Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1901
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
1901 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 1901
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Navami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1901
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1901
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:08
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1901
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1901
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1901
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1901
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Aug 1901
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1901
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1901
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:12
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:00
Nov 1901
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:16
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:30
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 1901
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
104 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1901
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:22
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 16:55
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:48
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:33
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 1901
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:45
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:40
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:16
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:57
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1901
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:07
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:16
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:45
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:16
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
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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.