Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1950
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
1950 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 1950
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1950
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1950
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1950
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Dwadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1950
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1950
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Jul 1950
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1950
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1950
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1950
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:16
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:31
Nov 1950
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:31
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:43
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1950
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
106 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1950
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:31
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:48
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:47
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:59
Feb 1950
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:24
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:45
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:10
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mar 1950
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:21
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:23
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:30
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · 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.