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April 2004 has 30 days, spanning lunar months leap 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 4 Apr. Full moon: 5 Apr. New moon: 19 Apr. Pure Brightness: 4 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 2004 leap month 2 into 2004 month 3 · Yang Wood Monkey 甲申 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Earth Dragon · 戊辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 4 at 18:43:19 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 01:50:25 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 18 April 2004 closes lunar 2004 leap month 2; lunar 2004 month 3 begins 19 April 2004.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2004
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 2 (29 days).
April 2004 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2004 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 2/16
Last quarter
Lunar leap 2/23
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/10
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 2004
- 19 April 2004 — lunar 2004 leap month 2 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 2004 month 3 opens.
- 4 April 2004 at 18:43:19 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2004 at 01:50:25 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 4 April 2004 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 2, which falls near the full moon.
- 19 April 2004 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 4 April 2004 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.