/v1/festivals/on-date

Festivals falling on a specific date.

What this tells you

Check if any festival falls on a specific date. Useful for "today's festivals" widgets and for annotating panchang summary cards.

Request

All requests require an Authorization header with your dv_live_* API key.

example request

curl "https://api.divyastroapi.com/v1/festivals/on-date?date=2026-04-19&time=06%3A30&tz=%2B05%3A30&lat=28.61&lon=77.21" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dv_live_0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef"

Response (200 OK)

Successful requests return a JSON body. Field names are stable across versions.

200 response

{
  "date": "2026-04-16",
  "festivals": [
    { "name": "Ram Navami", "type": "festival", "importance": "major", "description": "Birth of Lord Rama — 9th day of Chaitra Shukla Paksha" }
  ],
  "has_festival": true
}

Field reference

Every field in the response, with its type, a real example, and what it means.

Field	Type	Meaning
date	string	Requested date. example: `"2026-04-16"`
festivals	array	Festivals on this date. Usually 0–2. example: `[…]`
has_festival	boolean	Convenience flag — true if at least one major or medium festival falls on this date. example: `true`

Usage tips

How to use it

Include in panchang summary
Call this in parallel with /v1/panchang/summary and show festival names as an extra line in the card.

Errors

Every error follows the same envelope. Use the error.code field (not the message) for conditional logic in your integration.

401 Unauthorized

{
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "missing or invalid API key",
    "request_id": "req_01hqy7k8c3e7m1n"
  }
}

402 Payment Required

{
  "error": {
    "code": "trial_exhausted",
    "message": "your free trial credits are exhausted — pick a plan to continue",
    "top_up_url": "https://divyastroapi.com/pricing",
    "request_id": "req_01hqy7k8c3e7m1n"
  }
}

429 Too Many Requests

{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limited",
    "message": "rate limit exceeded; retry after 12 seconds",
    "request_id": "req_01hqy7k8c3e7m1n"
  }
}

Try it

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