Karwa Chauth 2026 — Date, Moonrise Time City Wise and Puja Muhurat

Karwa Chauth 2026 date: 29 October 2026, Thursday.

Karwa Chauth moonrise time in Delhi: 8:12 PM. The Karwa Chauth moon time for Mumbai is 8:56 PM. Karwa Chauth moonrise time in Kolkata: 7:42 PM. The Karwa Chauth moon time for Chennai is 8:39 PM. Karwa Chauth moonrise time in Bengaluru: 8:51 PM. The Karwa Chauth moon time for Hyderabad is 8:37 PM. Karwa Chauth moonrise time in Ahmedabad: 8:47 PM. The Karwa Chauth moon time for Pune is 8:53 PM. Karwa Chauth moonrise time in Jaipur: 8:23 PM. The Karwa Chauth moon time for Lucknow is 8:01 PM. Karwa Chauth moonrise time in Kanpur: 8:05 PM. The Karwa Chauth moon time for Patna is 7:48 PM.

The Karwa Chauth 2026 date is fixed by the Moon rather than the calendar. The fast falls on the fourth day of the waning Moon in Kartik - krishna paksha chaturthi - which lands in October or early November. The live card above gives the date, the exact minutes the chaturthi tithi begins and ends, and the Karwa Chauth moonrise time for your city.

The shape of the day barely changes across regions. Sargi is eaten before dawn, the fast runs from sunrise until the Moon is sighted, the katha is heard during the Karwa Chauth puja muhurat, and the fast ends when the Moon is seen through a sieve and water is taken from the husband's hand.

Because the Karwa Chauth 2026 date depends on which day the chaturthi tithi holds at moonrise, printed calendars occasionally disagree by a day. The rule used here is the classical one: the day on which chaturthi prevails when the Moon rises, falling back to the day it prevails at sunrise when the tithi does not reach moonrise at all. The tithi timings are shown so you can check the reasoning yourself.

The most searched detail of the festival is the Karwa Chauth moonrise time, and it genuinely differs from city to city. The Moon rises first in the east, so Kolkata and Patna see it well before Mumbai or Ahmedabad, and latitude shifts it again, which is why Chandigarh and Chennai rarely agree.

The table gives the Karwa Chauth moonrise time for twenty cities, each computed from that city's own coordinates rather than shifted from a Delhi figure. The spread between the earliest and latest city is usually close to an hour.

A practical note on the Karwa Chauth moon time: the computed figure is the moment the Moon's upper edge clears a flat horizon. In a city, buildings and haze usually delay the actual sighting by ten to twenty minutes, so be ready at the computed time and patient afterwards. When cloud hides the Moon entirely, tradition allows the fast to be broken at the computed Karwa Chauth moon time after an offering towards its direction.

If you are travelling on the day, look up the Karwa Chauth moonrise time for the city you will actually be in. Moving three or four hundred kilometres east or west shifts it by ten to fifteen minutes.

Sargi is the pre-dawn meal given by the mother-in-law, and it has to be finished before sunrise, since the fast begins with the Sun. The Karwa Chauth sargi time shown above covers the last ninety minutes before sunrise for your city - the brahma muhurat window most families use.

A traditional sargi plate carries mathri, pheni or sevaiyan cooked in milk, dry fruit, fresh fruit, coconut water and a sweet. The idea is sustained energy through a day without water, so slow-release food works better than a heavy meal, and many families add a glass of milk or lassi.

With the food comes the shringar - bangles, sindoor, a new outfit, and often mehendi applied the evening before. Where the mother-in-law lives away, the sargi is sent ahead, or the bride's own mother sends it.

A caution doctors repeat every year: finish eating a little before the Karwa Chauth sargi time runs out rather than at the last minute, drink enough water, and avoid salty or fried food, which makes a day without water noticeably harder.

The puja is performed after sunset and before moonrise, and the Karwa Chauth puja muhurat above gives that window for your city. It is computed from your own sunset, so it shifts by several minutes even between neighbouring cities.

