Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1975
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
1975 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 1975
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Feb 1975
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Saptami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mar 1975
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1975
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
May 1975
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1975
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1975
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1975
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1975
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1975
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:45
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:43
Nov 1975
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:35
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:38
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1975
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
105 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1975
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:20
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:54
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:49
Feb 1975
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:06
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:17
Mar 1975
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:10
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:35
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:40
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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.