Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1972
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
1972 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 1972
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Feb 1972
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Mar 1972
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Apr 1972
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
May 1972
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1972
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1972
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1972
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Saptami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Sep 1972
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1972
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:19
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Tritiya · Moonrise 19:58 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Nov 1972
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:33
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:41
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 1972
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
102 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1972
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:11
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:45
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:56
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:57
Feb 1972
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:42
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:09
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:18
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:39
Mar 1972
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:14
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla 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.