Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1903
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
1903 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 1903
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1903
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1903
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:13
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1903
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1903
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1903
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jul 1903
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1903
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1903
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Oct 1903
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:41
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:31
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:33
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:13
Nov 1903
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
102 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1903
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:27
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:28
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1903
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:52
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:31
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 1903
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:12
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:11
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:07
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
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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.