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Auspicious Wedding Dates for May 2028結婚 · May 2028

By Master Sean Chan · Updated

This month carries Li Xia (立夏) — start of the BaZi summer on May 5 (Singapore time): the BaZi calendar's sectional boundary for the month. Mid-month transition into the BaZi summer; element balance shifts noticeably across the term.Below is the universal Chinese metaphysics ranking of every day in May 2028 for a wedding ceremony, derived from the classical Tong Shu (通書). It applies to no specific couple — it shows which days the calendar itself favours or warns against based on the Twelve Officers (建除十二神), Twenty-Eight Mansions (二十八宿), monthly and yearly Shen Sha (神煞), and the Yellow/Black Dao (黃黑道) cycle.

Top-ranked dates this month

31
days in May
25
pass hard requirements
4
rank as 上吉
5
top picks below
DateDay PillarOfficer 建除 Mansion 宿Clash 沖Class
12028-05-13辛丑Completing未 (Goat)上吉
22028-05-22庚戌Holding辰 (Dragon)上吉
32028-05-25癸丑Completing未 (Goat)上吉
42028-05-07乙未滿 Filling丑 (Ox)上吉
52028-05-27乙卯Opening酉 (Rooster)

All days in May 2028

DateDay PillarOfficerMansion ClashNotable factorsClass
2028-05-01己丑未 Goat建除 收 · 宿 昴
2028-05-02庚寅申 MonkeyFailed requirement: not_year_break大凶
2028-05-03辛卯酉 Rooster建除 閉
2028-05-04壬辰戌 DogFailed requirement: not_four_separation大凶
2028-05-05癸巳亥 Pig建除 建 · 宿 井
2028-05-06甲午子 Rat建除 除 · 黃道
2028-05-07乙未滿丑 Ox月德合 · 宿 柳 · 黃道上吉
2028-05-08丙申寅 Tiger天德合 · 建除 平
2028-05-09丁酉卯 Rabbit建除 定 · 宿 張
2028-05-10戊戌辰 Dragon建除 執 · 黃道
2028-05-11己亥巳 SnakeFailed requirement: not_month_break大凶
2028-05-12庚子午 Horse月德 · 建除 危
2028-05-13辛丑未 Goat天德 · 建除 成 · 宿 亢上吉
2028-05-14壬寅申 MonkeyFailed requirement: not_year_break大凶
2028-05-15癸卯酉 Rooster建除 開 · 宿 房
2028-05-16甲辰戌 Dog建除 閉 · 宿 心 · 黃道
2028-05-17乙巳亥 Pig月德合 · 建除 建
2028-05-18丙午子 Rat天德合 · 建除 除 · 宿 箕
2028-05-19丁未滿丑 Ox宿 斗 · 黃道
2028-05-20戊申寅 Tiger建除 平 · 宿 牛
2028-05-21己酉卯 Rabbit建除 定 · 宿 女
2028-05-22庚戌辰 Dragon月德 · 建除 執 · 宿 虛上吉
2028-05-23辛亥巳 SnakeFailed requirement: not_month_break大凶
2028-05-24壬子午 Horse建除 危
2028-05-25癸丑未 Goat建除 成 · 宿 壁 · 黃道上吉
2028-05-26甲寅申 MonkeyFailed requirement: not_year_break大凶
2028-05-27乙卯酉 Rooster月德合 · 建除 開 · 宿 婁
2028-05-28丙辰戌 Dog天德合 · 建除 閉 · 宿 胃
2028-05-29丁巳亥 Pig建除 建 · 宿 昴
2028-05-30戊午子 Rat建除 除 · 宿 畢 · 黃道
2028-05-31己未滿丑 Ox黃道
Personalised next step

BaZi-Aligned Date Report — May 2028

USD 388

A personalised PDF that re-ranks every wedding-suitable day in May 2028 against your BaZi (and, for weddings/ROM, your partner’s BaZi). It surfaces:

Order the report →

See the full glossary of classical date-selection terms in the BaZi Glossary & Auxiliary Stars.

Further reading from the blog

Selected posts from Master Sean Chan's blog covering this topic and closely related ones in practice:

Frequently asked

Why isn’t my day on the list of top 5?

The top list is the universal ranking before any personal adjustment. Many couples find their best date isn’t in the top 5. Once you account for your day pillars, the right day often shifts. That’s exactly the gap the BaZi-Aligned Date Report fills.

What does 大凶 mean and can it ever be overridden?

大凶 means the day fails a hard classical requirement: 月破 (month break), 歲破 (year break), or 四離/四絕 (a quarter-day boundary). These cannot be overridden by personal alignment; they are excluded categorically. Choose another day.

Why don’t you show times here?

Hour selection is personal. The right hour depends on your day pillar and the chosen day’s element relationship to it. Publishing universal “auspicious hours” misleads readers into thinking a generic hour is safe; it isn’t. Hours are included in the personalised report.

Where do these scores come from?

The classical Tong Shu (通書) tradition: 建除十二神 (Twelve Officers), 二十八宿 (Twenty-Eight Mansions), 月德 / 天德 (monthly and yearly virtue stars), 黃黑道 (Yellow/Black Dao), and the Dong Gong (董公) per-purpose rules. We compute these directly from astronomical solar terms — no app shortcuts.

What if my partner’s zodiac clashes with all the top dates?

Both partners’ year branches need to be respected. The universal ranking can’t see your partner; the personalised report does. In practice, the right wedding date is rarely the universally top-ranked one once both charts are considered. That’s expected, not a problem.

Methodology

Each day’s pillar is computed from the 60 Jiazi rotation anchored against the published Tong Shu, not from any single calendar app. The BaZi year flips at Li Chun (立春) and the BaZi month flips at every sectional solar term, both calculated from VSOP87 solar-longitude data so the boundaries land on the right minute. Twelve Officers and the 28 Mansions each rotate deterministically against well-known anchors.

The per-purpose weights are Dong Gong’s (董公擇日) — adjusted where modern almanacs disagree, in favour of the Hong Kong Observatory and Taiwan CWB lineage. Auspicious stars add to the score, taboo stars subtract, the day’s officer and mansion shift it further, and Yellow Dao adds a final small bonus. The final number gets capped at 100 and mapped to one of five tiers.