Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1928
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
1928 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 1928
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1928
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1928
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1928
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Navami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1928
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1928
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1928
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Aug 1928
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1928
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1928
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturdashi · Moonrise 17:26 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Nov 1928
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:37
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:30
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:46
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1928
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
106 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1928
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:44
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:48
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:50
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1928
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:01
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:33
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:25
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:13
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 1928
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:20
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:55
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
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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.