Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Festivals 2011 Calendar Hindu



Hindu Festivals 2011 calendar



Hindu Festivals 2011 based on Hindu traditional calendar - India Standard Time. This is a list of important festival dates in Hinduism in 2011 based on various regional Hindu calendars. The same festival might be celebrated a day earlier or later in different parts of India. The calendar is incomplete as there is confusion regarding few Hindu festivals in 2011.

January 2011

Makar Sankranti – 14th January, 2011 - (15th January in western and eastern parts of India)

Pongal – 15th January, 2011

Thai Pusam – January 20, 2011

February 2011

Vasant Panchami – Saraswati Puja – February 8, 2011

March 2011

Shivratri – 3rd March, 2011

Holi – March 20th, 2011

April 2011

Ugadi (New Year in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh) – April 4th, 2011

Gudi Padva – April 4th, 2011

Chaitra Navratri Begins - April 4th, 2011

Cheti Chand - April 5, 2011

Ram Navami – 12th April, 2011

Chithirai 1 (Tamil New Year) – 14th April, 2011

Vishu (Kerala) – 15th April, 2011

New Year in Bengal and Assam – 15th April, 2011

Hanuman Jayanti – 18th April, 2011

May 2011

Akshaya Tritiya – 6th May, 2011

Narasimha Jayanti – 16th May, 2011

June 2011

Puri Rath Yatra – 3 July, 2011

July 2011

Vyas Purnima, Guru Purnima – 15th July, 2011

August 2011

Raksha Bandan – 13th August, 2011

Sri Krishna Janmashtami – 22nd August, 2011

September 2011

Ganesh Chaturthi - 1st September, 2011

Onam - September 9, 2011

Pitru Paksha Shradh - 13th September, 2011 to 27th September

Navratri Begins – 28th September, 2011

October 2011

Durga Ashtami – 4th October, 2011

Maha Navami – 5th October, 2011

Vijaya Dashami – Dussehra – 6th October, 2011

Karva Chouth – October 13, 2011

Deepavali – Diwali – 26th October, 2011

Gujarati New Year - 27th October, 2011

November 2011

Karti Purnima - November 10

Sabarimala Mandala Kalam begins – 16th November, 2011

December 2011

Sri Dattatreya Jayanti - December 10