Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1986
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
1986 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 1986
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Feb 1986
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1986
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Apr 1986
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
May 1986
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jun 1986
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1986
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1986
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1986
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1986
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:35
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 19:53
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Nov 1986
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:37
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1986
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · 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 1986
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:41
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:53
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:11
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:18
Feb 1986
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:05
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:16
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:04
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:18
Mar 1986
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:57
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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.