Festival countdown · 2026

Upcoming Hindu Festivals 2026

The Hindu festivals still ahead, counted from today. Every date is computed from our own panchang engine, run for the Ujjain reference meridian, and checked against the mainstream all-India almanac. For a full year laid out month by month, see the complete 2026 festival calendar.

Next up: Hartalika Teej on सप्टेंबर 13 (tomorrow). 17 सण बाकी in 2026. Full guide: Hartalika Teej: the story, the vrat rules, and how to do the pooja at home.

Upcoming festivals

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This hub shows only what is still ahead. For every major festival of 2026, arranged month by month with the reckoning behind each date, open the full calendar. For anything time-of-day sensitive, a wedding, a house-warming, the start of a venture, a date alone is not enough; those need a muhurat computed for your city.

Hindu Festivals 2026 calendar

The complete month-by-month list of 2026 festivals with dates and significance.

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Today's Panchang

The tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and vara for today, computed for your city.

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Auspicious windows in the next 60 days for marriage, griha pravesh, business and more.

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FAQ

When is Diwali in 2026?
Diwali falls on November 8, 2026, the Kartika amavasya, with the Lakshmi puja in the pradosh window that evening. The five-day sequence runs Dhanteras on November 6, Choti Diwali and Diwali on November 8, Govardhan Puja on November 9 and Bhai Dooj on November 11.
When is Holi in 2026?
Holi is played on March 4, 2026. Holika Dahan is lit the night before, on March 3, on the Phalguna full moon, and the colours follow the next morning.
Does 2026 have an adhik maas, and does it move any festivals?
Yes. 2026 carries an adhik Jyeshtha maas from about May 17 to June 15, an extra lunar month inserted to keep the lunar and solar calendars aligned. Purushottam maas hosts no major festivals, so the summer and autumn festivals sit roughly a lunar month later than a common year. That is why Guru Purnima is on July 29 and Raksha Bandhan on August 28 rather than a month earlier. Calendars that skip the adhik maas mis-date these festivals.
Where do these dates come from?
Each date is computed by our own panchang engine, run for the Ujjain reference meridian for every day of 2026, and then checked against the mainstream all-India almanac. The engine also detects the 2026 adhik maas. Where our sunrise reckoning and the classical day-selection rule for a festival differ by a day, we show the mainstream all-India date, since that is the one readers cross-check against.
Why do some sources list a festival one day apart from this calendar?
A Hindu festival is tied to a tithi, a lunar day that begins and ends at a fixed astronomical moment rather than at midnight. Whether that tithi is current at the ritual time, which can be sunrise, midday, evening or midnight depending on the festival, shifts with your longitude, so Chennai and Delhi can observe the same festival a day apart. This calendar uses the mainstream all-India reckoning; your local panchang is the authority for your own city.
How do I find an auspicious muhurat for a wedding or house-warming in 2026?
A festival date and a muhurat are not the same thing. A muhurat is a specific window scored on the five panchang limbs (tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, karana) for your event and your location, and the good window inside a day can be a couple of hours long. Use the muhurat calculators linked on this page; they compute the top windows for your city and, with a free account, factor your chart.

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