Dhanteras 2026 — Date, Puja Muhurat and the Best Time to Buy

Dhanteras 2026 date: 06 November 2026, Friday.

Dhanteras puja muhurat in Delhi: 6:03 PM to 7:59 PM. Mumbai - Dhanteras puja muhurat 6:38 PM to 8:35 PM. Dhanteras puja muhurat in Kolkata: 5:29 PM to 7:27 PM. Chennai - Dhanteras puja muhurat 6:15 PM to 8:10 PM. Dhanteras puja muhurat in Bengaluru: 6:26 PM to 8:21 PM. Hyderabad - Dhanteras puja muhurat 6:17 PM to 8:14 PM. Dhanteras puja muhurat in Ahmedabad: 6:32 PM to 8:30 PM. Pune - Dhanteras puja muhurat 6:34 PM to 8:32 PM. Dhanteras puja muhurat in Jaipur: 6:12 PM to 8:10 PM. Lucknow - Dhanteras puja muhurat 5:51 PM to 7:49 PM. Dhanteras puja muhurat in Kanpur: 5:56 PM to 7:52 PM. Patna - Dhanteras puja muhurat 5:38 PM to 7:34 PM.

The Dhanteras 2026 date opens the five days of Diwali. It falls on trayodashi - the thirteenth day - of the waning Moon in Kartik, and like Diwali itself it is kept on the day the tithi prevails in the evening, since the main worship belongs to pradosh.

The name joins dhan, wealth, with teras, thirteen. The day honours Dhanvantari, the physician who emerged from the churning of the ocean holding the pot of amrit, and it is also Lakshmi's day for bringing new wealth into the house. In India it doubles as National Ayurveda Day.

The live card above gives the Dhanteras 2026 date, the exact start and end of trayodashi, the puja muhurat for your city, the yam deepam time and the full shopping window. The city table and the five-day festival calendar follow below it.

The Dhanteras puja muhurat is computed the same way as the Diwali muhurat: the overlap of pradosh kaal after sunset, the rising Vrishabha (Taurus) lagna, and the trayodashi tithi. Taurus is a fixed sign, and wealth brought in under a fixed sign is held to stay.

Because sunset and the Taurus rising both depend on location, the Dhanteras puja muhurat differs between cities by up to forty minutes. The table gives it for twenty cities, and the form computes it for any other.

The puja itself is short. Lakshmi, Ganesha, Kubera and Dhanvantari are worshipped with flowers, rice, roli and sweets; the new purchases are placed before the altar and blessed; and lamps are lit. Inside the Dhanteras puja muhurat the whole thing takes twenty to thirty minutes.

The good news about the Dhanteras shopping time is that it is long. Purchases are auspicious for the whole of trayodashi, which runs close to a full day. The exact start and end are in the live card, and they apply to every city in India.

The gold buying muhurat on Dhanteras follows the same rule - any time inside trayodashi - but many families prefer to buy or collect jewellery in the evening, inside the puja muhurat, so that it can be placed on the altar immediately. Jewellers open early and stay open late for exactly this reason.

Two practical points. If trayodashi begins in the afternoon of one day, the Dhanteras shopping time starts then, even though the puja is on the following evening. And if the gold buying muhurat on Dhanteras clashes with work, booking the purchase earlier and collecting it inside trayodashi is an accepted solution.

The traditional answer to what to buy on Dhanteras is metal - and specifically metal that brings wealth or health into the house.

Gold and silver - coins, jewellery, or a small Lakshmi-Ganesha coin for the altar. Brass, copper or steel utensils - a new vessel is placed on the altar and used to cook the first sweet. A broom - to sweep away poverty; it is one of the cheapest and most widely kept purchases. Account books - for traders opening the new year. Dhaniya seeds - whole coriander, offered at the puja and later sown.

What is generally avoided: sharp objects, black items, glass that might break, and iron in its raw form, though stainless steel is widely bought. Borrowing or lending money on the day is also avoided.

Modern families have extended what to buy on Dhanteras to vehicles, electronics and property, all of which are fine inside trayodashi. The principle is simply that what comes into the house on this day should be useful and lasting.

A lamp for Yama is lit on the evening of Dhanteras, and the yam deepam time is the start of pradosh kaal, just after sunset. The live card gives the yam deepam time for your city.

The lamp is a four-wicked earthen diya filled with mustard oil, placed outside the main door facing south - Yama's direction. The story attached to it concerns a young prince fated to die on the fourth night of his marriage, whose wife kept him awake with lamps and stories until Yama, dazzled, left without him.

The yam deepam time is short in practice - the lamp is lit, a brief prayer for the family's long life is said, and it is left to burn. It is one of the quietest and oldest observances of the whole festival, and families who keep nothing else of Dhanteras often keep this.

1. The tithi. Kartik krishna trayodashi is found to the minute from the Moon's elongation with the Swiss Ephemeris.

2. The evening. The day on which trayodashi prevails at your sunset becomes Dhanteras.

3. The windows. Pradosh from your sunset and next sunrise, Vrishabha from the rising sidereal ascendant at your latitude, and the tithi itself; their overlap is the puja muhurat.

Jewellers announce their offers weeks before the Dhanteras 2026 date. The Dhanteras 2026 date is two days before Lakshmi Puja. Ayurveda colleges celebrate Dhanvantari Jayanti on the Dhanteras 2026 date.

Car dealers schedule deliveries for the Dhanteras 2026 date months in advance. The Dhanteras shopping time is the same across India; only the clock hour shifts. Online orders are timed to arrive inside the Dhanteras shopping time.

Plan the big purchase early in the Dhanteras shopping time, when stores are less crowded. If you are unsure what to buy on Dhanteras, a steel vessel and a broom are the classic pair. The yam deepam time begins at sunset, so it is later in western cities.

Families light the lamp at the yam deepam time before going out shopping. The yam deepam time is also observed by many on Narak Chaturdashi. The gold buying muhurat on Dhanteras is the busiest hour of the jewellery year.

Many buy a single coin in the gold buying muhurat on Dhanteras rather than jewellery. The gold buying muhurat on Dhanteras covers the whole of trayodashi, not just the evening.

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Dhanteras Today — Yes or No, and Until When

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Types of Dhanteras — the Weekday Decides

Types of Dhanteras are named from the weekday the period begins: Sunday Roga, Monday Raja, Tuesday Agni, Friday Chora and Saturday Mrityu, with Wednesday and Thursday unnamed. The timeline colours each period by its type so the serious ones stand out.

Dhanteras Rules What Not to Do — the Five Classical Restrictions

Dhanteras rules what not to do come down to five things: laying a roof, gathering wood or fuel, making a bed, travelling south, and a cremation without Dhanteras shanti. Daily work, office and most rituals continue as normal.

Mrityu Dhanteras — the One to Plan Around

Mrityu Dhanteras dates are those that begin on a Saturday - the type families take most seriously. Risky work, long journeys and new beginnings are best kept outside it.

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