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April 2042 has 30 days, spanning lunar months leap 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 4 Apr. Full moon: 5 Apr. New moon: 20 Apr. Pure Brightness: 4 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 2042 leap month 2 into 2042 month 3 · Yang Water Dog 壬戌 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Wood Dragon · 甲辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 4 at 23:40:41 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 06:39:49 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 19 April 2042 closes lunar 2042 leap month 2; lunar 2042 month 3 begins 20 April 2042.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2042
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 2 (29 days).
April 2042 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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12/11己巳Earth Snake22/12庚午Metal Horse32/13辛未Metal Goat2/14壬申Water MonkeyPure Brightness52/15癸酉Water RoosterLunar mid-month2/16甲戌Wood Dog72/17乙亥Wood Pig82/18丙子Fire Rat92/19丁丑Fire Ox102/20戊寅Earth Tiger112/21己卯Earth Rabbit122/22庚辰Metal Dragon2/23辛巳Metal Snake142/24壬午Water Horse152/25癸未Water Goat162/26甲申Wood Monkey172/27乙酉Wood Rooster182/28丙戌Fire Dog192/29丁亥Fire Pig3/1戊子Earth RatLunar month opensGrain Rain213/2己丑Earth Ox223/3庚寅Metal Tiger233/4辛卯Metal Rabbit243/5壬辰Water Dragon253/6癸巳Water Snake263/7甲午Wood Horse3/8乙未Wood Goat283/9丙申Fire Monkey293/10丁酉Fire Rooster303/11戊戌Earth DogThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2042 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 2/15
Last quarter
Lunar leap 2/23
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
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 2042
- 20 April 2042 — lunar 2042 leap month 2 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 2042 month 3 opens.
- 4 April 2042 at 23:40:41 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 2042 at 06:39:49 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 5 April 2042 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 2, which falls near the full moon.
- 20 April 2042 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 4 April 2042 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.