Eid, Diwali, Lunar New Year and Hanukkah dates

Holidays that follow the moon move against our calendar every year. Here they are to 2035 — Islamic, Hindu, Chinese and Jewish — with an honest word on where a date can be a day off.

Diwali 2026: Sunday, November 8, 2026

Hanukkah 2026: first candle on the evening of Friday, December 4, 2026

Lunar New Year 2027: Saturday, February 6, 2027

Eid al-Fitr 2027: Tuesday, March 9, 2027, give or take a day

Holi 2027: Monday, March 22, 2027

Eid al-Adha 2027: Sunday, May 16, 2027, give or take a day

Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha

Eid by the Umm al-Qura calendar, 2026–2035 — may shift by a day
Year	Eid al-Fitr1 Shawwal	Eid al-Adha10 Dhu al-Hijjah
2026	Fri, Mar 20	Wed, May 27
2027	Tue, Mar 9	Sun, May 16
2028	Sat, Feb 26	Fri, May 5
2029	Wed, Feb 14	Tue, Apr 24
2030	Mon, Feb 4	Sat, Apr 13
2031	Fri, Jan 24	Wed, Apr 2
2032	Wed, Jan 14	Mon, Mar 22
2033	Mon, Jan 3 and Fri, Dec 23	Sat, Mar 12
2034	Tue, Dec 12	Wed, Mar 1
2035	Sat, Dec 1	Mon, Feb 19

Eid al-Fitr (Eid ul-Fitr) ends Ramadan; Eid al-Adha (Eid ul-Adha, or Bakrid) comes about ten weeks later. The Islamic calendar is lunar and its year is about eleven days shorter than ours, so both Eids come roughly eleven days earlier each year — which is why Eid al-Fitr falls twice in 2033.

The dates above follow the Umm al-Qura calendar, Saudi Arabia's official one. In many countries the day is set by sighting the new moon and announced only the evening before, so where you are, Eid can fall a day later or a day earlier. Published tables reach only a few years ahead; the later dates here are calculated, and tables can disagree by a day. Treat every Eid date on this page as ±1 day.

Diwali and Holi

Diwali and Holi for New Delhi, 2026–2035 — may differ by a day by region
Year	DiwaliLakshmi Puja	Holithe day of colours
2026	Sun, Nov 8	Wed, Mar 4
2027	Fri, Oct 29	Mon, Mar 22
2028	Tue, Oct 17	Sat, Mar 11
2029	Mon, Nov 5	Thu, Mar 1
2030	Sat, Oct 26	Wed, Mar 20
2031	Fri, Nov 14	Sun, Mar 9
2032	Tue, Nov 2	Sat, Mar 27
2033	Sat, Oct 22	Wed, Mar 16
2034	Fri, Nov 10	Sun, Mar 5
2035	Tue, Oct 30	Sat, Mar 24

Diwali — the night of Lakshmi Puja — falls on the new moon of Kartika in the North Indian calendar, so in October or November; Holi, the festival of colours, comes the day after the Phalguna full moon, in March. Both follow the Hindu lunisolar calendar, and regional calendars can put them a day apart.

The dates here are for New Delhi, taken from published tables and checked against an independent astronomical calculation.

Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year by the Chinese calendar, 2026–2035
Year	Lunar New Year1st day of the 1st month
2026	Tue, Feb 17
2027	Sat, Feb 6
2028	Wed, Jan 26
2029	Tue, Feb 13
2030	Sun, Feb 3
2031	Thu, Jan 23
2032	Wed, Feb 11
2033	Mon, Jan 31
2034	Sun, Feb 19
2035	Thu, Feb 8

Lunar New Year — Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival in China — is the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, and always falls between 21 January and 20 February.

Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Hanukkah

The first full day of each holiday, 2026–2035, and the evening it begins
Year	Passover15 Nisan	Rosh Hashanah1 Tishrei	Hanukkah25 Kislev
2026	Thu, Apr 2 from sundown Wed, Apr 1	Sat, Sep 12 from sundown Fri, Sep 11	Sat, Dec 5 from sundown Fri, Dec 4
2027	Thu, Apr 22 from sundown Wed, Apr 21	Sat, Oct 2 from sundown Fri, Oct 1	Sat, Dec 25 from sundown Fri, Dec 24
2028	Tue, Apr 11 from sundown Mon, Apr 10	Thu, Sep 21 from sundown Wed, Sep 20	Wed, Dec 13 from sundown Tue, Dec 12
2029	Sat, Mar 31 from sundown Fri, Mar 30	Mon, Sep 10 from sundown Sun, Sep 9	Sun, Dec 2 from sundown Sat, Dec 1
2030	Thu, Apr 18 from sundown Wed, Apr 17	Sat, Sep 28 from sundown Fri, Sep 27	Sat, Dec 21 from sundown Fri, Dec 20
2031	Tue, Apr 8 from sundown Mon, Apr 7	Thu, Sep 18 from sundown Wed, Sep 17	Wed, Dec 10 from sundown Tue, Dec 9
2032	Sat, Mar 27 from sundown Fri, Mar 26	Mon, Sep 6 from sundown Sun, Sep 5	Sun, Nov 28 from sundown Sat, Nov 27
2033	Thu, Apr 14 from sundown Wed, Apr 13	Sat, Sep 24 from sundown Fri, Sep 23	Sat, Dec 17 from sundown Fri, Dec 16
2034	Tue, Apr 4 from sundown Mon, Apr 3	Thu, Sep 14 from sundown Wed, Sep 13	Thu, Dec 7 from sundown Wed, Dec 6
2035	Tue, Apr 24 from sundown Mon, Apr 23	Thu, Oct 4 from sundown Wed, Oct 3	Wed, Dec 26 from sundown Tue, Dec 25

A Jewish holiday begins at sundown the evening before its first full day. The table gives both: the first full day — Pesach (Passover) on 15 Nisan, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on 1 Tishrei, Hanukkah (Chanukah) on 25 Kislev — and the evening it starts. Hanukkah lasts eight nights; the first candle is lit on that first evening.

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Last reviewed 12 October 2026