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Karva Chauth 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: Karaka Chaturthi, Karwa Chauth
The next one
Thursday, 29 October 2026
Krishna ChaturthiGanesha's tithi, the fourth of each half, kept as Sankashti and Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is also a Rikta tithi, so no wedding is set on it., 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.
Krishna ChaturthiGanesha's tithi, the fourth of each half, kept as Sankashti and Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is also a Rikta tithi, so no wedding is set on it. of 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., called KartikaThe eighth lunar month, October into November, and the Diwali month. Karva Chauth, Dhanteras, Chhath and Kartika Purnima all fall in it. Krishna Chaturthi in the north. The fast breaks at moonrise, so moonrise rather than sunrise settles the day.
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 moonrise.
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Karva Chauth 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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| 2025Friday | Friday, 10 October 2025 | Krishna ChaturthiGanesha's tithi, the fourth of each half, kept as Sankashti and Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is also a Rikta tithi, so no wedding is set on it.This tithi opens and closes between two deciding moments, so the rule does not settle the day on its own. The date given is the one holding most of the tithi. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2026Thursday | Thursday, 29 October 2026 | Krishna ChaturthiGanesha's tithi, the fourth of each half, kept as Sankashti and Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is also a Rikta tithi, so no wedding is set on it. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2027Monday | Monday, 18 October 2027 | Krishna ChaturthiGanesha's tithi, the fourth of each half, kept as Sankashti and Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is also a Rikta tithi, so no wedding is set on it. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2028Saturday | Saturday, 7 October 2028 | Krishna ChaturthiGanesha's tithi, the fourth of each half, kept as Sankashti and Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is also a Rikta tithi, so no wedding is set on it. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2029Friday | Friday, 26 October 2029 | Krishna ChaturthiGanesha's tithi, the fourth of each half, kept as Sankashti and Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is also a Rikta tithi, so no wedding is set on it. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
| 2030Tuesday | Tuesday, 15 October 2030 | Krishna ChaturthiGanesha's tithi, the fourth of each half, kept as Sankashti and Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is also a Rikta tithi, so no wedding is set on it. | AshwinaThe seventh lunar month, September into October. Sharad Navratri runs through its bright half and ends at Vijayadashami. |
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