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February 2021 has 28 days, spanning lunar months 12 / 1. Lunar New Year's Eve: 11 Feb. Chinese New Year: 12 Feb. Lantern Festival: 26 Feb. New moon: 12 Feb. Full moon: 27 Feb. Beginning of Spring: 3 Feb. Rain Water: 18 Feb.
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Lunar 2020 month 12 into 2021 month 1 · Yin Metal Ox 辛丑 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Tiger · 庚寅
- Solar terms
- Beginning of Spring · 3 at 22:58:48 UTC+8; Rain Water · 18 at 18:43:58 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 11 February 2021 closes lunar 2020 month 12; lunar 2021 month 1 begins 12 February 2021.
Lunar-year structure
Two lunar years meet here
Lunar 2020
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 4 (29 days).
Lunar 2021
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
February 2021 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 2021 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/9
Full moon
Lunar 1/16
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 February 2021
- 12 February 2021 — lunar 2020 month 12 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2021 month 1 opens.
- 3 February 2021 at 22:58:48 UTC+8 — Beginning of Spring, 立春 Lìchūn, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 18 February 2021 at 18:43:58 UTC+8 — Rain Water, 雨水 Yǔshuǐ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 12 February 2021 — the first day of lunar month 1.
- 26 February 2021 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 1, which falls near the full moon.
- 11 February 2021 — Lunar New Year's Eve, lunar 12/30. The last day of the twelfth lunar month, which can be day 29 or day 30.
- 12 February 2021 — Chinese New Year, lunar 1/1. The first day of the first lunar month and the opening of a new lunar year.
- 26 February 2021 — Lantern Festival, lunar 1/15. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, near the first full moon of the new year.