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October 2020 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 8 / 9. Mid-Autumn Festival: 1 Oct. Double Ninth Festival: 25 Oct. Full moon: 2 Oct. New moon: 17 Oct. Full moon: 31 Oct. Cold Dew: 8 Oct. Frost's Descent: 23 Oct.
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Lunar 2020 month 8 into 2020 month 9 · Yang Metal Rat 庚子 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Fire Dog · 丙戌
- Solar terms
- Cold Dew · 8 at 03:55:16 UTC+8; Frost's Descent · 23 at 06:59:34 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 16 October 2020 closes lunar 2020 month 8; lunar 2020 month 9 begins 17 October 2020.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2020
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 4 (29 days).
October 2020 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
October 2020 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 8/16
Last quarter
Lunar 8/24
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/7
Full moon
Lunar 9/15
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 October 2020
- 17 October 2020 — lunar 2020 month 8 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2020 month 9 opens.
- 8 October 2020 at 03:55:16 UTC+8 — Cold Dew, 寒露 Hánlù, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 23 October 2020 at 06:59:34 UTC+8 — Frost's Descent, 霜降 Shuāngjiàng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 1 October 2020 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 8, which falls near the full moon.
- 17 October 2020 — the first day of lunar month 9.
- 31 October 2020 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 9, which falls near the full moon.
- 1 October 2020 — Mid-Autumn Festival, lunar 8/15. The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, near that month's full moon.
- 25 October 2020 — Double Ninth Festival, lunar 9/9. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the double-ninth.