📅 Hindu Calendar — October 2021

🗓 October 2021 at a glance

Hindu month in October 2021: Ashwin and Kartik (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: October 2 (Saturday) — Indira Ekadashi (Krishna paksha); October 16 (Saturday) — Papankusha Ekadashi (Shukla paksha)
• Purnima (by sunrise tithi): October 20 (Wednesday)
• Amavasya (by sunrise tithi): October 6 (Wednesday)
• Festivals: Soma Pradosha vrata — 4, 18; Sarva Pitru Amavasya (Mahalaya) — 6; Start of Sharadiya Navratri — 7; Durga Ashtami — 13; Mahanavami — 14; Vijayadashami (Dussehra) — 15; Tula Sankranti — 17; Sharada Purnima — 20; Karwa Chauth — 24; Ahoi Ashtami — 29
• Monthly vrats: Masik Shivaratri 5 · Sankashti Chaturthi 24
• Panchak days: 15–20
• Gandmool days: 2–3, 11–12, 20–21, 30–31
• Planetary changes: October 2 — Mercury enters Virgo (exalted); October 2 — Venus enters Scorpio; October 11 — Saturn turns direct in Capricorn; October 17 — Sun enters Libra (debilitated); October 18 — Jupiter turns direct in Capricorn; October 18 — Mercury turns direct in Virgo; October 22 — Mars enters Libra; October 30 — Venus enters Sagittarius