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April 2015 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. Full moon: 4 Apr. New moon: 19 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 2015 month 2 into 2015 month 3 · Yin Wood Goat 乙未 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 10:39:07 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 17:41:51 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 18 April 2015 closes lunar 2015 month 2; lunar 2015 month 3 begins 19 April 2015.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2015
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 2015 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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12/13丁未Fire Goat22/14戊申Earth Monkey32/15己酉Earth RoosterLunar mid-month42/16庚戌Metal Dog2/17辛亥Metal PigPure Brightness62/18壬子Water Rat72/19癸丑Water Ox82/20甲寅Wood Tiger92/21乙卯Wood Rabbit102/22丙辰Fire Dragon112/23丁巳Fire Snake2/24戊午Earth Horse132/25己未Earth Goat142/26庚申Metal Monkey152/27辛酉Metal Rooster162/28壬戌Water Dog172/29癸亥Water Pig182/30甲子Wood Rat3/1乙丑Wood OxLunar month opens203/2丙寅Fire TigerGrain Rain213/3丁卯Fire Rabbit223/4戊辰Earth Dragon233/5己巳Earth Snake243/6庚午Metal Horse253/7辛未Metal Goat3/8壬申Water Monkey273/9癸酉Water Rooster283/10甲戌Wood Dog293/11乙亥Wood Pig303/12丙子Fire RatThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2015 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 2/16
Last quarter
Lunar 2/24
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
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 2015
- 19 April 2015 — lunar 2015 month 2 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2015 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 2015 at 10:39:07 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2015 at 17:41:51 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 3 April 2015 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 2, which falls near the full moon.
- 19 April 2015 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 5 April 2015 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.