Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1958
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
1958 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 1958
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1958
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1958
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1958
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1958
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1958
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1958
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Aug 1958
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1958
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1958
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:34
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:23
Nov 1958
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:31
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:44
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1958
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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 1958
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:23
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:39
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 1958
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:01
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:15
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:34
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:12
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1958
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:05
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:32
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
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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.