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How Many Days In Each Month
Here’s how you can remember the number of days in each month:
– January: 31 days
– February: 28 days in a common year and 29 days in a leap year
– March: 31 days
– April: 30 days
– May: 31 days
– June: 30 days
– July: 31 days
– August: 31 days
– September: 30 days
– October: 31 days
– November: 30 days
– December: 31 days
Here’s a traditional rhyme to help remember this:
“Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February, with twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine each leap year.”
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Here are the days in each month of the year:
- January: 31 days
- February: 28 days (29 days in a leap year)
- March: 31 days
- April: 30 days
- May: 31 days
- June: 30 days
- July: 31 days
- August: 31 days
- September: 30 days
- October: 31 days
- November: 30 days
- December: 31 days
Leap Year Explanation:
A leap year occurs every four years, adding an extra day to February to account for the fact that a year is actually about 365.25 days long. This keeps the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical year.
Knuckle Mnemonic:
A common way to remember the number of days in each month is by using the knuckle mnemonic. Start with your left hand:
- Count the knuckles and the spaces between them.
- Each knuckle represents a month with 31 days.
- Each space between knuckles represents a month with 30 days (except February).
Here’s how it works:
- Start with January on the first knuckle (31 days).
- The space after it is February (28 or 29 days).
- The next knuckle is March (31 days), and so on.
When you reach the last knuckle (July), move to the first knuckle of the other hand (August) and continue the pattern.