Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1945
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
1945 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 1945
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Feb 1945
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:19
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1945
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
May 1945
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1945
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1945
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1945
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1945
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1945
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 19:10
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:30
Nov 1945
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 07:40
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1945
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · 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 1945
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:11
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:44
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:55
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 19:03
Feb 1945
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:40
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:07
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:18
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:46
Mar 1945
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 23:08
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:28
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · 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.