Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2050
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
2050 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 2050
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 2050
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mar 2050
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 2050
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2050
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Jun 2050
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 2050
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2050
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2050
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2050
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dashami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:50
Nov 2050
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:31
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:28
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:48
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2050
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 2050
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:38
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:13
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:35
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:51
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2050
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:03
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:47
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:07
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2050
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:24
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:18
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:52
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:33
Mangalvaar (Tue) · 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.