Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1966
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
1966 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 1966
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1966
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1966
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1966
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1966
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1966
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1966
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Aug 1966
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1966
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1966
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:41
Nov 1966
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:23
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:29
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:46
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1966
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · 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 1966
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:46
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:20
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:49
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1966
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:43
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:18
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:13
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1966
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:49
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:08
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
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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.