Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 2096
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
2096 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 2096
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 2096
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 2096
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:26
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Apr 2096
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Navami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Saptami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
May 2096
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Dashami
Jun 2096
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dwitiya
Jul 2096
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Dwadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Panchami
Aug 2096
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ashtami
Sep 2096
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Oct 2096
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Purnima
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Pratipada
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ashtami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Dashami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:37
Nov 2096
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 20:05
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:28
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Dwitiya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 06:49
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 2096
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Panchami
Mangalvaar (Tue) · 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 2096
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:40
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:11
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:16
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 17:53
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Amavasya
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Chaturthi
Feb 2096
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:04
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:03
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:47
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Ekadashi
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:16
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Amavasya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mar 2096
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Ekadashi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:25
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 17:50
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:17
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:34
Shukravaar (Fri) · 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.