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February 2016 has 29 days, spanning lunar months 12 / 1. Lunar New Year's Eve: 7 Feb. Chinese New Year: 8 Feb. Lantern Festival: 22 Feb. New moon: 8 Feb. Full moon: 23 Feb. Beginning of Spring: 4 Feb. Rain Water: 19 Feb.
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Lunar 2015 month 12 into 2016 month 1 · Yang Fire Monkey 丙申 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Tiger · 庚寅
- Solar terms
- Beginning of Spring · 4 at 17:46:03 UTC+8; Rain Water · 19 at 13:33:43 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 7 February 2016 closes lunar 2015 month 12; lunar 2016 month 1 begins 8 February 2016.
Lunar-year structure
Two lunar years meet here
Lunar 2015
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
Lunar 2016
12 lunar months · 355 days · no leap month.
February 2016 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 2016 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/8
Full moon
Lunar 1/16
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 February 2016
- 8 February 2016 — lunar 2015 month 12 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 2016 month 1 opens.
- 4 February 2016 at 17:46:03 UTC+8 — Beginning of Spring, 立春 Lìchūn, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 19 February 2016 at 13:33:43 UTC+8 — Rain Water, 雨水 Yǔshuǐ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 8 February 2016 — the first day of lunar month 1.
- 22 February 2016 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 1, which falls near the full moon.
- 7 February 2016 — Lunar New Year's Eve, lunar 12/29. The last day of the twelfth lunar month, which can be day 29 or day 30.
- 8 February 2016 — Chinese New Year, lunar 1/1. The first day of the first lunar month and the opening of a new lunar year.
- 22 February 2016 — Lantern Festival, lunar 1/15. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, near the first full moon of the new year.