Bính Ngọ

Good hours 6 auspicious hours

Lunar27month 9
Today

Calculated in Vietnam time. The first day of each lunar month is checked against NASA new-moon data, solar terms against the Paris Observatory. Good hours are a convention with no astronomical data to check against. How it is calculated

Auspicious hours

All 12 hoursTý23–1hSửu1–3hDần3–5hMão5–7hThìn7–9hTỵ9–11hNgọ11–13hMùi13–15hThân15–17hDậu17–19hTuất19–21hHợi21–23h

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Today in the traditional almanac

Lunar month starts checked against NASA new-moon data, solar terms against the Paris Observatory, in Vietnam time

Auspicious hours are a convention of the traditional almanac, with no astronomical data to check against.

This season

Year-end weddings and house-building

Towards the end of the lunar year many families plan weddings and groundbreakings. These are the things people look up most right now.

93 days until Tết Đinh Mùi (6 Feb 2027)

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  1. 01What is Can Chi?
  2. 02The Vietnamese lunar calendar is really lunisolar
  3. 03Where do Tử Vi, Bát Tự and Thái Ất come from?
  4. 04How does Nhật Nguyệt use sources?

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Lunar-solar calendar 1900 to 2100, the 60-year cycle, 64 hexagrams, Vietnamese festivals. Anyone may download and reuse them with attribution.

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