Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2015
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
2015 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 2015
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 2015
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2015
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Apr 2015
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2015
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 2015
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Jul 2015
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2015
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 2015
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2015
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:47
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Tritiya · Moonrise 20:21 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Nov 2015
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:30
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:45
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 2015
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
105 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2015
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:59
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:28
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 2015
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:00
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:39
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:55
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:12
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2015
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:09
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:28
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
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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.