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January 1938 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 11 / 12 / 1. Laba Festival: 9 Jan. Lunar New Year's Eve: 30 Jan. Chinese New Year: 31 Jan. New moon: 2 Jan. Full moon: 16 Jan. New moon: 31 Jan. Minor Cold: 6 Jan. Major Cold: 21 Jan.
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Lunar 1937 month 11 into 1937 month 12 into 1938 month 1 · Yin Fire Ox 丁丑 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yin Water Ox · 癸丑
- Solar terms
- Minor Cold · 6 at 07:31:08 UTC+8; Major Cold · 21 at 00:58:42 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 1 January 1938 closes lunar 1937 month 11; lunar 1937 month 12 begins 2 January 1938. 30 January 1938 closes lunar 1937 month 12; lunar 1938 month 1 begins 31 January 1938.
Lunar-year structure
Two lunar years meet here
Lunar 1937
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
Lunar 1938
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 7 (30 days).
January 1938 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
January 1938 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 12/1
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/15
Last quarter
Lunar 12/22
New moon
Lunar 1/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
Boundaries & marked days
What happens in January 1938
- 2 January 1938 — lunar 1937 month 11 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1937 month 12 opens.
- 31 January 1938 — lunar 1937 month 12 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1938 month 1 opens.
- 6 January 1938 at 07:31:08 UTC+8 — Minor Cold, 小寒 Xiǎohán, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 21 January 1938 at 00:58:42 UTC+8 — Major Cold, 大寒 Dàhán, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 2 January 1938 — the first day of lunar month 12.
- 16 January 1938 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 12, which falls near the full moon.
- 31 January 1938 — the first day of lunar month 1.
- 9 January 1938 — Laba Festival, lunar 12/8. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, in the run-up to the new year.
- 30 January 1938 — Lunar New Year's Eve, lunar 12/29. The last day of the twelfth lunar month, which can be day 29 or day 30.
- 31 January 1938 — Chinese New Year, lunar 1/1. The first day of the first lunar month and the opening of a new lunar year.