Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1962
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
1962 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 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Feb 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1962
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
May 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1962
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1962
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:07
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Tritiya · Moonrise 20:23 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:41
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Nov 1962
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:34
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
105 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1962
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:35
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:04
Feb 1962
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:02
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:12
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:07
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:33
Mar 1962
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:37
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:08
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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.