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October 1998 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 8 / 9. Mid-Autumn Festival: 5 Oct. Double Ninth Festival: 28 Oct. Full moon: 6 Oct. New moon: 20 Oct. Cold Dew: 8 Oct. Frost's Descent: 23 Oct.
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Lunar 1998 month 8 into 1998 month 9 · Yang Earth Tiger 戊寅 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Water Dog · 壬戌
- Solar terms
- Cold Dew · 8 at 19:55:45 UTC+8; Frost's Descent · 23 at 22:58:35 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 19 October 1998 closes lunar 1998 month 8; lunar 1998 month 9 begins 20 October 1998.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1998
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 5 (29 days).
October 1998 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
October 1998 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 8/16
Last quarter
Lunar 8/22
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/9
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 October 1998
- 20 October 1998 — lunar 1998 month 8 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1998 month 9 opens.
- 8 October 1998 at 19:55:45 UTC+8 — Cold Dew, 寒露 Hánlù, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 23 October 1998 at 22:58:35 UTC+8 — Frost's Descent, 霜降 Shuāngjiàng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 5 October 1998 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 8, which falls near the full moon.
- 20 October 1998 — the first day of lunar month 9.
- 5 October 1998 — Mid-Autumn Festival, lunar 8/15. The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, near that month's full moon.
- 28 October 1998 — Double Ninth Festival, lunar 9/9. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the double-ninth.