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October 2016 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 9 / 10. Double Ninth Festival: 9 Oct. New moon: 1 Oct. Full moon: 16 Oct. New moon: 31 Oct. Cold Dew: 8 Oct. Frost's Descent: 23 Oct.
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Lunar 2016 month 9 into 2016 month 10 · Yang Fire Monkey 丙申 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Earth Dog · 戊戌
- Solar terms
- Cold Dew · 8 at 04:33:23 UTC+8; Frost's Descent · 23 at 07:45:33 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 30 October 2016 closes lunar 2016 month 9; lunar 2016 month 10 begins 31 October 2016.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2016
12 lunar months · 355 days · no leap month.
October 2016 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
October 2016 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/9
Full moon
Lunar 9/16
Last quarter
Lunar 9/23
New moon
Lunar 10/1
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 October 2016
- 31 October 2016 — lunar 2016 month 9 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2016 month 10 opens.
- 8 October 2016 at 04:33:23 UTC+8 — Cold Dew, 寒露 Hánlù, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 23 October 2016 at 07:45:33 UTC+8 — Frost's Descent, 霜降 Shuāngjiàng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 1 October 2016 — the first day of lunar month 9.
- 15 October 2016 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 9, which falls near the full moon.
- 31 October 2016 — the first day of lunar month 10.
- 9 October 2016 — Double Ninth Festival, lunar 9/9. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the double-ninth.