Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1957
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
1957 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 1957
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1957
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1957
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:30
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Apr 1957
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
May 1957
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1957
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1957
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1957
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Sep 1957
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1957
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:33
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:00
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:45
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:30
Nov 1957
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 1957
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
104 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1957
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:45
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:07
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:30
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:57
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1957
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:59
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:24
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1957
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:29
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:57
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:10
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
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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.