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August 2042 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 6 / 7. Qixi: 22 Aug. Ghost Festival: 30 Aug. Full moon: 2 Aug. New moon: 16 Aug. Full moon: 31 Aug. Beginning of Autumn: 7 Aug. End of Heat: 23 Aug.
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Lunar 2042 month 6 into 2042 month 7 · Yang Water Dog 壬戌 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申
- Solar terms
- Beginning of Autumn · 7 at 16:38:50 UTC+8; End of Heat · 23 at 07:18:09 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 15 August 2042 closes lunar 2042 month 6; lunar 2042 month 7 begins 16 August 2042.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 2042
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 2 (29 days).
August 2042 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 2042 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 6/17
Last quarter
Lunar 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
Full moon
Lunar 7/16
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 August 2042
- 16 August 2042 — lunar 2042 month 6 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 2042 month 7 opens.
- 7 August 2042 at 16:38:50 UTC+8 — Beginning of Autumn, 立秋 Lìqiū, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 23 August 2042 at 07:18:09 UTC+8 — End of Heat, 处暑 Chǔshǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 16 August 2042 — the first day of lunar month 7.
- 30 August 2042 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 7, which falls near the full moon.
- 22 August 2042 — Qixi, lunar 7/7. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the double-seventh.
- 30 August 2042 — Ghost Festival, lunar 7/15. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.