Janmashtami 2025 in Hetauda, Bagmati Province, Nepal Fri 15 Aug or Sat 16 Aug
Festival · times in UTC+5:45
When is Janmashtami 2025 in Hetauda?
Smarta
Friday 15 August
Vaishnava
Saturday 16 August
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Fri 15 Aug in HetaudaJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Friday 15 August
Vaishnava · Saturday 16 August
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 15 Aug or Sat 16 Aug in Hetauda?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 15 Aug: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 00:05 Sat, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 00:05 Sat to 21:50 Sat.
Ashtami ended at 21:50; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 00:05 to 21:50.
One row per day, on one clock (NPT). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 00:05 on Sat 16 Aug to 21:50 on Sat 16 Aug, so it touches only Friday night’s nishitha (23:47–00:31 Sat).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 16 Aug, at 05:36. Reading the Vaishnava rule by sunrise is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta.
- Smarta
- the night whose nishitha Ashtami holds; when it touches both or neither, the later (Dharmasindhu).
- Vaishnava
- a Ashtami that Saptami does not pierce, read at sunrise: Tithika’s convention.