Chinese lunar calendar · month archive
Current month’s calendar & events →October 2040 Chinese lunar calendar
October 2040 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 8 / 9. Double Ninth Festival: 14 Oct. New moon: 6 Oct. Full moon: 20 Oct. Cold Dew: 8 Oct. Frost's Descent: 23 Oct.
Choose “Save as PDF” in your browser’s print destination to keep this calendar.
Lunar 2040 month 8 into 2040 month 9 · Yang Metal Monkey 庚申 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Fire Dog · 丙戌
- Solar terms
- Cold Dew · 8 at 00:05:34 UTC+8; Frost's Descent · 23 at 03:19:47 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 5 October 2040 closes lunar 2040 month 8; lunar 2040 month 9 begins 6 October 2040.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2040
12 lunar months · 355 days · no leap month.
October 2040 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
18/26壬戌Water Dog28/27癸亥Water Pig38/28甲子Wood Rat48/29乙丑Wood Ox58/30丙寅Fire Tiger69/1丁卯Fire RabbitLunar month opens9/2戊辰Earth Dragon89/3己巳Earth SnakeCold Dew99/4庚午Metal Horse109/5辛未Metal Goat119/6壬申Water Monkey129/7癸酉Water Rooster139/8甲戌Wood Dog9/9乙亥Wood Pig159/10丙子Fire Rat169/11丁丑Fire Ox179/12戊寅Earth Tiger189/13己卯Earth Rabbit199/14庚辰Metal Dragon209/15辛巳Metal SnakeLunar mid-month9/16壬午Water Horse229/17癸未Water Goat239/18甲申Wood MonkeyFrost's Descent249/19乙酉Wood Rooster259/20丙戌Fire Dog269/21丁亥Fire Pig279/22戊子Earth Rat9/23己丑Earth Ox299/24庚寅Metal Tiger309/25辛卯Metal Rabbit319/26壬辰Water DragonThe Moon this month · UTC+8
October 2040 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/8
Full moon
Lunar 9/15
Last quarter
Lunar 9/23
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 October 2040
- 6 October 2040 — lunar 2040 month 8 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2040 month 9 opens.
- 8 October 2040 at 00:05:34 UTC+8 — Cold Dew, 寒露 Hánlù, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 23 October 2040 at 03:19:47 UTC+8 — Frost's Descent, 霜降 Shuāngjiàng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 6 October 2040 — the first day of lunar month 9.
- 20 October 2040 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 9, which falls near the full moon.
- 14 October 2040 — Double Ninth Festival, lunar 9/9. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the double-ninth.