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March 2018 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 1 / 2. Lantern Festival: 2 Mar. Full moon: 2 Mar. New moon: 17 Mar. Full moon: 31 Mar. Awakening of Insects: 5 Mar. Spring Equinox: 21 Mar.
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Lunar 2018 month 1 into 2018 month 2 · Yang Earth Dog 戊戌 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yin Wood Rabbit · 乙卯
- Solar terms
- Awakening of Insects · 5 at 23:28:11 UTC+8; Spring Equinox · 21 at 00:15:28 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 16 March 2018 closes lunar 2018 month 1; lunar 2018 month 2 begins 17 March 2018.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2018
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
March 2018 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
March 2018 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 1/15
Last quarter
Lunar 1/22
New moon
Lunar 2/1
First quarter
Lunar 2/8
Full moon
Lunar 2/15
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 March 2018
- 17 March 2018 — lunar 2018 month 1 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 2018 month 2 opens.
- 5 March 2018 at 23:28:11 UTC+8 — Awakening of Insects, 惊蛰 Jīngzhé, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 21 March 2018 at 00:15:28 UTC+8 — Spring Equinox, 春分 Chūnfēn, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 2 March 2018 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 1, which falls near the full moon.
- 17 March 2018 — the first day of lunar month 2.
- 31 March 2018 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 2, which falls near the full moon.
- 2 March 2018 — Lantern Festival, lunar 1/15. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, near the first full moon of the new year.