Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1983
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.
41 festivals
1983 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 1983
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Feb 1983
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 1983
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:37
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1983
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
May 1983
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1983
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1983
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1983
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1983
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1983
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:43
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:15
Nov 1983
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:34
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:39
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1983
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
103 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1983
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:55
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:43
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:56
Feb 1983
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:51
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:07
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:18
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:23
Mar 1983
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:35
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · 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.