Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1920
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
1920 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 1920
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1920
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1920
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1920
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1920
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1920
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1920
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Aug 1920
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1920
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1920
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:31
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:09
Nov 1920
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:30
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:45
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1920
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
105 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1920
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:17
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:35
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 1920
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:00
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:13
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:12
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:12
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1920
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:00
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:49
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Shukravaar (Fri) · 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.