Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2009
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
2009 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 2009
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Feb 2009
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 2009
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 2009
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2009
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2009
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 2009
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2009
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Sep 2009
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Oct 2009
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:50
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:41
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:50
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:28
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Nov 2009
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
104 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2009
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:01
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:26
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:53
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2009
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:05
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:57
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:10
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:16
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 2009
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:51
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:53
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:35
Budhvaar (Wed) · 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.