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January 1944 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 12 / 1. Laba Festival: 3 Jan. Lunar New Year's Eve: 24 Jan. Chinese New Year: 25 Jan. Full moon: 10 Jan. New moon: 25 Jan. Minor Cold: 6 Jan. Major Cold: 21 Jan.
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Lunar 1943 month 12 into 1944 month 1 · Yin Water Goat 癸未 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑
- Solar terms
- Minor Cold · 6 at 18:39:15 UTC+8; Major Cold · 21 at 12:07:04 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 24 January 1944 closes lunar 1943 month 12; lunar 1944 month 1 begins 25 January 1944.
Lunar-year structure
Two lunar years meet here
Lunar 1943
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
Lunar 1944
13 lunar months · 385 days · leap month 4 (30 days).
January 1944 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
January 1944 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/15
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
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 1944
- 25 January 1944 — lunar 1943 month 12 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1944 month 1 opens.
- 6 January 1944 at 18:39:15 UTC+8 — Minor Cold, 小寒 Xiǎohán, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 21 January 1944 at 12:07:04 UTC+8 — Major Cold, 大寒 Dàhán, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 10 January 1944 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 12, which falls near the full moon.
- 25 January 1944 — the first day of lunar month 1.
- 3 January 1944 — Laba Festival, lunar 12/8. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, in the run-up to the new year.
- 24 January 1944 — Lunar New Year's Eve, lunar 12/29. The last day of the twelfth lunar month, which can be day 29 or day 30.
- 25 January 1944 — Chinese New Year, lunar 1/1. The first day of the first lunar month and the opening of a new lunar year.