Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2036
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
2036 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 2036
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 2036
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mar 2036
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 2036
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwadashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2036
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2036
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 2036
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2036
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Sep 2036
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Oct 2036
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:17
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:53
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:29
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Nov 2036
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · 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 2036
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:43
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:47
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:08
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:55
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Feb 2036
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:07
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:55
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:17
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Mar 2036
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:27
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:32
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:33
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:35
Budhvaar (Wed) · 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.