Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1979
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
1979 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 1979
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1979
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1979
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1979
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1979
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1979
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1979
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1979
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1979
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Oct 1979
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:57
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:58
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:47
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:29
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Nov 1979
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · 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 1979
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:57
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:23
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:55
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1979
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:06
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:35
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:55
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 1979
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:05
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:37
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:35
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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.