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April 1938 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 3 / 4. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 1 Apr. Full moon: 15 Apr. New moon: 30 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 21 Apr.
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Lunar 1938 month 3 into 1938 month 4 · Yang Earth Tiger 戊寅 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Fire Dragon · 丙辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 18:48:39 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 21 at 02:14:41 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 29 April 1938 closes lunar 1938 month 3; lunar 1938 month 4 begins 30 April 1938.
Lunar-year structure
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Lunar 1938
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 7 (30 days).
April 1938 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
April 1938 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/7
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
New moon
Lunar 4/1
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 April 1938
- 30 April 1938 — lunar 1938 month 3 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1938 month 4 opens.
- 5 April 1938 at 18:48:39 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 21 April 1938 at 02:14:41 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 1 April 1938 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 15 April 1938 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 30 April 1938 — the first day of lunar month 4.
- 5 April 1938 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.