Janmashtami 2026 in Derbendîxan, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq Thu 3 Sep or Fri 4 Sep
Festival · times in UTC+3
When is Janmashtami 2026 in Derbendîxan?
Smarta
Thursday 3 September
Vaishnava
Friday 4 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Thu 3 Sep in DerbendîxanJanmashtami Nishita puja muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Thursday 3 September
Vaishnava · Friday 4 September
Why is Janmashtami on Thu 3 Sep or Fri 4 Sep in Derbendîxan?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Thu 3 Sep: Ashtami touches nishitha that night, and no other.
Saptami until 23:55, inside nishitha; then Ashtami. Ashtami: 23:55 to 21:44 Fri.
Ashtami ended at 21:44; nishitha is Navami. Ashtami: 23:55 Thu to 21:44.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+3). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 23:55 on Thu 3 Sep to 21:44 on Fri 4 Sep, so it touches only Thursday night’s nishitha (23:34–00:19 Fri).
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Fri 4 Sep, at 05:31. 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.