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April 2012 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 3 / 4. Qingming Festival: 4 Apr. Full moon: 7 Apr. New moon: 21 Apr. Pure Brightness: 4 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 2012 month 3 into 2012 month 4 · Yang Water Dragon 壬辰 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Wood Dragon · 甲辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 4 at 17:05:37 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 00:12:05 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 20 April 2012 closes lunar 2012 month 3; lunar 2012 month 4 begins 21 April 2012.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2012
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 4 (29 days).
April 2012 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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3/11壬辰Water Dragon23/12癸巳Water Snake33/13甲午Wood Horse3/14乙未Wood GoatPure Brightness53/15丙申Fire MonkeyLunar mid-month63/16丁酉Fire Rooster73/17戊戌Earth Dog3/18己亥Earth Pig93/19庚子Metal Rat103/20辛丑Metal Ox113/21壬寅Water Tiger123/22癸卯Water Rabbit133/23甲辰Wood Dragon143/24乙巳Wood Snake3/25丙午Fire Horse163/26丁未Fire Goat173/27戊申Earth Monkey183/28己酉Earth Rooster193/29庚戌Metal Dog203/30辛亥Metal PigGrain Rain214/1壬子Water RatLunar month opens4/2癸丑Water Ox234/3甲寅Wood Tiger244/4乙卯Wood Rabbit254/5丙辰Fire Dragon264/6丁巳Fire Snake274/7戊午Earth Horse284/8己未Earth Goat4/9庚申Metal Monkey304/10辛酉Metal RoosterThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2012 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 3/17
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
New moon
Lunar 4/1
First quarter
Lunar 4/9
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 April 2012
- 21 April 2012 — lunar 2012 month 3 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2012 month 4 opens.
- 4 April 2012 at 17:05:37 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2012 at 00:12:05 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 5 April 2012 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 21 April 2012 — the first day of lunar month 4.
- 4 April 2012 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.