Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2081
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
2081 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 2081
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Feb 2081
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Saptami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Mar 2081
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:35 · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Apr 2081
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Shashthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
May 2081
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Jun 2081
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 2081
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dwadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 2081
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Tritiya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2081
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 2081
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Pratipada
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dashami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:21
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 19:49
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:36
Nov 2081
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Dwitiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:37
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Dec 2081
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Panchami
Guruvaar (Thu) · 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 2081
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:53
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:10
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:40
Feb 2081
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:05
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:07
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:36
Mar 2081
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
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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.