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April 2022 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 1 Apr. Full moon: 17 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 2022 month 3 · Yang Water Tiger 壬寅 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Wood Dragon · 甲辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 03:20:14 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 10:24:18 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- Entirely inside lunar 2022 month 3.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2022
12 lunar months · 355 days · no leap month.
April 2022 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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13/1甲申Wood MonkeyLunar month opens23/2乙酉Wood Rooster3/3丙戌Fire Dog43/4丁亥Fire Pig3/5戊子Earth RatPure Brightness63/6己丑Earth Ox73/7庚寅Metal Tiger83/8辛卯Metal Rabbit93/9壬辰Water Dragon3/10癸巳Water Snake113/11甲午Wood Horse123/12乙未Wood Goat133/13丙申Fire Monkey143/14丁酉Fire Rooster153/15戊戌Earth DogLunar mid-month163/16己亥Earth Pig3/17庚子Metal Rat183/18辛丑Metal Ox193/19壬寅Water Tiger203/20癸卯Water RabbitGrain Rain213/21甲辰Wood Dragon223/22乙巳Wood Snake233/23丙午Fire Horse3/24丁未Fire Goat253/25戊申Earth Monkey263/26己酉Earth Rooster273/27庚戌Metal Dog283/28辛亥Metal Pig293/29壬子Water Rat303/30癸丑Water OxThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2022 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/9
Full moon
Lunar 3/17
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
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 April 2022
- No lunar month begins in April 2022 — it sits entirely inside lunar 2022 month 3, days 1 to 30.
- 5 April 2022 at 03:20:14 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2022 at 10:24:18 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 1 April 2022 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 15 April 2022 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 2022 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.