Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1953
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
1953 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 1953
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Feb 1953
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Mar 1953
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Apr 1953
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
May 1953
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1953
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1953
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1953
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1953
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1953
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:21
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:53
Nov 1953
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:33
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:41
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 1953
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
103 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1953
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:23
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:45
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:56
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:26
Feb 1953
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:52
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:09
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:19
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:04
Mar 1953
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:31
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:37
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:36
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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.