Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2021
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
2021 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 2021
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Feb 2021
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2021
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:37
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2021
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
May 2021
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2021
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2021
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2021
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2021
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2021
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:49
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:06
Nov 2021
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:34
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:40
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2021
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · 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 2021
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:46
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:43
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:56
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:30
Feb 2021
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:43
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:07
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:18
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:24
Mar 2021
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:40
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · 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.