Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1970
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
1970 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 1970
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Feb 1970
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1970
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1970
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
May 1970
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1970
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1970
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1970
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1970
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1970
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:22
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:16
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:39
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Nov 1970
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:36
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1970
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
109 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1970
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:39
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:50
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:40
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:18
Feb 1970
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:13
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:20
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:58
Mar 1970
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:01
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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.