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March 1980 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 1 / 2. Lantern Festival: 1 Mar. Full moon: 2 Mar. New moon: 17 Mar. Full moon: 31 Mar. Awakening of Insects: 5 Mar. Spring Equinox: 20 Mar.
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Lunar 1980 month 1 into 1980 month 2 · Yang Metal Monkey 庚申 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yin Earth Rabbit · 己卯
- Solar terms
- Awakening of Insects · 5 at 18:16:29 UTC+8; Spring Equinox · 20 at 19:09:40 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 16 March 1980 closes lunar 1980 month 1; lunar 1980 month 2 begins 17 March 1980.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1980
12 lunar months · 355 days · no leap month.
March 1980 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
March 1980 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 1/16
Last quarter
Lunar 1/24
New moon
Lunar 2/1
First quarter
Lunar 2/7
Full moon
Lunar 2/15
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 March 1980
- 17 March 1980 — lunar 1980 month 1 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1980 month 2 opens.
- 5 March 1980 at 18:16:29 UTC+8 — Awakening of Insects, 惊蛰 Jīngzhé, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 March 1980 at 19:09:40 UTC+8 — Spring Equinox, 春分 Chūnfēn, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 1 March 1980 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 1, which falls near the full moon.
- 17 March 1980 — the first day of lunar month 2.
- 31 March 1980 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 2, which falls near the full moon.
- 1 March 1980 — Lantern Festival, lunar 1/15. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, near the first full moon of the new year.