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June 2012 has 30 days, spanning lunar months leap 4 / 5. Dragon Boat Festival: 23 Jun. Full moon: 4 Jun. New moon: 19 Jun. Grain in Ear: 5 Jun. Summer Solstice: 21 Jun.
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Lunar 2012 leap month 4 into 2012 month 5 · Yang Water Dragon 壬辰 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午
- Solar terms
- Grain in Ear · 5 at 14:25:54 UTC+8; Summer Solstice · 21 at 07:08:48 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 18 June 2012 closes lunar 2012 leap month 4; lunar 2012 month 5 begins 19 June 2012.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2012
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 4 (29 days).
June 2012 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
June 2012 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 4/15
Last quarter
Lunar leap 4/22
New moon
Lunar 5/1
First quarter
Lunar 5/9
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 June 2012
- 19 June 2012 — lunar 2012 leap month 4 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 2012 month 5 opens.
- 5 June 2012 at 14:25:54 UTC+8 — Grain in Ear, 芒种 Mángzhòng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 21 June 2012 at 07:08:48 UTC+8 — Summer Solstice, 夏至 Xiàzhì, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 4 June 2012 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 4, which falls near the full moon.
- 19 June 2012 — the first day of lunar month 5.
- 23 June 2012 — Dragon Boat Festival, lunar 5/5. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month, often called the double-fifth.