Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1973
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
1973 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 1973
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Feb 1973
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1973
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1973
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
May 1973
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1973
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Jul 1973
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Dwitiya
Aug 1973
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1973
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1973
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:48
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:13
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Nov 1973
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:33
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 1973
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
107 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1973
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:19
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:35
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Feb 1973
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:00
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:11
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:17
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:11
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mar 1973
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:03
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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.