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Festivals 2019

DateObservanceDecided byStanding
Tue 1 JanSaphalā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Thu 3 JanKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 77 of 77 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Thu 3 JanŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Boundary
Wed 9 JanVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Boundary
Sun 13 JanBhogiKept the day before Pongal.Determinate
Mon 14 JanPongalThe Sun enters Makara on this day, before sunset.Determinate
Mon 14 JanMakara SaṅkrāntiThe Sun enters Makara on this day, counted from midnight.Determinate
Tue 15 JanMattu PongalKept the day after Pongal.Determinate
Thu 17 JanPutradā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Fri 18 JanŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 79 of 79 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Wed 23 JanSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Thu 31 JanṢaṭtilā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Fri 1 FebKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 82 of 82 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sat 2 FebŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Sun 3 FebYama TarpaṇaCaturdaśī covers 83 of 83 minutes of aruṇodaya.Determinate
Fri 8 FebGaṇeśa JayantīMaghi Ganesh JayantiCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 8 FebTila CaturthīCaturthī covers 84 of 84 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sat 9 FebŚrī PañcamīPañcamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 9 FebVasanta PañcamīPañcamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Tue 12 FebRatha SaptamīSaptamī covers 85 of 85 minutes of aruṇodaya.Determinate
Sat 16 FebJayā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Sat 16 FebBhīṣma DvādaśīDvādaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 17 FebŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 86 of 86 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Tue 19 FebMāghī PūrṇimāPūrṇimā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 22 FebSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Sat 2 MarVijayā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Sun 3 MarKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 90 of 90 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Mon 4 MarMahāśivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Sun 10 MarVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 17 MarĀmalakī EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Mon 18 MarŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 94 of 94 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Wed 20 MarHolikā DahanaPūrṇimā covers 146 of 146 minutes of sāyāhna.Determinate
Thu 21 MarHolīKept the day after Holikā Dahana.Determinate
Thu 21 MarVasantotsavaPratipadā holds at sunrise.Determinate
Sat 23 MarSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Thu 28 MarŚītalāṣṭamīAṣṭamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 31 MarPāpamocanī EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Tue 2 AprKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 99 of 99 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Wed 3 AprŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Fri 5 AprNavarātrārambha (Caitra)Chaitra NavratriPratipadā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 7 AprGaurī TṛtīyāGangaurTṛtīyā covers 41 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Boundary
Mon 8 AprSaubhāgya Śayana VrataTṛtīyā covers 22 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 8 AprVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 26 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Boundary
Tue 9 AprLakṣmī PañcamīPañcamī covers 34 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 12 AprBhavānī UtpattiAṣṭamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 13 AprRāma NavamīNavamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 14 AprVaiśākhīThe Sun enters Meṣa on this day, counted from sunrise.Determinate
Mon 15 AprKāmadā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Wed 17 AprAnaṅga TrayodaśīTrayodaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Wed 17 AprŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 33 of 103 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Thu 18 AprViṣṇudamanaka CaturdaśīCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 19 AprCaitrī PūrṇimāPūrṇimā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Boundary
Mon 22 AprSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Tue 30 AprVarūthinī EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Thu 2 MayKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 106 of 106 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Thu 2 MayŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Boundary
Tue 7 MayAkṣaya TṛtīyāTṛtīyā covers 211 of 211 minutes of pūrvāhṇa.Determinate
Tue 7 MayParaśurāma JayantīTṛtīyā covers 108 of 108 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Wed 8 MayVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Thu 9 MayŚaṅkara JayantīPañcamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 11 MayGaṅgotpattiGanga SaptamiSaptamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Tue 14 MayMohinī EkādaśīEkādaśī touches no sunrise; it is kept on the day it falls.Determinate
