Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2056
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
2056 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 2056
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 2056
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2056
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:21 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Navami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Apr 2056
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
May 2056
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2056
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jul 2056
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2056
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 2056
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2056
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ashtami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:56
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:22
Nov 2056
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:32
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwitiya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:42
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2056
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · 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 2056
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:13
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:11
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:58
Feb 2056
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:54
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:11
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:10
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:21
Mar 2056
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:08
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:29
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
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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.