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March 2026 — Japanese calendar

Explore Japanese calendar traditions, observance days and shrine events. Dates and traditional hours are shown in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Supported dates: 1 January 2026–31 December 2027. Calendar beliefs differ across regions and traditions. This is not a prediction, a guarantee, or a complete schedule for every shrine and temple. Check the institution’s current announcement before attending.

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● New moon · ○ Full moon. Moon-phase instants are shown in JST; your local time appears alongside them when available.

March 1, 2026 Sunday

Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00) · Lunar date 1/13 · Kinoe–Dog 甲戌

What kind of day is it?

Senshō: Traditionally favors the morning over the afternoon.

Bring one effort to completion. Traditionally very favorable for financial consultations, opening or presenting a business, and raising pillars.

An invitation for today, written by this site: Finish one small unfinished task and notice what you have done.

These are historical calendar traditions, not predictions or measures of a person’s luck. They do not determine medical decisions, a funeral’s permissibility, or the outcome of an event.

Current solar term: Rain Water, since February 19, 2026.

Calendar annotations · 3

Other daily cycles

Twelve officers: Accomplish — Traditionally very favorable for financial consultations, opening or presenting a business, and raising pillars.

Twenty-eight mansions: 星 — Traditionally favors horseback riding and discourages weddings and mourning rites.

Twenty-seven mansions: 星. This is a separate cycle; the twenty-eight-mansion interpretation above is not applied to it.

Nine-star cycle: Eight White Earth · ascending cycle. Not a personal birth-year reading.

Moon

Approximate moon age at noon JST: 11.6 days.

● Next New moon:

○ Next Full moon:

Observance days · 4

Lunar-date references · 3
Daily guardians · 2

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Sources and checked dates · 109

Original source titles are retained in Japanese.