Lunar Calendar 2012


Our Lunar Calendar 2012 includes the dates, names, and times of all new moons, first quarter moons, full moons and last quarter moons occurring in 2012. The 2012 lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the moon phases. Lunar calendars have been used since ancient times. Evidence of lunar calendars dates back as far as 32,000 years ago. Some artifacts from the Ice Age include sticks, reindeer bones and mammoth tusks with marks that academic scholars believe depict the days between moon phases. The most common purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar.

Lunar Calendar 2012 Times

The 2012 lunar moon calendar dates are expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UT), or Greenwich Mean Time, the international basis for other time zones. If your local time zone is currently on Daylight Saving Time or Summer Time, please add one hour to the standard times listed in the full moon calendar tables. To create a lunar calendar 2012 based on times in your city, please use the Time Zone Converter. You may also simply subtract five (5) hours to get to U.S. Eastern Time.

Lunar Calendar 2012 Dates

The 2012 lunar calendar is expressed in Coordinated Universal Time and includes the dates, names, and times of all new moons, first quarter moons, full moons and last quarter moons occurring in 2012.

YearNew MoonFirst Quarter MoonFull MoonLast Quarter Moon
2012 Jan 1 06:15Jan 9 07:30Jan 16 09:08
2012Jan 23 7:39Jan 31 04:10Feb 7 21:54Feb 14 17:04
2012Feb 21 22:35Mar 1 01:22Mar 8 09:40Mar 15 01:25
2012Mar 22 14:37Mar 30 19:41Apr 6 19:19Apr 13 10:50
2012Apr 21 07:18Apr 29 09:58May 6 03:35May 12 21:47
2012May 20 23:47May 28 20:16Jun 4 11:12Jun 11 10:41
2012Jun 19 15:02Jun 27 03:30Jul 3 18:52Jul 11 01:48
2012Jul 19 04:24Jul 26 08:56Aug 2 03:27Aug 9 18:55
2012Aug 17 15:54Aug 24 13:54Aug 31 13:58Sep 8 13:15
2012Sep 16 02:11Sep 22 19:41Sep 30 03:19Oct 8 07:33
2012Oct 15 12:02Oct 22 03:32Oct 29 19:50Nov 7 00:36
2012Nov 13 22:08Nov 20 14:31Nov 28 14:46Dec 6 15:32
2012Dec 13 08:42Dec 20 05:19Dec 28 10:21 

Popular Full Moon Calendars

Some popular full moon calendars, in addition to the 2012 Lunar Calendar, include the following: Moon Calendar 2011, Moon Calendar 2012, Moon Calendar 2013, Moon Calendar 2014, Moon Calendar 2015, Moon Calendar 2016, Moon Calendar 2017, Moon Calendar 2018, Moon Calendar 2019, Moon Calendar 2020.

You can also check out our Full Moon Calendar, Lunar Calendar, Lunar Eclipse Calendar and Solar Eclipse Calendar!

Start and Length of the 2012 Lunar Calendar

Lunar calendars differ as to which day is the first day of the month. For some lunar calendars, such as the Chinese calendar, the first day of a month is the day when an astronomical new moon occurs in a particular time zone. For others, such as some Hindu calendars, each month begins on the day after the full moon or the new moon. Others were based in the past on the first sighting of a lunar crescent, such as the Hebrew calendar.The average length of the synodic month is 29.530589 days. This requires the length of a month to be alternately 29 and 30 days (termed respectively hollow and full). The tabular Islamic calendar’s 360-month cycle is equivalent to 24×15 months minus a correction of one day.