This hindu festival calendar 2026 with dates computes every tithi for Indian Standard Time and prints the rule beside each festival. Every festival with the lunar day it is actually defined by, computed for your own sunrise. With the reason the dates move each year, when adhik maas falls, and why two cities can legitimately observe on different days.
Guna Milan reads both Sun charts — the birth-star, the sign and the quarter within it produce the eight tests and your total out of 36. Your own scores are in the free result above; the rule behind each one, and what it means day to day, is in the full report.
Diwali 2026 date: Sunday, 8 November 2026. Holi: Wednesday, 4 March 2026. This vrat tyohar list covers every major festival above; the purnima dates 2026 and ekadashi dates 2026 are marked in each month card. For the full vrat tyohar list of the next year, switch to the 2027 tab - and to check the Diwali 2026 date for your own city, use the calculator at the top.
Dates are computed for New Delhi from the Swiss Ephemeris and the classical tithi rules, and refresh automatically every day - including the next year's calendar. Use the calculator above for your own city.
Both Sun charts are read and each of the eight tests gets its own score out of 36 — with the rule that produced it printed beside it.
Manglik, Nadi and Bhakoot are checked for both of you — and every classical exception is computed on your own charts, never assumed.
Where a score came out low, you get the fix: what to do, what to avoid, and the dates when your chart support a wedding.
Your own scores are free, above. The rule behind each one, the exceptions, and the dated windows are in the full report.
Every year someone asks why Diwali is on a different date than last year. The answer is straightforward once you see it, and it explains almost everything else about this subject.
Hindu festivals are defined by tithi, not by calendar date.
A tithi is a lunar day: the time the Moon takes to gain twelve degrees on the Sun. Thirty of them make a lunar month, fifteen waxing (shukla paksha) and fifteen waning (krishna paksha).
And every festival is a tithi, not a date:
The Gregorian date is simply wherever that tithi happens to land. Nobody chose it, and it moves because the tithi moves.
Twelve lunar months come to about 354 days. A solar year is about 365. The lunar year is therefore roughly eleven days shorter.
So each year a festival falls about eleven days earlier against the Gregorian calendar than it did the year before. Diwali in late October one year, mid-October the next.
Left alone, that drift would keep going. In thirty-three years the gap would be a full year and Diwali would arrive in summer.
So roughly every third year, an extra lunar month is inserted. It is called adhik maas, also mala maas or purushottam maas.
It is a genuine calendrical correction, and the principle is the same as a leap year solving a different problem - a calendar built on one cycle being reconciled with another. Without it, the entire festival calendar would drift through the seasons.
The rule for which month gets doubled is not arbitrary either: an adhik maas occurs when a lunar month contains no solar ingress - no sankranti. That month is then repeated.
A tithi does not start at midnight and rarely lasts exactly one day.
Because the Moon's orbit is elliptical, its speed varies, and a tithi can run anywhere from about nineteen to twenty-six hours. So a tithi can begin one afternoon and end the next.
Which day gets the festival?
The usual rule is the tithi running at sunrise. But several festivals have their own rules - some go by the tithi at moonrise, some at a specific time of night, some require the tithi to be present at a particular moment. The Ekadashi vrat has its own conventions entirely, and there are separate observances (smarta and vaishnava) that can fall on different days.
And since sunrise differs by location, two cities can genuinely observe on different days.
That is not an error in one of the calendars. It is the rule working correctly in two places. A tithi that changes at 6:15 am is running at sunrise in one city and not in another two hundred kilometres west - and both are following the same rule.
There is a second regional difference, and it confuses people who move between regions.
Amanta reckoning ends a lunar month at the new moon. Purnimanta ends it at the full moon. Amanta is common in the south and west; purnimanta in the north.
The result is that the same day can sit in differently named months depending on where you are - the festival is the same, the tithi is the same, but a northerner and a southerner will name the month differently. Both conventions are internally consistent, and neither is a mistake.
We print both, because it is a common source of confusion and it costs nothing to clear up.
Most festival calendar pages reproduce a list made for one city - usually Delhi or Ujjain - and present it as the calendar.
That is fine most of the time and wrong some of the time, and the wrong times are exactly the ones people argue about. We compute the tithi for the coordinates you give, so the dates reflect your own sunrise.
