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Vietnamese lunar calendar conversion (Ho Ngoc Duc algorithm, per calrules) - Enterprise Ready

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Âm Lịch Việt Nam - Vietnamese Lunar Calendar for Python 🇻🇳

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Goal: lightweight - simple – accurate – easy to reuse - Enterprise Ready

lunar-vn is designed for:

  • Vietnamese calendar apps
  • Tết and lunar holiday reminders
  • HR, payroll, booking, and event systems
  • Bots that need Vietnamese lunar dates
  • Cultural, astrology, and Can Chi applications
  • Backend services that need a small, typed, no-dependency package

Features

  • No Dependencies: Ready for enterprise usage with strict typing support (PEP-561 compliant).
  • Support Can Chi: Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches for year, month, day, hour.
  • Vietnamese Holidays: Common solar and lunar holidays included.
  • Convert Solar → Lunar: Accepts robust datetime.date inputs.
  • Convert Lunar → Solar: Accurate conversion using the Ho Ngoc Duc algorithm.
  • Supported Range: High precision conversion from years 1900 to 2100.
  • Leap month support: Handled automatically.
  • Timezone support: Default UTC+7 (Vietnam).
  • Processing Time Benchmark: High-performance conversions utilizing automated caching (clear_cache supported).

Installation

pip install lunar-vn

Usage Examples

Basic Conversion

import datetime as dt
from lunar_vn import solar_to_lunar, lunar_to_solar, LunarDate

# Vietnamese Lunar New Year 2026
solar_date = dt.date(2026, 2, 17)
lunar_date = solar_to_lunar(solar_date)

print(lunar_date) # LunarDate(day=1, month=1, year=2026, leap=False)

# Lunar -> Solar
print(lunar_to_solar(LunarDate(1, 1, 2026))) # 2026-02-17

Get today's Vietnamese lunar date

import datetime as dt
from lunar_vn import solar_to_lunar

today = dt.date.today()
lunar = solar_to_lunar(today)

print(f"Solar: {today}")
print(f"Lunar: {lunar.day}/{lunar.month}/{lunar.year}")
print(f"Leap month: {lunar.leap}")

Can Chi and Holidays

from lunar_vn import solar_to_lunar, can_chi, holidays
import datetime as dt

date = dt.date(2024, 2, 10)
lunar = solar_to_lunar(date)

# Get Year Can Chi
print(can_chi.get_year_can_chi(lunar.year))  # Giáp Thìn

# Get Day Can Chi (requires JDN)
from lunar_vn import jd_from_date
jdn = jd_from_date(date.day, date.month, date.year)
print(can_chi.get_day_can_chi(jdn))  # Giáp Thìn

# Check for Holiday
print(holidays.get_holiday(date))  # Tết Nguyên Đán

Vietnamese Holidays

lunar-vn includes common Vietnamese solar and lunar holidays.

Solar holidays include:

  • Tết Dương Lịch
  • Ngày Lễ Tình Nhân (Valentine)
  • Ngày Quốc Tế Phụ Nữ
  • Ngày Giải Phóng Miền Nam
  • Ngày Quốc Tế Lao Động
  • Ngày Quốc Tế Thiếu Nhi
  • Ngày Quốc Khánh
  • Ngày Phụ Nữ Việt Nam
  • Ngày Nhà Giáo Việt Nam
  • Ngày Thành Lập Quân Đội Nhân Dân Việt Nam
  • Lễ Giáng Sinh

Lunar holidays include:

  • Tết Nguyên Đán
  • Rằm Tháng Giêng
  • Tết Hàn Thực
  • Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương
  • Lễ Phật Đản
  • Tết Đoan Ngọ
  • Lễ Thất Tịch
  • Lễ Vu Lan
  • Tết Trung Thu
  • Tết Hạ Nguyên
  • Tết Ông Công Ông Táo

Generic lunar reminders are also returned for non-leap months:

  • Mùng 1
  • Rằm

Specific lunar holidays still take precedence over these reminders.


Benchmark

To run the benchmark script:

python scripts/benchmark.py

Expected: > 100,000 conversions per second.


Comparison with Chinese Lunar Calendar

See documentation.


Attribution

The Vietnamese lunar calendar algorithm is described by Ho Ngoc Duc on: https://xemamlich.uhm.vn

This library is a Python re-implementation of the published algorithm.


License

MIT License.

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