get_year_events
Hindu festival & vrat dates for a year
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Returns dated Hindu calendar events for a whole year at one city. category='festival' lists every festival and vrat that year (Holi, Diwali, Navratri, Shivratri and the rest); the other categories list every ekadashi, purnima, amavasya or sankranti date. Each row is the exact local date and the event name, plus a one-line significance on shorter lists. Use this for 'when is X this year' and 'list all ekadashi dates' questions. For the detail of a single day (tithi, sunrise, rahu kaal) call get_panchang with that date; for eclipses call get_eclipses. Read-only deterministic computation (Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsa), served from a shared cache -- a cold or expired entry recomputes and can take ~30s; no writes, no auth, at least 30 requests/min/IP per server instance, plus a shared engine budget of at least 60/min/IP across all engine-backed tools. Constraints: the year must be within two years either side of the current year, and results are computed for the nearest of 50 supported cities (a location_note names it when the snap is far); long lists are capped at 80 rows, so pass month to page through them.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| year | integer | yes | Gregorian calendar year as a number, e.g. 2026. Only the current year plus or minus two is supported; anything else is rejected. |
| category | string | yes | "festival" returns every event of the year; "ekadashi", "purnima", "amavasya" and "sankranti" each narrow the list to that lunar/solar family only. |
| month | integer | no | Restrict the result to a single Gregorian month, 1 = January to 12 = December. Omit for the whole year. Use it when a year-wide list came back truncated. |
| place | string | no | City as free text, e.g. "Jaipur" or "Chennai, India". Omit to use Delhi. Any input is snapped to the nearest of 50 supported cities, since tithi-based dates can differ by a day between distant longitudes. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"year": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"description": "Gregorian calendar year as a number, e.g. 2026. Only the current year plus or minus two is supported; anything else is rejected."
},
"category": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"festival",
"ekadashi",
"purnima",
"amavasya",
"sankranti"
],
"description": "\"festival\" returns every event of the year; \"ekadashi\", \"purnima\", \"amavasya\" and \"sankranti\" each narrow the list to that lunar/solar family only."
},
"month": {
"description": "Restrict the result to a single Gregorian month, 1 = January to 12 = December. Omit for the whole year. Use it when a year-wide list came back truncated.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 12
},
"place": {
"description": "City as free text, e.g. \"Jaipur\" or \"Chennai, India\". Omit to use Delhi. Any input is snapped to the nearest of 50 supported cities, since tithi-based dates can differ by a day between distant longitudes.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 160
}
},
"required": [
"year",
"category"
]
}