Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1931
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
1931 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 1931
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1931
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1931
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1931
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Dwadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1931
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jun 1931
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Jul 1931
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1931
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1931
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1931
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:27
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:02
Nov 1931
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:31
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:43
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1931
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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 1931
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:17
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:46
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 1931
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:00
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:54
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:11
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1931
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:21
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:23
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:47
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:30
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · 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.