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April 2010 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 14 Apr. Full moon: 28 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 2010 month 2 into 2010 month 3 · Yang Metal Tiger 庚寅 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 05:30:30 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 12:29:48 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 13 April 2010 closes lunar 2010 month 2; lunar 2010 month 3 begins 14 April 2010.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2010
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 2010 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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12/17辛巳Metal Snake22/18壬午Water Horse32/19癸未Water Goat2/20甲申Wood Monkey2/21乙酉Wood RoosterPure Brightness62/22丙戌Fire Dog72/23丁亥Fire Pig82/24戊子Earth Rat92/25己丑Earth Ox102/26庚寅Metal Tiger2/27辛卯Metal Rabbit122/28壬辰Water Dragon132/29癸巳Water Snake143/1甲午Wood HorseLunar month opens153/2乙未Wood Goat163/3丙申Fire Monkey173/4丁酉Fire Rooster3/5戊戌Earth Dog193/6己亥Earth Pig203/7庚子Metal RatGrain Rain213/8辛丑Metal Ox223/9壬寅Water Tiger233/10癸卯Water Rabbit243/11甲辰Wood Dragon3/12乙巳Wood Snake263/13丙午Fire Horse273/14丁未Fire Goat283/15戊申Earth MonkeyLunar mid-month293/16己酉Earth Rooster303/17庚戌Metal DogThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2010 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 2/22
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/9
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 2010
- 14 April 2010 — lunar 2010 month 2 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 2010 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 2010 at 05:30:30 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2010 at 12:29:48 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 14 April 2010 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 28 April 2010 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 2010 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.