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August 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.

August 1, 2026 Saturday

Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00) · Lunar date 6/19 · Hinoto–Goat 丁未

What kind of day is it?

Shakkō: Traditionally cautious, with midday considered more favorable.

One small step. Traditionally considered very auspicious in general, except for disturbing soil or boarding a boat.

An invitation for today, written by this site: Name one thing you would like to begin and consider a manageable first step.

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: Major Heat, since July 23, 2026.

Calendar annotations · 6

Other daily cycles

Twelve officers: Establish — Traditionally considered very auspicious in general, except for disturbing soil or boarding a boat.

Twenty-eight mansions: 女 — Traditionally discourages moving and opening a business.

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

Nine-star cycle: Two Black Earth · descending cycle. Not a personal birth-year reading.

Moon

Approximate moon age at noon JST: 17.7 days.

● Next New moon:

○ Next Full moon:

Observance days · 4

Lunar-date references · 2
Daily guardians · 2

All observances and their traditions · Back to the month

Sources and checked dates · 109

Original source titles are retained in Japanese.