Chhath 2028 Mon 23 Oct
Sandhya arghya in New Delhi: 17:43 IST
Festival · 30 cities, each on its own sunrise and sunset, in its own time
When is Chhath 2028?
Monday 23 October
Kartika Shukla Shashthi
Chhath Sandhya arghya: what time?
Chhath timings: sandhya arghya, usha arghya
New Delhi · IST
- Monday 23 October
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17:43Sandhya arghyaat sunset · Tithika’s convention
- Tuesday 24 October
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06:27Usha arghyaat sunrise · Tithika’s convention
Chhath Sandhya arghya in 30 cities
Times in each city’s own zone.
India
Nepal
Gulf
South-East Asia
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Opens Chhath · Sandhya Arghya 2028 for that place
Chhath 2028 by state and country
Each opens Chhath 2028 there: the date and each city’s Sandhya arghya.
States and territories of India
- Andaman and Nicobar
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chhattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- West Bengal
Countries
Why is Chhath celebrated? The katha
Chhath is the festival of the Sun on the sixth day of Kartika's bright half: those who keep it fast, stand in water and offer arghya to the setting sun and then the rising one, mostly in Bihar and the east of Uttar Pradesh.
Chhath honours Surya, the Sun, as the giver of life and health. No single katha belongs to it; the Mahabharata gives one of the stories behind worshipping the Sun from the water.
When the Pandavas went into exile in the forest, many brahmins followed them, and Yudhishthira had no food to give them. On his priest Dhaumya's advice he stood in water and praised Surya with a hymn of his many names. The hymn says that whoever worships the Sun on the sixth or the seventh lunar day wins Lakshmi's grace.
Surya appeared and gave Yudhishthira a copper vessel. Whatever was cooked in it would never run out until Draupadi had eaten, so for the twelve years of exile no guest left the Pandavas hungry.
Sources: The Mahabharata, Vana Parva, tr. K. M. Ganguli (P. C. Roy, 1884), § III; G. A. Grierson, Bihar Peasant Life (1885), § 1442
Chhath puja vidhi and samagri
Chhath is kept over four days. Those who keep it bathe and eat one pure meal on the first day, fast on the second until an evening meal of kheer, and on the third evening stand in a river or pond to offer arghya of milk and water to the setting Sun, with thekua, fruit and sugarcane carried in bamboo baskets. Before dawn on the fourth day the arghya is offered to the rising Sun, and the fast is broken with the prasad. The Mahabharata's hymn to Surya promises Lakshmi's grace to those who worship the Sun on the sixth or the seventh lunar day.
New Delhi · IST
Sources: Incredible India (Ministry of Tourism), Chhath Puja, the four days; G. A. Grierson, Bihar Peasant Life (1885), § 1442; The Mahabharata, Vana Parva, tr. K. M. Ganguli (P. C. Roy, 1884), § III
Chhath fasting rules
The long fast of Chhath is kept from the evening of kharna, after the kheer, until the arghya to the rising Sun on the fourth morning, and most who keep it take no water in that time. Those who cannot keep the whole fast share in the arghyas and the prasad, and each family decides who keeps it.
New Delhi · IST
Sources: Incredible India (Ministry of Tourism), Chhath Puja, the four days
Why is Chhath on Mon 23 Oct?
In New Delhi
Chhath · Sandhya Arghya is on Mon 23 Oct: Shashthi holds sunset that evening.
Sunset at 17:44 is Panchami; Shashthi begins at 20:54.
Shashthi at sunset, 17:43. Shashthi: 20:54 Sun to 20:53.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Line: Sunset. Light strip: day; dark strip: night.
The evening arghya is offered at sunset. Shashthi runs from 20:54 on Sun 22 Oct to 20:53 on Mon 23 Oct, so it holds sunset only on Mon 23 Oct, at 17:43. No text giving Chhath · Sandhya Arghya’s time was found; sunset is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Kartika Shukla Shashthi
The evening arghya is offered at sunset.
- Smarta
- the evening whose sunset Shashthi holds: Tithika’s convention, since no text gives the time.
- Vaishnava
- the Smarta day.
Each city’s date and times are worked out at its own sunrise and sunset; each city’s page draws the reason.