And we print which tithi each festival is defined by, so you can see why the date falls where it does rather than taking it on trust.
Each one with its Gregorian date, the defining tithi, the paksha and the lunar month - plus the moment that tithi begins and ends for your own location.
The eleven-day gap between twelve lunar months and a solar year, how it accumulates, and where the festivals would end up without a correction.
The extra month inserted roughly every third year, the rule that decides which month is doubled - a lunar month with no solar ingress - and when the next one falls.
The sunrise rule, the festivals with rules of their own, and why two cities can legitimately observe on different days under the same rule.
The two month-naming conventions, where each is used, and how they shift which month a festival is said to fall in without changing the festival at all.
Twenty-four Ekadashis a year, Pradosh twice a month, Sankashti once - with the tithi behind each and why Ekadashi has conventions of its own.
What a copied almanac gets right, where it goes wrong, and why the wrong cases are exactly the ones families argue about.
Swiss Ephemeris + Lahiri ayanamsa — the same standard as traditional panchangs. Both Suns computed from real birth details and real coordinates, never guessed from a name.
Every score prints the classical rule that produced it, right beside the number. Any astrologer can check our working line by line.
A dosha is a signal to check, never a verdict on two people. We compute the classical exceptions on your own charts and state every remedy with its honest limit.
The Hindi report is written natively — not machine-translated. English and Hindi carry the same free tool depth, chapter for chapter.
Date, time and place — the Sun sign is the anchor, and time makes it certain.
Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri sidereal) tracks the Sun through the 12th, 1st and 2nd signs from your Sun — day-level, your chart checked together.
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This hindu festival calendar 2026 with dates answers the six questions people search most — vrat and tyohar list 2026, ekadashi dates 2026 list, purnima amavasya dates 2026, hindu calendar 2026 month wise, 2026 ke vrat tyohar — each with the rule behind it. The hindu festival calendar 2026 with dates above computes your own result free; the sections below explain what it means, and a hindu festival calendar 2026 with dates that shows its working is one you can check against any astrologer.
Hindu festival calendar 2026 with dates: Makar Sankranti on 14 Jan, Maha Shivratri on 15 Feb, Holi on 4 Mar, Ram Navami on 26 Mar, Raksha Bandhan on 28 Aug, Krishna Janmashtami on 4 Sep, Ganesh Chaturthi on 14 Sep, Sharad Navratri begins on 11 Oct, Dussehra on 20 Oct, Diwali on 8 Nov and Chhath Puja on 15 Nov. A hindu festival calendar 2026 with dates has to be computed, not copied, because every festival is fixed by a tithi (a lunar day) in a lunar month, and lunar months slide against the solar calendar by about eleven days a year, corrected by an extra month roughly every three years. That is why Diwali falls in October one year and November the next. This hindu festival calendar 2026 with dates computes each tithi for Indian Standard Time and prints the rule — Kartik amavasya, Chaitra shukla pratipada — beside every date.
Hindu calendar 2026 month wise: January - Lohri, Makar Sankranti, Vasant Panchami; February - Maha Shivratri; March - Holika Dahan, Holi, Chaitra Navratri begins; April - Hanuman Jayanti, Mesha Sankranti, Akshaya Tritiya; May - Buddha Purnima, Vat Savitri Vrat, Adhik Jyeshtha Maas begins; June - Nirjala Ekadashi, Vat Purnima; July - Jagannath Rath Yatra, Devshayani Ekadashi, Guru Purnima; August - Hariyali Teej, Nag Panchami, Raksha Bandhan; September - Krishna Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Hartalika Teej; October - Sarva Pitru Amavasya, Sharad Navratri begins, Durga Ashtami; November - Ahoi Ashtami, Dhanteras, Diwali; December - Vivah Panchami, Gita Jayanti, Dattatreya Jayanti. A vrat and tyohar list 2026 runs from Makar Sankranti in January through Holi, Ram Navami, Akshaya Tritiya, Guru Purnima, Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Navratri, Dussehra, Karva Chauth, Diwali, Chhath and the year's last ekadashis, with the recurring vrats — Pradosh, Sankashti Chaturthi, Masik Shivratri — between them. This vrat and tyohar list 2026 is laid out by month with the tithi, the lunar month and the paksha for each, so the pattern behind the dates is visible.
