2020 in summary

What the checked records hold for 2020: how many moon phase, new moon and season records there are, the first and last new moon dates of the year, and the Wikidata Chinese New Year dates recorded for it.

Year 2020
Moon phase records 50
New moon records 12
Full moon records 13
First quarter records 13
Last quarter records 12
First new moon 2020-01-24
Last new moon 2020-12-14
New moon dates (UTC) 2020-01-24,2020-02-23,2020-03-24,2020-04-23,2020-05-22,2020-06-21,2020-07-20,2020-08-19,2020-09-17,2020-10-16,2020-11-15,2020-12-14
New moon dates (UTC+8) 2020-01-25,2020-02-23,2020-03-24,2020-04-23,2020-05-23,2020-06-21,2020-07-21,2020-08-19,2020-09-17,2020-10-17,2020-11-15,2020-12-15
Season records 6
Equinox records 2
Solstice records 2
Perihelion and aphelion records 2
Moon phase source file usno_phases_2020.json
Season source file usno_seasons_2020.json
Wikidata Chinese New Year dates not available
New moons matching a Wikidata date 0

Source and period

Figures on this page are read from these source records: U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications Department - Dates of Primary Phases of the Moon, 2020 (API record; phase times in Universal Time); U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications Department - Earth's Seasons: Equinoxes, Solstices, Perihelion and Aphelion, 2020 (API record; times in Universal Time). The period covered is the 2020 calendar year. Records fetched 2026-10-31.

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All sources and credits

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