Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2059
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
2059 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 2059
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Feb 2059
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Saptami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2059
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:37
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2059
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Navami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
May 2059
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2059
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2059
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2059
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Tritiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2059
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2059
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:04
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:16
Nov 2059
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:34
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:40
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2059
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
105 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2059
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:36
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:44
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:55
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:39
Feb 2059
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:15
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:07
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:18
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:18
Mar 2059
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:50
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:28
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:36
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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.