Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2016
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
2016 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 2016
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi
Feb 2016
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2016
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2016
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
May 2016
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2016
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2016
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2016
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2016
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2016
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:14
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:46
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Nov 2016
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:37
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2016
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · 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 2016
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:52
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:19
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:54
Feb 2016
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:04
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:14
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:00
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:28
Mar 2016
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla 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.