Lunar New Year 2027 (Dinh Mui) travel days and hours: day 1 to day 12 and the auspicious hours

Key dates at the start of the Dinh Mui year 2027

A few dates to plan around Tết; all read from the app's almanac:

• Start of Spring (Lập Xuân): Thursday 04/02/2027 — where the Bazi year changes.
• Last day of the Bính Ngọ year: the 29th of the twelfth month, Friday 05/02/2027 — this twelfth month has only 29 days, so Tết 2027 has no 30th day; New Year's Eve is that night.
• Day 1 of Tết: Saturday 06/02/2027, a Bính Thìn day.
• Full moon of the first month (Rằm tháng Giêng): Saturday 20/02/2027, a Canh Ngọ day.
• The Dinh Mui year lasts until the end of 25/01/2028.

See also: Zi Wei 2027: the Dinh Mui year, its transformations and annual chart

Which days to travel at the start of 2027

Inti Soul's almanac engine treats a day as suitable for travel when the almanac lists travel as favourable and not among the things to avoid; when several days qualify, it ranks the auspicious ones first. In the first twelve days of the Dinh Mui year:

• Day 1 (Saturday 06/02/2027) and day 9 (Sunday 14/02/2027): travel favoured, auspicious days — the two ranked first.
• Day 3 (Monday 08/02/2027) and day 12 (Wednesday 17/02/2027): travel favoured, inauspicious days.
• Day 10 (Monday 15/02/2027) and day 11 (Tuesday 16/02/2027): travel is among the things to avoid.
• Days 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 do not mention travel at all; on days 2, 5 and 7 the almanac adds that matters outside its favoured list are best not undertaken.

See also: How to choose travel dates by birth year, all year round

Good days to open a business at the start of 2027

For openings, the engine looks for four activities in the almanac — opening the market, starting a business, trading, signing — among the favoured ones, and rules out days that list any of them among those to avoid. In the first twelve days of the year:

• Day 3 (Monday 08/02/2027) and day 9 (Sunday 14/02/2027) list opening the market, trading and signing as favoured; day 9 is an auspicious day.
• Day 11 (Tuesday 16/02/2027) lists trading and signing as favoured.
• Days 4, 5, 6 and 8 list opening the market among the things to avoid.
• Days 1, 2, 7, 10 and 12 list none of the four (days 2 and 7 advise against matters outside the favoured list).

How to read the auspicious hours

Each day has twelve two-hour periods, starting with the Tý hour (23h the evening before to 1h). The almanac gives each period one of twelve presiding spirits; the six periods whose spirit belongs to the auspicious group — Thanh Long, Minh Đường, Kim Quỹ, Thiên Đức, Ngọc Đường, Tư Mệnh — are the auspicious hours. The set of hours follows the day's earthly branch, so day 1 (a Thìn day) and day 7 (a Tuất day) share the same six auspicious hours.

• Some almanacs also list travel hours by another method, such as the Lý Thuần Phong hours; Inti Soul does not use that method, so the hours here may differ from the almanac you are reading.
• The app's date engine works by the day; the auspicious hours are an extra layer of reference and are not used to rank days.

By birth year: drop the clashing days

Each day clashes with the animal opposite its earthly branch, most directly with one stem-branch year; drop the days that clash with the traveller's animal or that of the person leading the task. For example:

• Day 1 (a Bính Thìn day) clashes with Dog (Tuất) years, most directly Canh Tuất (1970).
• Day 9 (a Giáp Tý day) clashes with Horse (Ngọ) years, most directly Mậu Ngọ (1978).
• Day 10 (an Ất Sửu day) clashes with Goat (Mùi) years, most directly Kỷ Mùi (1979).
• Birth years follow the lunar calendar: anyone born before Tết belongs to the previous lunar year.

See also: First visitor for Lunar New Year 2027 by animal and household head

Safety first, the label on the day second

Choosing travel days and hours is a cultural custom and a way of reflecting; it does not guarantee a trip or a business start. Change the hour or the day when there is a weather warning, when you are unwell or the vehicle is not safe; do not put off a necessary trip or health care just because of a label on a day.

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