Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1999
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
1999 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 1999
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Feb 1999
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1999
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:21
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Apr 1999
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 1999
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1999
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1999
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1999
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1999
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:41
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:56
Nov 1999
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:32
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:42
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1999
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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 1999
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:02
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:03
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:46
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:58
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:46
Feb 1999
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:36
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:10
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Mar 1999
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:29
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:04
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:29
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · 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.