Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1974
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
1974 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 1974
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1974
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1974
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1974
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Saptami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1974
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1974
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1974
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1974
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1974
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Oct 1974
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:42
Nov 1974
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:19
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:29
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:47
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1974
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
104 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1974
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:39
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:38
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:51
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1974
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:55
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:14
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1974
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:31
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:39
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
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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.