Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2068
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
2068 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 2068
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dwadashi
Feb 2068
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Saptami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2068
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2068
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Navami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
May 2068
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2068
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Jul 2068
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Tritiya
Aug 2068
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ashtami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Sep 2068
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Oct 2068
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ashtami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:01
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:36
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:41
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Nov 2068
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:34
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Dec 2068
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
106 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 2068
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:37
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:48
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:56
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:26
Feb 2068
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:00
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:11
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:29
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:57
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mar 2068
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:22
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Chaturthi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:31
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:08
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:38
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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.