Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2011
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
2011 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 2011
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Feb 2011
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2011
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2011
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
May 2011
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2011
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2011
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Dwitiya
Aug 2011
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Sep 2011
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 2011
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:17
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:32
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Nov 2011
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:33
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 2011
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
107 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2011
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:23
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:51
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:59
Feb 2011
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:12
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:23
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:47
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mar 2011
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:21
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:15
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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.