Festival
Holi dates
Computed year by year from the Moon and the Sun. Each row shows the tithi the festival sits on and the lunar month in both the amanta and purnimanta reckonings, because the two name the same month differently during krishna paksha.
Also called: Dhulandi, Rangwali Holi, Dhuleti
The next one
Monday, 22 March 2027
PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving., PhalgunaThe twelfth and last lunar month, February into March. Holika burns on its full Moon, and the year turns with the month after it.
Bhadra until 05:15 amThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on.
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The rule
What the date is derived from, stated so you can check it.
The day after Holika Dahan, so it is derived from the same PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. rather than computed separately. That is why the two can never drift apart by an accident of rounding.
The day is settled by the tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. at pradoshThe stretch just after sunset, roughly an hour and a half of it. Diwali is fixed by the tithi running then, and the Trayodashi vrat is kept in it., just after sunset.
Festival
Holi dates
| Year | Date | TithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. | Lunar monthThe lunar month, named after the nakshatra the full Moon lands in. It is about twenty-nine and a half days, so it drifts against the English calendar. |
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| 2025Friday | Friday, 14 March 2025 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | PhalgunaThe twelfth and last lunar month, February into March. Holika burns on its full Moon, and the year turns with the month after it.Bhadra until 11:27 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2026Tuesday | Tuesday, 3 March 2026 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | PhalgunaThe twelfth and last lunar month, February into March. Holika burns on its full Moon, and the year turns with the month after it.Bhadra until 05:28 amThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2027Monday | Monday, 22 March 2027 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | PhalgunaThe twelfth and last lunar month, February into March. Holika burns on its full Moon, and the year turns with the month after it.Bhadra until 05:15 amThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2028Saturday | Saturday, 11 March 2028 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | PhalgunaThe twelfth and last lunar month, February into March. Holika burns on its full Moon, and the year turns with the month after it.Bhadra until 08:28 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2029Thursday | Thursday, 1 March 2029 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | PhalgunaThe twelfth and last lunar month, February into March. Holika burns on its full Moon, and the year turns with the month after it.Bhadra until 12:25 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2030Wednesday | Wednesday, 20 March 2030 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | PhalgunaThe twelfth and last lunar month, February into March. Holika burns on its full Moon, and the year turns with the month after it.Bhadra until 12:47 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
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