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April 2002 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 2002 month 2 into 2002 month 3 · Yang Water Horse 壬午 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Wood Dragon · 甲辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 07:18:17 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 14:20:28 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 12 April 2002 closes lunar 2002 month 2; lunar 2002 month 3 begins 13 April 2002.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2002
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 2002 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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12/19己亥Earth Pig22/20庚子Metal Rat32/21辛丑Metal Ox42/22壬寅Water Tiger2/23癸卯Water RabbitPure Brightness62/24甲辰Wood Dragon2/25乙巳Wood Snake82/26丙午Fire Horse92/27丁未Fire Goat102/28戊申Earth Monkey112/29己酉Earth Rooster122/30庚戌Metal Dog133/1辛亥Metal PigLunar month opens3/2壬子Water Rat153/3癸丑Water Ox163/4甲寅Wood Tiger173/5乙卯Wood Rabbit183/6丙辰Fire Dragon193/7丁巳Fire Snake203/8戊午Earth HorseGrain Rain3/9己未Earth Goat223/10庚申Metal Monkey233/11辛酉Metal Rooster243/12壬戌Water Dog253/13癸亥Water Pig263/14甲子Wood Rat273/15乙丑Wood OxLunar mid-month3/16丙寅Fire Tiger293/17丁卯Fire Rabbit303/18戊辰Earth DragonThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2002 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 2002
- 13 April 2002 — lunar 2002 month 2 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2002 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 2002 at 07:18:17 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2002 at 14:20:28 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 13 April 2002 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 27 April 2002 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 2002 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.