Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1988
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
1988 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 1988
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1988
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1988
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Apr 1988
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1988
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1988
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1988
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1988
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1988
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1988
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Saptami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:36
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:01
Nov 1988
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:31
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:44
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1988
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · 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 1988
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:35
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 16:48
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:28
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:47
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:59
Feb 1988
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:32
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:01
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mar 1988
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:21
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:10
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:47
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:30
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
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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.