Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2001
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
2001 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 2001
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 2001
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2001
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 2001
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Saptami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2001
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2001
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 2001
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2001
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 2001
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2001
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Nov 2001
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:55
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:53
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:28
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:48
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2001
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · 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 2001
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:41
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:13
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:47
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:52
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2001
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:04
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:14
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:36
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2001
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:07
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:22
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
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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.