Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1981
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
1981 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 1981
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Feb 1981
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1981
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1981
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
May 1981
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1981
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1981
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1981
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1981
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1981
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:07
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Tritiya · Moonrise 20:21 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Nov 1981
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:34
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 1981
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
108 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1981
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:49
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:58
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:46
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Feb 1981
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:01
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:12
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:43
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:13
Mar 1981
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
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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.