still 12 although every month contains 28 days.
The Chinese lunar calendar does not use months, rather divisions. The Chinese lunar calendar has 24 divisions in a year.
Twelve months of a lunar calendar total 354 days.
About five and a half calendar months and almost six lunar months.
A lunar calendar is based on the cycle of the moon (luna). A "lunar year" has about thirteen twenty-eight-day months.
No, not our months, but there is a calendar based on lunar months.
One year of a lunar calendar has 12 months, but it's about 11 days shorter than one year of the Gregorian calendar. A lunisolar calendar has months that are based on the cycle of the moon phases, but it also has leap years to keep the average length of a year close to the time it takes for the earth to orbit the sun. A regular year of a lunisolar calendar has 12 months, and a leap year has 13 months.
The Hebrew calendar is a lunar and solar calendar, meaning its months follow the moon's cycle around the world, whereas the secular calendar is only a solar calendar which follows the sun.
Our modern months have nothing to do with the moon's cycle, but there is a calendar based on lunar months.
In the Hebrew calendar, most years have twelve lunar months. Once every two or three years, a thirteenth month (the second Adar) is added in order to keep the lunar calendar in step with the solar year and its seasons.
Many peoples around the world use lunar months, and a few use a luni-solar calendar.
The classical Roman calendar was originally lunar, but later developed into a similar system to the modern one (in fact it was a precursor to the current Julian calendar) using months of either 30 or 31 days.
The Jewish calendar consists of twelve lunar months. It also keeps in step with the solar year, by adding a thirteenth lunar leap-month seven times every nineteen years. The Gregorian calendar, which sticks to the solar year, ignores the lunar months and does not attempt to keep in step with them.