Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1900
Dates for Delhi, computed from the classical rules — a festival is a tithi in a month, and the day it lands on depends on your own sunrise.
Sunrise-based values for Delhi.
45 festivals
1900 at a glance
Grouped by month. Times shown are the ones the observance actually keys on — moonrise for Karva Chauth, sunset for the Pradosh observances.
Jan 1900
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Feb 1900
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1900
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1900
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
May 1900
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1900
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1900
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1900
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Saptami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1900
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1900
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:25
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Tritiya · Moonrise 19:52 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:30
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:16
Nov 1900
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 1900
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
103 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1900
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:30
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:16
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:49
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:43
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Feb 1900
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:54
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:52
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:19
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:05
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1900
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:13
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:23
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:58
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
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How these dates are worked out
Rules, not a list
Every date on this page is computed. Diwali is the Amavasya of Kartika; Holi is the Purnima of Phalguna; Ganesh Chaturthi is the Shukla Chaturthi of Bhadrapada. Give those rules a real ephemeris and the dates fall out — for any year, without anyone typing them in.
That matters because a typed-in list is right for one year and quietly wrong afterwards, with nothing to notice. It also cannot be right in two places at once: a festival falls on the civil day whose local sunrise its tithi spans, so the same rule gives different Gregorian dates in Delhi and in Auckland.
A few festivals are not dated from sunrise, because they are not observed at sunrise. Diwali is dated from the Pradosh window after sunset, when Lakshmi Puja is performed, and Maha Shivaratri from Nishita at midnight. We apply that only where we have checked the result against a published date.
Where traditions genuinely differ we say so instead of choosing for you — Diwali is Ashwin Amavasya in Gujarat and Kartika Amavasya in Delhi, the same night under two month names.