Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2006
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
2006 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 2006
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 2006
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2006
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:29
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 2006
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2006
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2006
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 2006
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Saptami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2006
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 2006
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Oct 2006
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:04
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:11
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:46
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:30
Nov 2006
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 2006
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
103 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2006
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:44
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:37
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:18
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:56
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 2006
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:07
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:20
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:51
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:19
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 2006
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:01
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:36
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
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.