Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1914
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
1914 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 1914
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Feb 1914
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1914
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1914
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1914
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jun 1914
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1914
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1914
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1914
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Oct 1914
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:57
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:09
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:50
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:27
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Nov 1914
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
105 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1914
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:50
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:13
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:53
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1914
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:06
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:46
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:16
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:16
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 1914
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:48
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:16
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
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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.