Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1997
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
1997 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 1997
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi
Feb 1997
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 1997
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:35
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 1997
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
May 1997
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1997
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1997
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1997
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 1997
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1997
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:13
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:39
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Nov 1997
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:37
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1997
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
108 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1997
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:51
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:48
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:13
Feb 1997
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:18
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:45
Mar 1997
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
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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.