Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1995
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
1995 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 1995
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1995
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1995
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:30
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Apr 1995
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
May 1995
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jun 1995
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 1995
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Shashthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Aug 1995
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 1995
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 1995
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:46
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:30
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:44
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:31
Nov 1995
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 1995
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
105 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1995
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:45
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:32
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:18
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:58
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 1995
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:10
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:11
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:12
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:19
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 1995
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:29
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:57
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:09
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna 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.