Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1959
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
1959 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 1959
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi
Feb 1959
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1959
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1959
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
May 1959
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1959
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1959
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1959
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1959
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1959
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:47
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:25
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Nov 1959
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:36
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1959
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
107 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1959
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:39
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:52
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:38
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:40
Feb 1959
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:24
Mar 1959
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:11
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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.