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April 1946 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 2 Apr. Full moon: 16 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 21 Apr.
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Lunar 1946 month 2 into 1946 month 3 · Yang Fire Dog 丙戌 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 17:38:32 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 21 at 01:02:08 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 1 April 1946 closes lunar 1946 month 2; lunar 1946 month 3 begins 2 April 1946.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1946
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 1946 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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12/29乙巳Wood Snake23/1丙午Fire HorseLunar month opens33/2丁未Fire Goat43/3戊申Earth Monkey3/4己酉Earth RoosterPure Brightness63/5庚戌Metal Dog3/6辛亥Metal Pig83/7壬子Water Rat93/8癸丑Water Ox103/9甲寅Wood Tiger113/10乙卯Wood Rabbit123/11丙辰Fire Dragon133/12丁巳Fire Snake3/13戊午Earth Horse153/14己未Earth Goat163/15庚申Metal MonkeyLunar mid-month173/16辛酉Metal Rooster183/17壬戌Water Dog193/18癸亥Water Pig203/19甲子Wood Rat3/20乙丑Wood OxGrain Rain223/21丙寅Fire Tiger233/22丁卯Fire Rabbit243/23戊辰Earth Dragon253/24己巳Earth Snake263/25庚午Metal Horse273/26辛未Metal Goat3/27壬申Water Monkey293/28癸酉Water Rooster303/29甲戌Wood DogThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 1946 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
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 1946
- 2 April 1946 — lunar 1946 month 2 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1946 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 1946 at 17:38:32 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 21 April 1946 at 01:02:08 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 2 April 1946 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 16 April 1946 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 1946 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.