Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2012
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
2012 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 2012
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 2012
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 2012
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 2012
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2012
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Jun 2012
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2012
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2012
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2012
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2012
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:15
Nov 2012
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:57
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:28
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:47
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2012
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
109 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2012
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:39
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:53
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:57
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:51
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2012
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:41
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:54
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:14
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2012
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:32
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:52
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
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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.