Ekadashi dates 2026 (24 in all): 14 Jan, 29 Jan, 13 Feb, 27 Feb, 15 Mar, 29 Mar, 13 Apr, 27 Apr, 13 May, 26 May, 11 Jun, 25 Jun, 10 Jul, 25 Jul, 9 Aug, 23 Aug, 7 Sep, 22 Sep, 6 Oct, 22 Oct, 5 Nov, 20 Nov, 4 Dec and 20 Dec. An ekadashi dates 2026 list has two ekadashis a month, one in each paksha, each with its own name and story: Putrada, Shattila, Jaya, Vijaya, Amalaki, Papmochani, Kamada, Varuthini, Mohini, Apara, Nirjala, Yogini, Devshayani, Kamika, Shravana Putrada, Aja, Parivartini, Indira, Papankusha, Rama, Devutthana, Utpanna, Mokshada, Saphala — and a twenty-fifth in an adhik month. This ekadashi dates 2026 list gives each with its date, the parana (fast-breaking) window the next morning, and the note when two ekadashis fall on consecutive days (smarta and vaishnava).
Purnima dates 2026: 3 Jan, 1 Feb, 3 Mar, 2 Apr, 1 May, 31 May, 29 Jun, 29 Jul, 28 Aug, 26 Sep, 26 Oct, 24 Nov and 23 Dec. Amavasya dates 2026: 18 Jan, 17 Feb, 19 Mar, 17 Apr, 16 May, 15 Jun, 14 Jul, 12 Aug, 11 Sep, 10 Oct, 9 Nov and 8 Dec. Purnima amavasya dates 2026 mark the full and new Moons that structure the lunar month: purnima ends the shukla paksha and is the day of Satyanarayan katha, Guru Purnima, Sharad Purnima and Kartik Purnima; amavasya ends the krishna paksha and carries Diwali, Mahalaya, Somvati amavasya when it falls on a Monday, and the ancestor rites. Purnima amavasya dates 2026 on this page are given with the exact tithi start and end times, because a tithi that ends at noon changes which day the observance falls on.
Hindu calendar 2026 month wise: January - Lohri, Makar Sankranti, Vasant Panchami; February - Maha Shivratri; March - Holika Dahan, Holi, Chaitra Navratri begins; April - Hanuman Jayanti, Mesha Sankranti, Akshaya Tritiya; May - Buddha Purnima, Vat Savitri Vrat, Adhik Jyeshtha Maas begins; June - Nirjala Ekadashi, Vat Purnima; July - Jagannath Rath Yatra, Devshayani Ekadashi, Guru Purnima; August - Hariyali Teej, Nag Panchami, Raksha Bandhan; September - Krishna Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Hartalika Teej; October - Sarva Pitru Amavasya, Sharad Navratri begins, Durga Ashtami; November - Ahoi Ashtami, Dhanteras, Diwali; December - Vivah Panchami, Gita Jayanti, Dattatreya Jayanti. A hindu calendar 2026 month wise view shows the twelve lunar months — Chaitra, Vaishakh, Jyeshtha, Ashadh, Shravan, Bhadrapad, Ashwin, Kartik, Margashirsha, Paush, Magh, Phalgun — laid over January to December, with the purnimanta and amanta systems both marked, since North India ends the month at purnima and the South and West at amavasya. This hindu calendar 2026 month wise page shows which lunar month each festival belongs to, and whether 2026 carries an adhik (extra) month.
Vrat tyohar list 2026 - main festivals: Makar Sankranti on 14 Jan, Maha Shivratri on 15 Feb, Holi on 4 Mar, Ram Navami on 26 Mar, Raksha Bandhan on 28 Aug, Krishna Janmashtami on 4 Sep, Ganesh Chaturthi on 14 Sep, Sharad Navratri begins on 11 Oct, Dussehra on 20 Oct, Diwali on 8 Nov and Chhath Puja on 15 Nov. 2026 ke vrat tyohar are the same festivals every Indian family keeps, and the only question is the day: a vrat is kept on the day the tithi is present at sunrise (udaya tithi) in most traditions, and at moonrise or midnight for a few (Karva Chauth, Janmashtami). 2026 ke vrat tyohar on this page follow those rules for Indian Standard Time, and the date is printed with the tithi's start and end so a family that follows a different rule can choose its own day.
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