Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2042
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
2042 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 2042
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Navami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Shashthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Feb 2042
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2042
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Apr 2042
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2042
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jun 2042
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2042
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Aug 2042
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 2042
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2042
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:16
Nov 2042
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:36
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:29
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:47
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2042
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
107 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2042
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:31
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:22
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Feb 2042
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:01
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:20
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:52
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:14
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2042
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:23
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:02
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:26
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · 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.