Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1917
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
1917 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 1917
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Shashthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1917
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1917
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1917
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Saptami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1917
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Jun 1917
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1917
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1917
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1917
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1917
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:29
Nov 1917
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:06
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:28
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:47
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1917
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
107 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1917
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:45
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:20
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:51
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1917
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:29
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:55
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1917
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:03
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:43
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
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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.