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April 2018 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 16 Apr. Full moon: 30 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 2018 month 2 into 2018 month 3 · Yang Earth Dog 戊戌 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Fire Dragon · 丙辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 04:12:47 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 11:12:33 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 15 April 2018 closes lunar 2018 month 2; lunar 2018 month 3 begins 16 April 2018.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2018
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 2018 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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2/16癸亥Water Pig22/17甲子Wood Rat32/18乙丑Wood Ox42/19丙寅Fire Tiger2/20丁卯Fire RabbitPure Brightness62/21戊辰Earth Dragon72/22己巳Earth Snake2/23庚午Metal Horse92/24辛未Metal Goat102/25壬申Water Monkey112/26癸酉Water Rooster122/27甲戌Wood Dog132/28乙亥Wood Pig142/29丙子Fire Rat2/30丁丑Fire Ox163/1戊寅Earth TigerLunar month opens173/2己卯Earth Rabbit183/3庚辰Metal Dragon193/4辛巳Metal Snake203/5壬午Water HorseGrain Rain213/6癸未Water Goat3/7甲申Wood Monkey233/8乙酉Wood Rooster243/9丙戌Fire Dog253/10丁亥Fire Pig263/11戊子Earth Rat273/12己丑Earth Ox283/13庚寅Metal Tiger3/14辛卯Metal Rabbit303/15壬辰Water DragonLunar mid-monthThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2018 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 2/23
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
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 April 2018
- 16 April 2018 — lunar 2018 month 2 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2018 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 2018 at 04:12:47 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2018 at 11:12:33 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 16 April 2018 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 30 April 2018 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 2018 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.