Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1996
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
1996 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 1996
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1996
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1996
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Apr 1996
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
May 1996
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 1996
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Jul 1996
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1996
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1996
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1996
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Navami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:41
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:48
Nov 1996
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:30
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:45
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1996
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
109 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1996
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:25
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:45
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 1996
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:01
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:55
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:29
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:12
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mar 1996
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:28
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:16
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · 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.