Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2019
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.
44 festivals
2019 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 2019
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Feb 2019
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Saptami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2019
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Apr 2019
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
May 2019
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2019
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2019
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Aug 2019
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2019
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 2019
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:56
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:00
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:41
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Nov 2019
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:33
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 2019
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
106 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2019
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:49
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:06
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:31
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Feb 2019
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:01
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:58
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:23
Mar 2019
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
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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.