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December 1946 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 11 / 12. Winter Solstice: 22 Dec. Laba Festival: 30 Dec. Full moon: 9 Dec. New moon: 23 Dec. Major Snow: 8 Dec. Winter Solstice: 22 Dec.
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Lunar 1946 month 11 into 1946 month 12 · Yang Fire Dog 丙戌 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Rat · 庚子
- Solar terms
- Major Snow · 8 at 01:00:11 UTC+8; Winter Solstice · 22 at 18:53:17 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 22 December 1946 closes lunar 1946 month 11; lunar 1946 month 12 begins 23 December 1946.
Lunar-year structure
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Lunar 1946
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
December 1946 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
December 1946 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 11/9
Full moon
Lunar 11/16
Last quarter
Lunar 11/22
New moon
Lunar 12/1
First quarter
Lunar 12/9
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 December 1946
- 23 December 1946 — lunar 1946 month 11 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1946 month 12 opens.
- 8 December 1946 at 01:00:11 UTC+8 — Major Snow, 大雪 Dàxuě, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 22 December 1946 at 18:53:17 UTC+8 — Winter Solstice, 冬至 Dōngzhì, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 8 December 1946 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 11, which falls near the full moon.
- 23 December 1946 — the first day of lunar month 12.
- 22 December 1946 — Winter Solstice. A seasonal observance fixed by the Winter Solstice solar-term instant.
- 30 December 1946 — Laba Festival, lunar 12/8. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, in the run-up to the new year.