Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1994
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
1994 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 1994
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 1994
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mar 1994
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1994
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
May 1994
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1994
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jul 1994
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1994
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1994
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1994
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:37
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:21
Nov 1994
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:35
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:38
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1994
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · 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 1994
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:11
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:54
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:55
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:10
Feb 1994
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:06
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:18
Mar 1994
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:08
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla 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.