Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1956
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
1956 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 1956
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Feb 1956
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1956
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1956
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
May 1956
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1956
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1956
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1956
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1956
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1956
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:24
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:38
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Nov 1956
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:38
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1956
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
109 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1956
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:21
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:54
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:50
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:08
Feb 1956
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:06
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:17
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:46
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:50
Mar 1956
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · 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.