Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1916
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
1916 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 1916
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 1916
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1916
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1916
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
May 1916
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1916
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Jul 1916
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Aug 1916
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Sep 1916
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1916
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:42
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:34
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Nov 1916
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:33
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 1916
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
110 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1916
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:47
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:52
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:37
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Feb 1916
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:59
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:11
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:37
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:29
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mar 1916
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · 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.