Chinese lunar calendar · month archive
Current month’s calendar & events →April 2013 Chinese lunar calendar
April 2013 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 4 Apr. New moon: 10 Apr. Full moon: 26 Apr. Pure Brightness: 4 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
Choose “Save as PDF” in your browser’s print destination to keep this calendar.
Lunar 2013 month 2 into 2013 month 3 · Yin Water Snake 癸巳 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Fire Dragon · 丙辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 4 at 23:02:27 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 06:03:18 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 9 April 2013 closes lunar 2013 month 2; lunar 2013 month 3 begins 10 April 2013.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2013
12 lunar months · 355 days · no leap month.
April 2013 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
12/21丁酉Fire Rooster22/22戊戌Earth Dog32/23己亥Earth Pig2/24庚子Metal RatPure Brightness52/25辛丑Metal Ox62/26壬寅Water Tiger2/27癸卯Water Rabbit82/28甲辰Wood Dragon92/29乙巳Wood Snake103/1丙午Fire HorseLunar month opens113/2丁未Fire Goat123/3戊申Earth Monkey133/4己酉Earth Rooster3/5庚戌Metal Dog153/6辛亥Metal Pig163/7壬子Water Rat173/8癸丑Water Ox183/9甲寅Wood Tiger193/10乙卯Wood Rabbit203/11丙辰Fire DragonGrain Rain3/12丁巳Fire Snake223/13戊午Earth Horse233/14己未Earth Goat243/15庚申Metal MonkeyLunar mid-month253/16辛酉Metal Rooster263/17壬戌Water Dog273/18癸亥Water Pig3/19甲子Wood Rat293/20乙丑Wood Ox303/21丙寅Fire TigerThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2013 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 2/23
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/9
Full moon
Lunar 3/17
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 2013
- 10 April 2013 — lunar 2013 month 2 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 2013 month 3 opens.
- 4 April 2013 at 23:02:27 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2013 at 06:03:18 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 10 April 2013 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 24 April 2013 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 4 April 2013 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.