Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2023
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
2023 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 2023
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 2023
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2023
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Apr 2023
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2023
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 2023
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2023
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Aug 2023
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 2023
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2023
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:19
Nov 2023
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:14
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:29
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:46
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2023
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 2023
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 16:59
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:34
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:50
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2023
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:02
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:39
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:18
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:13
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2023
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:18
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:02
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
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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.