📅 Hindu Calendar — August 2024

🗓 August 2024 at a glance

Hindu month in August 2024: Shravana and Bhadrapada (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: August 16 (Friday) — Shravana Putrada Ekadashi (Shukla paksha); August 29 (Thursday) — Aja Ekadashi (Krishna paksha)
• Purnima (by sunrise tithi): August 19 (Monday)
• Amavasya (by sunrise tithi): August 4 (Sunday)
• Festivals: Hariyali Teej — 7; Naga Panchami — 9; Sinha Sankranti — 16; Raksha Bandhan / Shravana Purnima — 19; Krishna Janmashtami — 26; Shani Pradosha vrata — 31
• Monthly vrats: Pradosha fast 2 · Masik Shivaratri 3 · Vinayaka Chaturthi 8 · Sankashti Chaturthi 23
• Panchak days: 19–23
• Gandmool days: 5–6, 15–16, 23–24
• Planetary changes: August 5 — Mercury turns retrograde in Leo; August 16 — Sun enters Leo (own sign); August 22 — Mercury enters Cancer; August 25 — Venus enters Virgo (debilitated); August 26 — Mars enters Gemini; August 29 — Mercury turns direct in Cancer