Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1968
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
1968 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 1968
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1968
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1968
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:29
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1968
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1968
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1968
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1968
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1968
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1968
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Oct 1968
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:57
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:06
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:46
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:30
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Nov 1968
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
103 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1968
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:44
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:21
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:33
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:56
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1968
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:08
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:17
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:29
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:18
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 1968
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:08
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:37
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
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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.