Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2004
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
2004 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 2004
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 2004
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2004
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Apr 2004
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2004
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 2004
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2004
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Aug 2004
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 2004
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2004
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:46
Nov 2004
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:28
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:29
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:45
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2004
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 2004
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:17
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:11
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:50
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2004
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:02
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:03
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:04
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:13
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2004
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:51
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:02
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
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.