Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2003
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
2003 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 2003
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwadashi
Feb 2003
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mar 2003
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2003
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
May 2003
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2003
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Jul 2003
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi
Aug 2003
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 2003
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2003
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:10
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:19
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:31
Nov 2003
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 2003
Guruvaar (Thu) · 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 2003
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:47
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:40
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:59
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:58
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Feb 2003
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:11
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:57
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Mar 2003
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:30
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:31
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:56
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
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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.