Hindi Calendar &Month names Guide
We are a small, independent editorial organization dedicated to making India’s traditional calendar systems — the Hindu lunisolar calendar, Vikram Samvat, the six Ritu seasons, Panchang, Tithi — understandable, searchable, and relevant for people living in 2026. Whether you grew up in Delhi or Durban, whether you’re planning a wedding, a fast, or simply trying to understand why Diwali falls on a different date every year, this is the resource we wished had existed when we started asking these questions ourselves.
Some things get lost between two calendars.
The date on your phone says one thing. Your grandmother’s Panchang says another. A festival your family has observed for generations falls on a day that doesn’t exist in any app. And somewhere between the Gregorian grid and the lunar cycle, people lose the thread.
That’s the gap EduCalendar India was built to close.
What We Cover
Our editorial focus sits at the intersection of three things: accurate calendar data, cultural context, and practical usefulness.
That means you’ll find articles explaining the 12 Hindi months and their Gregorian equivalents, the science behind Adhik Maas and why 2026 is a 13-month year, the six Indian seasons and how they shaped agriculture and festival cycles, government and bank holidays for India, and the regional calendar variations that explain why the same festival is celebrated on different dates in Maharashtra versus Tamil Nadu.
We update our content when dates shift, when new calendar years begin, and when readers write in to point out something we’ve missed. We don’t publish and forget.
Our Editorial Organization
EduCalendar India is the publisher and editorial body behind monthnameshindi.com. All content published on this site is researched, written, and reviewed under EduCalendar India’s editorial standards before it goes live.
We operate with a small core team and a clear division of responsibility: research and primary writing is led by our Research Head, with editorial review focused on cultural accuracy, source verification, and readability for a global audience that includes the Indian diaspora in the UK, US, Canada, and Southeast Asia.
Our editorial standards require that every factual claim about calendar dates, festival timings, or astronomical events be cross-referenced against primary sources — including regional Panchangs, the Indian National Calendar established by Prof. Meghnad Saha’s committee, and peer-reviewed scholarship on Hindu timekeeping systems.
We do not publish sponsored content dressed as editorial. We do not accept payment to promote specific Panchangs, astrologers, or calendar products. What you read here reflects what our research found, not what someone paid us to say.
Meet the Research Head
Auditya Verma leads research and writing at EduCalendar India.
Auditya’s relationship with the Indian calendar began the way most deep interests do — not in a classroom, but in conversation. Growing up at the intersection of South Asian cultures, he was surrounded by people who lived by two calendars simultaneously: the Gregorian one that governed school and work, and the lunar one that governed everything that actually mattered — fasts, festivals, auspicious dates, the rhythm of seasons. The gap between those two systems, and the quiet confusion it caused for people disconnected from their heritage, became the question that drove years of independent study.
That study took him through classical texts on Vedic astronomy, regional Panchang traditions, the standardization work of the Rashtriya Panchang committee, and the folk calendar systems that survive in village practice across the subcontinent. It also gave him something that formal academic training often doesn’t: the perspective of an outsider looking in with genuine respect, rather than an insider who has stopped noticing what needs explanation.
Today Auditya leads all primary research and writing at EduCalendar India. He is responsible for the accuracy of calendar dates published on this site, the cultural framing of festival and seasonal content, and the editorial voice that tries to make ancient systems feel accessible without flattening their complexity.
You may contact him on our official Medium, Goodreads, and Twitter/X, where he writes about calendar culture, Indian timekeeping, and the living traditions behind the dates.
→ Read Auditya’s full author profile and article archive
Our Editorial Standards
Accuracy first. Calendar dates, Tithi calculations, and festival timings are verified against multiple regional Panchangs before publication. Where sources disagree — and they sometimes do — we explain the disagreement rather than hide it.
Sources cited. When we reference astronomical data, historical scholarship, or government calendar standards, we link to the source. Readers should be able to verify what we’ve written.
Updated when things change. The Hindu calendar shifts every year. We update our content when the new calendar year begins, when date discrepancies are found, and when readers flag errors. If you find something wrong, please contact us — we take corrections seriously.
No undisclosed conflicts. We do not accept payment to write about specific products, astrologers, or services. Any future monetization through advertising will be disclosed clearly and will not influence editorial content.
Written for the diaspora too. A significant portion of our readers grew up outside India. Our writing assumes cultural curiosity, not cultural fluency. We explain things that an Indian reader might take for granted, because we believe that’s what genuine education looks like.
Why This Site Exists
The Indian calendar is not a relic. It’s an active, living system that governs when 1.4 billion people celebrate, fast, marry, plant, and mourn. It’s also genuinely complex — lunisolar mechanics, regional variation, the occasional 13th month — in ways that no single app or printed Panchang fully explains.
We built this site because we kept finding that the available resources were either too technical for a general reader, too simplified to be accurate, or written with the assumption that you already knew everything. None of them were written for someone who grew up hearing about Shravan and Kartik and Chaitra but never quite understood how they mapped to the world they actually lived in.
That’s the person we write for.
Connect With Us
We’re a small team and we read every message.
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EduCalendar India is the editorial organization behind monthnameshindi.com. We are an independent educational resource and are not affiliated with any government body, religious institution, or commercial Panchang publisher.