Lunar Calendar 2016


Our Lunar Calendar 2016 includes the dates, names, and times of all new moons, first quarter moons, full moons and last quarter moons occurring in 2016. The 2016 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 2016 Times

The 2016 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 2016 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 2016 Dates

The 2016 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 2016.

YearNew MoonFirst Quarter MoonFull MoonLast Quarter Moon
2016  Jan 5 04:54Jan 13 09:47
2016Jan 20 13:14Jan 27 04:49Feb 3 23:09Feb 12 03:50
2016Feb 18 23:47Feb 25 17:14Mar 5 18:06Mar 13 17:48
2016Mar 20 09:36Mar 27 07:43Apr 4 12:06Apr 12 03:44
2016Apr 18 18:57Apr 25 23:55May 4 03:42May 11 10:36
2016May 18 04:13May 25 17:19Jun 2 16:19Jun 9 15:42
2016Jun 16 14:05Jun 24 11:03Jul 2 02:20Jul 8 20:24
2016Jul 16 01:25Jul 24 04:05Jul 31 10:43Aug 7 02:03
2016Aug 14 14:54Aug 22 19:31Aug 29 18:36Sep 5 09:54
2016Sep 13 06:42Sep 21 08:59Sep 28 02:51Oct 4 21:07
2016Oct 13 00:06Oct 20 20:32Oct 27 12:05Nov 3 12:24
2016Nov 11 17:48Nov 19 06:28Nov 25 22:44Dec 3 07:41
2016Dec 11 10:30Dec 18 15:15Dec 25 11:12 

Popular Full Moon Calendars

Some popular full moon calendars, in addition to the 2016 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 2016 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.