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Today’s panchangall five angas with exact timesTithithe lunar day, and when it endsNakshatrathe Moon’s position todayHorathe planetary hour, all twenty-fourRahu kaalthe time to avoid starting new workChoghadiyaday and night, each split into eightFestivalsDiwali, Holi and 31 more, with the rule behind each date
Durga Ashtami
19 October 2026
The eighth night, and the one most widely kept of the nine.
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The dates
2026, 2027, 2028 · New Delhi202619 OctoberMonday
20277 OctoberThursday
202826 SeptemberTuesday
Durga Ashtami is Ashwina Shukla Ashtami — the Ashtami of the shukla fortnight of Ashwina. It is kept at sunrise, so the date is the day that tithi is running the tithi that is running when the sun comes up.
Computed from the Moon’s elongation with the Swiss Ephemeris, sidereal, Lahiri ayanamsa. A tithi begins and ends at a real minute rather than at midnight, which is why the moment above decides the day — and why the same tithi read at a different hour can name a different date.
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Every festival
33 dated the same wayPausha Purnima3 JanuarySakat Chauth6 JanuaryMauni Amavasya18 JanuaryVasant Panchami23 JanuaryRatha Saptami25 JanuaryMagha Purnima1 FebruaryMaha Shivaratri15 FebruaryHolika Dahan2 MarchHoli3 MarchGudi Padwa19 MarchRam Navami26 MarchHanuman Jayanti2 AprilAkshaya Tritiya19 AprilSita Navami25 AprilNarasimha Jayanti30 AprilBuddha Purnima1 MayJagannath Rath Yatra16 JulyGuru Purnima29 JulyHariyali Teej15 AugustNag Panchami17 AugustRaksha Bandhan28 AugustKrishna Janmashtami4 SeptemberGanesh Chaturthi14 SeptemberAnant Chaturdashi25 SeptemberSharad Navratri11 OctoberDurga Ashtami19 OctoberDussehra20 OctoberSharad Purnima25 OctoberKarva Chauth29 OctoberDhanteras6 NovemberDiwali8 NovemberGovardhan Puja9 NovemberBhai Dooj10 November
A festival is the same day for everybody. Your chart is not.
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