Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2010
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
2010 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 2010
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Feb 2010
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:20
Mar 2010
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Apr 2010
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
May 2010
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2010
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2010
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2010
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 2010
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2010
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:03
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:51
Nov 2010
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:33
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:40
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2010
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
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 2010
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:47
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:44
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:57
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:14
Feb 2010
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:38
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:08
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:07
Mar 2010
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:33
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla 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.