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April 1972 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 14 Apr. Full moon: 28 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 1972 month 2 into 1972 month 3 · Yang Water Rat 壬子 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Wood Dragon · 甲辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 00:28:50 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 07:37:29 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 13 April 1972 closes lunar 1972 month 2; lunar 1972 month 3 begins 14 April 1972.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1972
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 1972 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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12/18壬戌Water Dog2/19癸亥Water Pig32/20甲子Wood Rat42/21乙丑Wood Ox2/22丙寅Fire TigerPure Brightness62/23丁卯Fire Rabbit72/24戊辰Earth Dragon82/25己巳Earth Snake2/26庚午Metal Horse102/27辛未Metal Goat112/28壬申Water Monkey122/29癸酉Water Rooster132/30甲戌Wood Dog143/1乙亥Wood PigLunar month opens153/2丙子Fire Rat3/3丁丑Fire Ox173/4戊寅Earth Tiger183/5己卯Earth Rabbit193/6庚辰Metal Dragon203/7辛巳Metal SnakeGrain Rain213/8壬午Water Horse223/9癸未Water Goat3/10甲申Wood Monkey243/11乙酉Wood Rooster253/12丙戌Fire Dog263/13丁亥Fire Pig273/14戊子Earth Rat283/15己丑Earth OxLunar mid-month293/16庚寅Metal Tiger3/17辛卯Metal RabbitThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 1972 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 2/24
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/7
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
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 1972
- 14 April 1972 — lunar 1972 month 2 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1972 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 1972 at 00:28:50 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 1972 at 07:37:29 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 14 April 1972 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 28 April 1972 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 1972 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.