Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1976
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
1976 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 1976
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1976
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1976
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:30
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1976
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
May 1976
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1976
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1976
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1976
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Sep 1976
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Oct 1976
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:00
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:37
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:45
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:30
Nov 1976
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 1976
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
106 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1976
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:46
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:10
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:22
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:57
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1976
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:09
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:59
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:23
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:19
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 1976
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:29
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:56
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:18
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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.