Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1906
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
1906 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 1906
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1906
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1906
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1906
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Shashthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1906
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1906
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1906
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1906
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1906
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Oct 1906
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:18
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:39
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:51
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:26
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Nov 1906
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 1906
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:32
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:26
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:52
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1906
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:05
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:14
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1906
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:01
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:21
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
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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.