Durga Ashtami 2026 Mon 19 Oct
Festival · 30 cities, each on its own sunrise and sunset, in its own time
When is Durga Ashtami 2026?
Monday 19 October
Ashwina Shukla Ashtami
Durga Ashtami Sunrise: what time?
Durga Ashtami in 30 cities
Times in each city’s own zone.
India
Nepal
Gulf
South-East Asia
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Durga Ashtami 2026 by state and country
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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 Durga Ashtami on Mon 19 Oct?
In New Delhi
Durga Ashtami is on Mon 19 Oct: Ashtami holds sunrise that day.
Sunrise at 06:23 is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 08:28. Ashtami: 08:28 to 10:52 Mon.
Ashtami at sunrise, 06:24. Ashtami: 08:28 Sun to 10:52.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Line: Sunrise. Light strip: day; dark strip: night.
Durga Ashtami follows the tithi at sunrise. Ashtami runs from 08:28 on Sun 18 Oct to 10:52 on Mon 19 Oct, so it holds sunrise only on Mon 19 Oct, at 06:24. No text giving Durga Ashtami’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Ashwina Shukla Ashtami
Durga Ashtami follows the tithi at sunrise.
- Smarta
- the day Ashtami holds at sunrise: 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.