Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2002
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
2002 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 2002
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Feb 2002
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2002
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:37
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2002
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
May 2002
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2002
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2002
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2002
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2002
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2002
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:00
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:23
Nov 2002
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:34
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:40
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2002
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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 2002
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:43
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:56
Feb 2002
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:53
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:07
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:18
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:22
Mar 2002
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:47
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
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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.