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April 1960 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 3 / 4. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. Full moon: 12 Apr. New moon: 26 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 1960 month 3 into 1960 month 4 · Yang Metal Rat 庚子 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 02:43:33 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 10:05:51 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 25 April 1960 closes lunar 1960 month 3; lunar 1960 month 4 begins 26 April 1960.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1960
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 6 (29 days).
April 1960 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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13/6己未Earth Goat23/7庚申Metal Monkey3/8辛酉Metal Rooster43/9壬戌Water Dog3/10癸亥Water PigPure Brightness63/11甲子Wood Rat73/12乙丑Wood Ox83/13丙寅Fire Tiger93/14丁卯Fire Rabbit3/15戊辰Earth DragonLunar mid-month113/16己巳Earth Snake123/17庚午Metal Horse133/18辛未Metal Goat143/19壬申Water Monkey153/20癸酉Water Rooster163/21甲戌Wood Dog3/22乙亥Wood Pig183/23丙子Fire Rat193/24丁丑Fire Ox203/25戊寅Earth TigerGrain Rain213/26己卯Earth Rabbit223/27庚辰Metal Dragon233/28辛巳Metal Snake3/29壬午Water Horse253/30癸未Water Goat264/1甲申Wood MonkeyLunar month opens274/2乙酉Wood Rooster284/3丙戌Fire Dog294/4丁亥Fire Pig304/5戊子Earth RatThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 1960 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 3/9
Full moon
Lunar 3/17
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 1960
- 26 April 1960 — lunar 1960 month 3 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1960 month 4 opens.
- 5 April 1960 at 02:43:33 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 1960 at 10:05:51 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 10 April 1960 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 26 April 1960 — the first day of lunar month 4.
- 5 April 1960 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.