Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1978
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
1978 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 1978
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1978
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1978
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1978
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
May 1978
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1978
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1978
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1978
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1978
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1978
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:06
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:01
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Nov 1978
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:36
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1978
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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 1978
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:51
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:05
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:41
Feb 1978
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:45
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:29
Mar 1978
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
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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.