Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2017
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
2017 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 2017
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 2017
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2017
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2017
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2017
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2017
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 2017
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2017
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 2017
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Oct 2017
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:02
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:58
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:29
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Nov 2017
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
104 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2017
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:42
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:47
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:49
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:55
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2017
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:07
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:26
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:18
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 2017
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:18
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:54
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
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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.