Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2013
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
2013 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 2013
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Feb 2013
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2013
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2013
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
May 2013
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2013
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2013
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2013
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2013
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2013
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:21
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:02
Nov 2013
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:35
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:38
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2013
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · 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 2013
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:17
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:54
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:16
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:03
Feb 2013
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:06
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:17
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:58
Mar 2013
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:57
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · 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.