Wed 15 MayParaśurāma DvādaśīDvādaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Wed 15 MayRukmiṇī DvādaśīDvādaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Thu 16 MayŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 109 of 109 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Fri 17 MayNṛsiṃha CaturdaśīNarasimha JayantiCaturdaśī covers 110 of 110 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sat 18 MayBuddha PūrṇimāPūrṇimā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 18 MaySampat Gaurī VrataPūrṇimā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Wed 22 MaySaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Thu 30 MayAparā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Fri 31 MayKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 112 of 112 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sat 1 JunŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Wed 5 JunRambhā TṛtīyāTṛtīyā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Thu 6 JunVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 8 JunAraṇya Gaurī VrataṢaṣṭhī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 8 JunSkanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha)Ṣaṣṭhī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Thu 13 JunNirjalā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Fri 14 JunŚrī Rāma DvādaśīDvādaśī does not reach madhyāhna on either day.Determinate
Fri 14 JunŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 113 of 113 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sun 16 JunVaṭa Sāvitrī VrataPūrṇimā covers 113 of 113 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Thu 20 JunSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Fri 28 JunYoginī EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Sun 30 JunKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 113 of 113 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sun 30 JunŚivarātriCaturdaśī does not reach niśītha on either day.Boundary
Thu 4 JulRathayātrāDvitīyā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 5 JulVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 36 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 6 JulSkanda PañcamīPañcamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 8 JulVivasvat SaptamīSaptamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 12 JulHariśayanī EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Sun 14 JulŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 111 of 111 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Tue 16 JulVyāsa PūjāPūrṇimā covers 121 of 121 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise.Determinate
Tue 16 JulGuru PūrṇimāPūrṇimā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Tue 16 JulKokilā VrataPūrṇimā covers 121 of 121 minutes of sāyāhna.Determinate
Tue 16 JulŚiva ŚayanotsavaPūrṇimā covers 111 of 111 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Thu 18 JulAśūnya Śayana Vrata (Āṣāḍha)Dvitīyā is current at moonrise.Determinate
Sat 20 JulSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Sun 28 JulKāmikā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Mon 29 JulKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 109 of 109 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Tue 30 JulŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Sat 3 AugMadhusravā TṛtīyāHariyali TeejTṛtīyā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 4 AugVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 5 AugNāga PañcamīPañcamī does not reach madhyāhna on either day.Boundary
Sat 10 AugPutradā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Sun 11 AugDāmodara DvādaśīDvādaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 12 AugŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 106 of 106 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Wed 14 AugṚṣi TarpaṇaPūrṇimā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Boundary
Thu 15 AugRakṣā BandhanaRakhiThe second half of Pūrṇimā covers 423 of 1439 minutes of the day.Boundary
Fri 16 AugAśūnya Śayana VrataDvitīyā is current at moonrise.Determinate
Sun 18 AugKajjalī TṛtīyāKajari TeejTṛtīyā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 19 AugBahulā CaturthīCaturthī covers 131 of 131 minutes of sāyāhna.Determinate
Mon 19 AugSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Wed 21 AugHala ṢaṣṭhīṢaṣṭhī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Thu 22 AugŚītalā SaptamīSaptamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 23 AugJanmāṣṭamīAṣṭamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Mon 26 AugAjā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Wed 28 AugAghora CaturdaśīCaturdaśī covers 8 of 102 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Wed 28 AugKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 94 of 102 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Wed 28 AugŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Fri 30 AugRudra VrataPratipadā covers 34 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 1 SepHaritālikā VrataHartalika TeejTṛtīyā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 2 SepGaṇeśa CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Tue 3 SepṚṣi PañcamīPañcamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Wed 4 SepSūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada)Ṣaṣṭhī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Thu 5 SepMuktābharaṇa VrataSaptamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 6 SepRādhāṣṭamīAṣṭamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 9 SepParivartanī EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Tue 10 SepVāmana JayantīDvādaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Wed 11 SepŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 98 of 98 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Thu 12 SepAnanta CaturdaśīCaturdaśī covers 141 of 141 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise.Determinate
