Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1965
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
1965 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 1965
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 1965
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mar 1965
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1965
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
May 1965
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1965
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jul 1965
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Aug 1965
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1965
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1965
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:04
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:31
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:43
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:31
Nov 1965
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 1965
Shanivaar (Sat) · 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 1965
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:46
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:34
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:59
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Feb 1965
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:10
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:48
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mar 1965
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:21
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:29
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:28
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:28
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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.