Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1915
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
1915 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 1915
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Feb 1915
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1915
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Apr 1915
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
May 1915
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Jun 1915
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1915
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1915
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1915
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1915
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:07
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:30
Nov 1915
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:33
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:41
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1915
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
104 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1915
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:20
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:24
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:44
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:57
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:12
Feb 1915
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:08
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:19
Mar 1915
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:02
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:23
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
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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.