Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1940
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
1940 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 1940
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Shashthi
Feb 1940
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1940
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1940
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
May 1940
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1940
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1940
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1940
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1940
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1940
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:56
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:39
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Nov 1940
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:36
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1940
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
105 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1940
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:39
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:52
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:51
Feb 1940
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:04
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:22
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:43
Mar 1940
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
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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.