Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1982
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
1982 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 1982
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Shashthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Feb 1982
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1982
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1982
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Shashthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1982
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1982
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1982
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1982
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1982
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1982
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Nov 1982
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:46
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:03
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:28
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:49
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 1982
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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 1982
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:41
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:16
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:34
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:52
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1982
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:04
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:11
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:11
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 1982
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:00
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:48
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
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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.