Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2020
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
2020 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 2020
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Feb 2020
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2020
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 2020
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2020
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2020
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 2020
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Dwadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2020
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 2020
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2020
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:41
Nov 2020
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:11
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:28
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:48
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2020
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
109 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2020
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:16
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:39
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:52
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2020
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:05
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:12
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:36
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:15
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2020
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:06
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:36
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
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.