Tue 17 SepSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Thu 19 SepCandra ṢaṣṭhīṢaṣṭhī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Sat 21 SepJitāṣṭamīJitiyaAṣṭamī covers 95 of 95 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sat 21 SepMahālakṣmī Vrata SamāpanaAṣṭamī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Wed 25 SepIndirā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Thu 26 SepKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 94 of 94 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Fri 27 SepŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 3 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Boundary
Sat 28 SepMahālaya AmāvāsyāSarvapitṛ AmāvāsyāAmāvasyā covers 148 of 148 minutes of aparāhṇa.Determinate
Sun 29 SepNavarātrārambhaNavratriPratipadā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Tue 1 OctVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 4 OctDurgā SaptamīSaptamī covers 50 of 50 minutes of the first muhūrta after sunrise.Boundary
Sat 5 OctMahāṣṭamīDurga AshtamiAṣṭamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 6 OctMahānavamīNavamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Tue 8 OctVijayā DaśamīDussehraDaśamī with Śravaṇa covers 306 of 759 minutes of the day time.Boundary
Wed 9 OctPāśāṅkuśā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Thu 10 OctŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 90 of 90 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Thu 17 OctKaraka CaturthīKarwa ChauthCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Thu 17 OctSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Sun 20 OctAhoyī AṣṭamīAṣṭamī does not reach moonrise on either day.Boundary
Thu 24 OctRamā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Thu 24 OctGovatsa DvādaśīVasu BarasDvādaśī covers 86 of 86 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Fri 25 OctYama DīpadānaTrayodaśī covers 86 of 86 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Fri 25 OctKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 86 of 86 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sat 26 OctŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Sun 27 OctNaraka CaturdaśīChoti DiwaliCaturdaśī covers 86 of 86 minutes of aruṇodaya.Determinate
Sun 27 OctLakṣmī PūjāDiwaliAmāvasyā covers 85 of 85 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sun 27 OctKālī PūjāAmāvasyā covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Mon 28 OctGovardhana PūjāPratipadā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 28 OctBali PūjāPratipadā covers 85 of 85 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Mon 28 OctDyūta PratipadPratipadā covers 267 of 267 minutes of pūrvāhṇa.Determinate
Tue 29 OctYama DvitīyāBhai DoojDvitīyā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Thu 31 OctNāga CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Thu 31 OctVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 2 NovSūrya ṢaṣṭhīChhathṢaṣṭhī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 4 NovGopāṣṭamīAṣṭamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Tue 5 NovAkṣaya NavamīAmla NavamiNavamī covers 272 of 272 minutes of pūrvāhṇa.Determinate
Tue 5 NovDurgā NavamīNavamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 8 NovPrabodhinī EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Sat 9 NovŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 82 of 82 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Mon 11 NovRāsayātrāPūrṇimā covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Tue 12 NovKārtikī PūrṇimāPūrṇimā covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Fri 15 NovSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Fri 22 NovUtpannā EkādaśīEkādaśī touches no sunrise; it is kept on the day it falls.Boundary
Sun 24 NovKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 79 of 79 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sun 24 NovŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Sat 30 NovVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sun 1 DecNāga Pañcamī (Mārgaśīrṣa)Pañcamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 2 DecCampā ṢaṣṭhīṢaṣṭhī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 2 DecSkanda ṢaṣṭhīṢaṣṭhī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Tue 3 DecMitra SaptamīSaptamī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Sat 7 DecMokṣadā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Sun 8 DecAkhaṇḍa DvādaśīDvādaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate
Mon 9 DecŚukla Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 77 of 77 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Wed 11 DecDattātreyotpattiDatta JayantiPūrṇimā covers 77 of 77 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Sun 15 DecSaṅkaṣṭa CaturthīCaturthī is current at moonrise.Determinate
Sun 22 DecSaphalā EkādaśīEkādaśī holds at sunrise.Determinate
Mon 23 DecKṛṣṇa Pradoṣa VrataTrayodaśī covers 77 of 77 minutes of pradoṣa.Determinate
Tue 24 DecŚivarātriCaturdaśī covers 48 of 48 minutes of niśītha.Determinate
Sun 29 DecVināyaka CaturthīCaturthī covers 48 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna.Determinate

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