Hindu Festival Calendar
Festivals through the year — Bay Area
Upcoming Hindu festivals with live countdowns. Add any to your calendar, or request a pooja for the day.
Festival dates and observances can vary by location, sampradāya and the timing of the relevant tithi. This calendar provides Bay Area guidance computed by the traditional Drik (observation-based) method — please confirm important observances with Sri Kumar Gurukkal. Our editorial & ritual standards → · How dates are calculated →
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Single observances: EkādaśīPradoṣamPūrṇimāAmāvāsyāSankaṣṭīMāsik Śivarātri
Monthly observances — Ekādaśī, Pradoṣam, Pūrṇimā and the rest
New: the Festival Companion takes the next festivals in order — the date and why, how families keep it, what is offered, and how to add it to your calendar.
2028 dates still to be confirmed
The 2028 calendar is this site’s own computation. These 39 dates are not published, because the observance’s tithi falls at no sunrise or at two in 2028 and nothing settles which day, or because its definition is still a question for Sri Kumar Gurukkal. Each will be added once he has confirmed it — please ask him before planning around one. How the 2028 dates were made.
Show the 39 dates and why each is held
- Chaitra Chhath - Nahay KhayThe dates published for it in 2026–27 do not follow one consistent definition, so none is extended.
- Charak PujaCharak Pūjā is kept on Caitra Saṅkrānti, the last day of the Bengali month — the day before Poila Boishakh. The published rows put it TWO days before, in both years, and no Bengal rule found here explains that. Held until the convention is confirmed.
- Chhath Puja - KharnaIts days are kept one after another, and in 2028 the tithis put two of them on the same Bay Area day, so how the sequence is kept that year is left to Sri Kumar Gurukkal rather than computed.
- Chhath Puja - Nahay KhayIts days are kept one after another, and in 2028 the tithis put two of them on the same Bay Area day, so how the sequence is kept that year is left to Sri Kumar Gurukkal rather than computed.
- Chhath Puja - Sandhya ArghyaIts days are kept one after another, and in 2028 the tithis put two of them on the same Bay Area day, so how the sequence is kept that year is left to Sri Kumar Gurukkal rather than computed.
- Chhath Puja - Usha ArghyaIts days are kept one after another, and in 2028 the tithis put two of them on the same Bay Area day, so how the sequence is kept that year is left to Sri Kumar Gurukkal rather than computed.
- Chitalagi AmavasyaThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 19 and 20 August 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Gajan FestivalCounted from Charak Pūjā, which is held.
- Garuda PanchamiThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 25 and 26 July 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Gujarati Nag PanchamThe tithi runs through two sunrises (9 and 10 August 2028), and no tie-break for this observance is established.
- Kajari TeejThe tithi runs through two sunrises (7 and 8 August 2028), and no tie-break for this observance is established.
- Kali ChaudasThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 16 and 17 October 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Magha Gupta Navratri BeginsThe tithi runs through two sunrises (26 and 27 January 2028), and no tie-break for this observance is established.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 1 - ShailaputriIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 2 - BrahmachariniIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 3 - ChandraghantaIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 4 - KushmandaIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 5 - SkandamataIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 6 - KatyayaniIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 7 - KalaratriIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 8 - MahagauriIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Magha Gupta Navratri Day 9 - SiddhidatriIt is counted from Magha Gupta Navratri Begins, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Mahalakshmi Vrat BeginsThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 26 and 27 August 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Manasa Puja / Manasa Devi observanceIt is counted from Nag Panchami, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Masik ShivaratriThe tithi runs through two sunrises (23 and 24 March 2028), and no tie-break for this observance is established.
- Nag PanchamiThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 25 and 26 July 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Nagara Panchami - KarnatakaThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 25 and 26 July 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Nanda AshtamiThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 26 and 27 August 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Nirjala EkadashiThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 2 and 3 June 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Phulera DoojThe tithi runs through two sunrises (26 and 27 February 2028), and no tie-break for this observance is established.
- Pitru Paksha BeginsIt is counted from Pratipada Shraddha, whose 2028 date is itself held.
- Polala AmavasyaThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 19 and 20 August 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Pratipada ShraddhaThe tithi touches the deciding window on two days (3 and 4 September 2028), and the cited rule and the dates published for 2026–27 settle such a tie differently.
- Radha AshtamiThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 26 and 27 August 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
- Randhan ChhathThe tithi runs through two sunrises (10 and 11 August 2028), and no tie-break for this observance is established.
- Rigveda UpakarmaThe Ṛgvedī upākarma is kept on the Śravaṇa nakṣatra of the month in several traditions and on the pūrṇimā in others; the published rows follow the pūrṇimā. Which this site publishes is a question for Sri Kumar Gurukkal.
- Saraswati Avahan - NavratriSarasvatī Āvāhana is fixed by the Mūla nakṣatra in some traditions and by the saptamī in others; the published rows fit neither cleanly. Held for Gurukkal.
- Saraswati Puja - NavratriSarasvatī Pūjā is fixed by the Pūrvāṣāḍhā nakṣatra in some traditions and by the aṣṭamī or navamī in others; the published rows fit none cleanly. Held for Gurukkal.
- Vasu BarasThe tithi begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so it touches 14 and 15 October 2028 without prevailing at either sunrise, and which day this observance then moves to is a tradition’s rule not yet confirmed here.
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