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April 1983 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 13 Apr. Full moon: 27 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 1983 month 2 into 1983 month 3 · Yin Water Pig 癸亥 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Fire Dragon · 丙辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 16:44:23 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 23:50:09 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 12 April 1983 closes lunar 1983 month 2; lunar 1983 month 3 begins 13 April 1983.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1983
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 1983 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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12/18己未Earth Goat22/19庚申Metal Monkey2/20辛酉Metal Rooster42/21壬戌Water Dog2/22癸亥Water PigPure Brightness62/23甲子Wood Rat72/24乙丑Wood Ox82/25丙寅Fire Tiger92/26丁卯Fire Rabbit2/27戊辰Earth Dragon112/28己巳Earth Snake122/29庚午Metal Horse133/1辛未Metal GoatLunar month opens143/2壬申Water Monkey153/3癸酉Water Rooster163/4甲戌Wood Dog3/5乙亥Wood Pig183/6丙子Fire Rat193/7丁丑Fire Ox203/8戊寅Earth TigerGrain Rain213/9己卯Earth Rabbit223/10庚辰Metal Dragon233/11辛巳Metal Snake3/12壬午Water Horse253/13癸未Water Goat263/14甲申Wood Monkey273/15乙酉Wood RoosterLunar mid-month283/16丙戌Fire Dog293/17丁亥Fire Pig303/18戊子Earth RatThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 1983 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 2/22
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
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 1983
- 13 April 1983 — lunar 1983 month 2 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1983 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 1983 at 16:44:23 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 1983 at 23:50:09 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 13 April 1983 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 27 April 1983 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 1983 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.