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April 2020 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 3 / 4. Qingming Festival: 4 Apr. Full moon: 8 Apr. New moon: 23 Apr. Pure Brightness: 4 Apr. Grain Rain: 19 Apr.
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Lunar 2020 month 3 into 2020 month 4 · Yang Metal Rat 庚子 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 4 at 15:38:09 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 19 at 22:45:29 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 22 April 2020 closes lunar 2020 month 3; lunar 2020 month 4 begins 23 April 2020.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2020
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 4 (29 days).
April 2020 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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13/9甲戌Wood Dog23/10乙亥Wood Pig33/11丙子Fire Rat3/12丁丑Fire OxPure Brightness3/13戊寅Earth Tiger63/14己卯Earth Rabbit73/15庚辰Metal DragonLunar mid-month83/16辛巳Metal Snake93/17壬午Water Horse103/18癸未Water Goat113/19甲申Wood Monkey3/20乙酉Wood Rooster133/21丙戌Fire Dog143/22丁亥Fire Pig153/23戊子Earth Rat163/24己丑Earth Ox173/25庚寅Metal Tiger183/26辛卯Metal Rabbit3/27壬辰Water DragonGrain Rain203/28癸巳Water Snake213/29甲午Wood Horse223/30乙未Wood Goat234/1丙申Fire MonkeyLunar month opens244/2丁酉Fire Rooster254/3戊戌Earth Dog4/4己亥Earth Pig274/5庚子Metal Rat284/6辛丑Metal Ox294/7壬寅Water Tiger304/8癸卯Water RabbitThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2020 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 3/9
Full moon
Lunar 3/16
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
New moon
Lunar 4/1
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 April 2020
- 23 April 2020 — lunar 2020 month 3 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2020 month 4 opens.
- 4 April 2020 at 15:38:09 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 19 April 2020 at 22:45:29 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 7 April 2020 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 23 April 2020 — the first day of lunar month 4.
- 4 April 2020 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.