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October 1940 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 9 / 10. Double Ninth Festival: 9 Oct. New moon: 1 Oct. Full moon: 16 Oct. New moon: 31 Oct. Cold Dew: 8 Oct. Frost's Descent: 23 Oct.
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Lunar 1940 month 9 into 1940 month 10 · Yang Metal Dragon 庚辰 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Fire Dog · 丙戌
- Solar terms
- Cold Dew · 8 at 18:42:23 UTC+8; Frost's Descent · 23 at 21:39:18 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 30 October 1940 closes lunar 1940 month 9; lunar 1940 month 10 begins 31 October 1940.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1940
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
October 1940 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
October 1940 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/8
Full moon
Lunar 9/16
Last quarter
Lunar 9/24
New moon
Lunar 10/1
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 October 1940
- 31 October 1940 — lunar 1940 month 9 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1940 month 10 opens.
- 8 October 1940 at 18:42:23 UTC+8 — Cold Dew, 寒露 Hánlù, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 23 October 1940 at 21:39:18 UTC+8 — Frost's Descent, 霜降 Shuāngjiàng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 1 October 1940 — the first day of lunar month 9.
- 15 October 1940 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 9, which falls near the full moon.
- 31 October 1940 — the first day of lunar month 10.
- 9 October 1940 — Double Ninth Festival, lunar 9/9. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the double-ninth.