Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1936
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
1936 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 1936
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Shashthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1936
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1936
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1936
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Saptami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1936
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1936
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1936
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1936
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1936
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1936
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:32
Nov 1936
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:26
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:29
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:48
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1936
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
108 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1936
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:21
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:09
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:51
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1936
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:05
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:37
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1936
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:39
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:11
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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.