Women usually gather in a group with their karwas - small earthen or metal pots filled with water or grain - and a thali holding a diya, roli, rice, sweets and the sieve. The katha is read, most often the story of Veeravati, and the karwas are passed around the circle seven times while the phera song is sung.

Gauri, Shiva, Ganesha and Kartikeya are worshipped together as the divine family; in many homes a picture of Karwa Mata is drawn on the wall or placed on the altar. The Karwa Chauth puja muhurat is the window for this worship, not for breaking the fast - that waits for the Moon.

After the puja, the time until moonrise is spent waiting, and the Karwa Chauth moonrise time in the table tells you exactly how long that will be.

The Karwa Chauth vrat vidhi varies in small details between Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, but the sequence is the same everywhere.

1. Sargi before sunrise. Eat, bathe, and take the sankalp - the resolution to keep the fast - facing east.

2. The day. No food or water until moonrise in the nirjala form. Many women spend the day on mehendi, rest and preparing the puja thali.

3. The evening puja. Inside the muhurat, worship Gauri and the divine family, hear the katha, and exchange karwas.

4. Moon sighting. At moonrise, offer water to the Moon from the karwa, look at the Moon through a sieve, then at your husband's face through the same sieve.

5. Breaking the fast. The husband gives the first sip of water and the first bite of food, and a proper meal follows.

The Karwa Chauth vrat vidhi also allows a lighter form. Pregnant women, the ill and anyone on medication can keep the fast with water and fruit, and every tradition accepts that without any loss of the vrat's meaning. After the puja, the karwa itself is given to the mother-in-law or a married elder.

The festival grew up in the north-west of India, where it once marked the start of the rabi sowing season and the time when men left for long campaigns. The karwa - the small pot - was originally filled with wheat, and exchanging it among women was as much about friendship and support as about ritual.

The stories attached to it all turn on devotion rewarded. Veeravati breaks her fast early when her brothers trick her with a false moon, and loses her husband until she keeps the fast properly a year later. Savitri's refusal to let Yama take Satyavan is often told alongside it.

Modern practice has widened. Many husbands now fast alongside their wives, unmarried women keep it for a hoped-for partner, and in cities the evening puja is often held in housing societies with dozens of women together. What has not changed is the shape of the day - the pre-dawn meal, the long fast, the evening gathering and the wait for the Moon.

1. The tithi. The Moon's elongation from the Sun is tracked with the Swiss Ephemeris; the chaturthi of Kartik krishna paksha is found to the minute.

2. The day. The day on which chaturthi prevails at moonrise is chosen, with the udaya rule as the fallback.

3. Moonrise. The Moon's altitude is tracked for each city's latitude and longitude until its upper edge clears the horizon, giving the moonrise to the minute.

4. Puja and sargi windows. Both are computed from that city's own sunset and sunrise.

Families in the north note the Karwa Chauth 2026 date weeks ahead to plan sargi and leave from work. The Karwa Chauth 2026 date is also the day jewellers and mehendi artists book out earliest. Housing societies usually fix the group katha inside the Karwa Chauth puja muhurat so every woman can join.

The Karwa Chauth puja muhurat opens at sunset and is not tied to moonrise. If the Karwa Chauth puja muhurat clashes with work, the katha can be heard any time after sunset before moonrise. Set an alarm for the start of the Karwa Chauth sargi time rather than the end, so nothing is rushed.

The Karwa Chauth sargi time ends with sunrise, not at a fixed clock hour. Mothers-in-law who live far away send the sargi a day ahead so it is ready at the Karwa Chauth sargi time. Working women often wake early to finish sargi well inside the Karwa Chauth sargi time.

The Karwa Chauth vrat vidhi is simple enough to follow at home without a priest. Newly married women usually learn the Karwa Chauth vrat vidhi from their mother-in-law on the first year. Every regional version of the Karwa Chauth vrat vidhi keeps the sieve, the karwa and the offering to the Moon.

Some families add a Shiva-Parvati aarti to the Karwa Chauth vrat vidhi after the katha. The Karwa Chauth moon time in hill cities can be later than the plains because ridges block the eastern horizon.

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