In lunar calendars, a lunar month is the time between two successive syzygies of the same type: new moons or full moons. The precise definition varies...

English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine...

is a lunisolar calendar dating from the Han dynasty that combines solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes. While the...

The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53...

A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual...

waxing crescent, waxing gibbous, waning gibbous, and waning crescent. A lunar month is the time between successive recurrences of the same phase: due to...

adjustment of lunar cycles in every three years, but differ in their relative emphasis to moon cycle or the sun cycle and the names of months and when they...

the Byzantines, the lunar calendar continued to be used as the liturgical year of various cults. The lunar calendar divided the month into four weeks, reflecting...

moon. As 12 such months comprise a total of just 354 days, an extra lunar month is added every 2 or 3 years so that the long-term average year length...

Lunisolar calendars combine lunar and solar calendars for a nominal year of 12 months. An extra day or an extra 30-day month is intercalated at irregular...

lunisolar calendar), there are twelve years of 12 lunar months and seven years of 13 lunar months. In the Babylonian and Hebrew lunisolar calendars,...

the Moon have synchronized the Moon's orbital period (lunar month) with its rotation period (lunar day) at 29.5 Earth days, causing the same side of the...

Athenian calendar is the lunisolar calendar beginning in midsummer with the lunar month of Hekatombaion, in use in ancient Attica, the ancestral territory of...

of the month according to whether the start of the month is reckoned from the appearance of the new moon or from the conjunction. A tabular lunar calendar...

to complete one synodic orbit around Earth, a synodic lunar month, returning to the same lunar phase. The synodic period is about 29+1⁄2 Earth days, which...

(February・First lunar month) Mid-spring: 6 March – 4 April (March・Second lunar month) Late spring: 5 April – 5 May (April・Third lunar month) People have...

neither a whole number of days nor a whole number of lunar months; neither does the lunar month have a whole number of days: in each case there are fractions...

The Guru Nanak was born on the Full Moon (Pooranmashi) of the Indian Lunar Month Kartik. The Sikhs have been celebrating Guru Nanak's Gurpurab around...

(lunar) Islamic calendar and the (lunisolar) Jewish calendar that originated in the Middle East. The determination of the first month of a new lunar or...

A lunar deity or moon deity is a deity who represents the Moon, or an aspect of it. These deities can have a variety of functions and traditions depending...

Indian states and Nepal. It is a solar calendar, using twelve to thirteen lunar months each solar sidereal years. The year count of the Vikram Samvat calendar...

embolismic, or leap month. Their months are based on the regular cycle of the Moon's phases. So lunisolar calendars are lunar calendars with – in contrast...

lunisolar calendar, each year with twelve lunar months. An intercalary month is inserted before each 2.5 years. The lunar phase is tracked with exceptional precision...

day') is the eleventh lunar day (tithi) of the waxing (Shukla Pakṣa) and waning (Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa) lunar cycles in a Vedic calendar month. Ekadashi is popularly...

the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights). In astronomy, a lunar fortnight is half a lunar synodic month, which is equivalent to the mean period between a full...

calendar is a lunar one, where each month begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The Islamic year consists of 12 lunar cycles, and consequently...

advance requires a correlation between the lunar months and the solar year, while also accounting for the month, date, and weekday of the Julian or Gregorian...

unlike the months of the Hindu solar calendars. Magha is a winter (Shishira Ritu) month. The lunar month of Magha overlaps with the solar month of Makara...

holidays in Korea, along with Chuseok. Seollal is New Year’s Day on the lunar calendar. The name originates from the word seol, which means unfamiliar...

festival that is celebrated on purnima (full moon day), the 15th day of the lunar month Kartika. It falls on November or December of the Gregorian calendar and...