Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1961
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
1961 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 1961
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Dwadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Feb 1961
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1961
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Apr 1961
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1961
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1961
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1961
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1961
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1961
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:40
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:39
Nov 1961
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:32
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:43
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1961
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
106 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1961
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:18
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:32
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:46
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:58
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:44
Feb 1961
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:06
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:10
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Mar 1961
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:15
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:52
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla 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.