📅 Hindu Calendar — May 2021

🗓 May 2021 at a glance

Hindu month in May 2021: Vaishakha and Jyeshtha (purnimanta reckoning). This month — Ekadashi: 2, Purnima: 1, Amavasya: 1. Dates below are for Delhi sunrise; the daily grid above has every tithi and nakshatra.

• Ekadashi: May 7 (Friday) — Varuthini Ekadashi (Krishna paksha); May 23 (Sunday) — Mohini Ekadashi (Shukla paksha)
• Purnima (by sunrise tithi): May 26 (Wednesday)
• Amavasya (by sunrise tithi): May 11 (Tuesday)
• Festivals: Kalashtami — 4; Vrishabha Sankranti — 14; Akshaya Tritiya — 15; Soma Pradosha vrata — 24; Narasimha Jayanti — 25; Buddha Purnima / Vaishakha Purnima — 26
• Monthly vrats: Pradosh Vrat 9 · Masik Shivaratri 10 · Vinayak Chaturthi 16
• Panchak days: 4–9, 31
• Gandmool days: 1, 9–10, 19–20, 27–28
• Planetary changes: May 1 — Mercury enters Taurus; May 4 — Venus enters Taurus (own sign); May 14 — Sun enters Taurus; May 23 — Saturn turns retrograde in Capricorn; May 26 — Mercury enters Gemini (own sign); May 29 — Venus enters Gemini; May 30 — Mercury turns retrograde in Gemini