Chinese lunar calendar · month archive
Current month’s calendar & events →January 2022 Chinese lunar calendar
January 2022 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 11 / 12. Laba Festival: 10 Jan. Lunar New Year's Eve: 31 Jan. New moon: 3 Jan. Full moon: 18 Jan. Minor Cold: 5 Jan. Major Cold: 20 Jan.
Choose “Save as PDF” in your browser’s print destination to keep this calendar.
Lunar 2021 month 11 into 2021 month 12 · Yin Metal Ox 辛丑 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yin Metal Ox · 辛丑
- Solar terms
- Minor Cold · 5 at 17:14:04 UTC+8; Major Cold · 20 at 10:39:06 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 2 January 2022 closes lunar 2021 month 11; lunar 2021 month 12 begins 3 January 2022.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2021
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
January 2022 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
111/29甲寅Wood Tiger11/30乙卯Wood Rabbit312/1丙辰Fire DragonLunar month opens412/2丁巳Fire Snake512/3戊午Earth HorseMinor Cold612/4己未Earth Goat712/5庚申Metal Monkey812/6辛酉Metal Rooster12/7壬戌Water Dog12/8癸亥Water Pig1112/9甲子Wood Rat1212/10乙丑Wood Ox1312/11丙寅Fire Tiger1412/12丁卯Fire Rabbit1512/13戊辰Earth Dragon12/14己巳Earth Snake1712/15庚午Metal HorseLunar mid-month1812/16辛未Metal Goat1912/17壬申Water Monkey2012/18癸酉Water RoosterMajor Cold2112/19甲戌Wood Dog2212/20乙亥Wood Pig12/21丙子Fire Rat2412/22丁丑Fire Ox2512/23戊寅Earth Tiger2612/24己卯Earth Rabbit2712/25庚辰Metal Dragon2812/26辛巳Metal Snake2912/27壬午Water Horse12/28癸未Water Goat12/29甲申Wood MonkeyThe Moon this month · UTC+8
January 2022 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 12/1
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
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 January 2022
- 3 January 2022 — lunar 2021 month 11 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2021 month 12 opens.
- 5 January 2022 at 17:14:04 UTC+8 — Minor Cold, 小寒 Xiǎohán, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 January 2022 at 10:39:06 UTC+8 — Major Cold, 大寒 Dàhán, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 3 January 2022 — the first day of lunar month 12.
- 17 January 2022 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 12, which falls near the full moon.
- 10 January 2022 — Laba Festival, lunar 12/8. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, in the run-up to the new year.
- 31 January 2022 — Lunar New Year's Eve, lunar 12/29. The last day of the twelfth lunar month, which can be day 29 or day 30.