Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1990
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
1990 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 1990
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Feb 1990
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1990
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 1990
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1990
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1990
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1990
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 1990
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1990
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Oct 1990
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:44
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Tritiya · Moonrise 19:53 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:49
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:28
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Nov 1990
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · 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 1990
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:41
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:53
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:56
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:54
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1990
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:05
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:45
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:32
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:17
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 1990
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:28
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:07
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:35
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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.