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Diwali dates
Computed year by year from the Moon and the Sun. Each row shows the tithi the festival sits on and the lunar month in both the amanta and purnimanta reckonings, because the two name the same month differently during krishna paksha.
Also called: Deepavali, Lakshmi Puja, Badi Diwali
The next one
Sunday, 8 November 2026
AmavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one., AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami.
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What the date is derived from, stated so you can check it.
The amavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one. that closes amantaThe reckoning in which a lunar month ends at the new Moon. Maharashtra, Gujarat and the south count this way, and our dates are computed in it. AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami., which every north Indian almanac names KartikaThe eighth lunar month, October into November, and the Diwali month. Karva Chauth, Dhanteras, Chhath and Kartika Purnima all fall in it. Amavasya. Lakshmi Puja is a pradoshThe stretch just after sunset, roughly an hour and a half of it. Diwali is fixed by the tithi running then, and the Trayodashi vrat is kept in it. rite, so the evening rather than the sunrise names the day, and that is the whole reason Diwali is sometimes reported on two different dates.
The day is settled by the tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. at pradoshThe stretch just after sunset, roughly an hour and a half of it. Diwali is fixed by the tithi running then, and the Trayodashi vrat is kept in it., just after sunset.
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Diwali dates
| Year | Date | TithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. | Lunar monthThe lunar month, named after the nakshatra the full Moon lands in. It is about twenty-nine and a half days, so it drifts against the English calendar. |
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| 2025Monday | Monday, 20 October 2025 | AmavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2026Sunday | Sunday, 8 November 2026 | AmavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2027Friday | Friday, 29 October 2027 | AmavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2028Tuesday | Tuesday, 17 October 2028 | AmavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2029Monday | Monday, 5 November 2029 | AmavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2030Saturday | Saturday, 26 October 2030 | AmavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
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