Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1943
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
1943 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 1943
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Feb 1943
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1943
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:32
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1943
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
May 1943
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1943
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1943
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1943
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1943
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1943
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 19:06
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:54
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:40
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Nov 1943
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 07:34
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1943
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · 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 1943
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:37
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:49
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:52
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:23
Feb 1943
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:01
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:12
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 19:25
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 23:05
Mar 1943
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:22
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:31
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 19:06
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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.