Janmashtami 2026 in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States Thu 3 Sep or Fri 4 Sep
Festival · times in EDT
When is Janmashtami 2026 in Hackensack?
Smarta
Thursday 3 September
Vaishnava
Friday 4 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
Full panchang for Thu 3 Sep in HackensackJanmashtami 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 Hackensack?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Thu 3 Sep: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:33 Fri–01:17 Fri. Ashtami: 16:55 to 14:44 Fri.
Ashtami ended at 14:44; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC−4). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 16:55 on Thu 3 Sep to 14:44 on Fri 4 Sep, so only Thursday night’s nishitha (00:33 Fri–01:17 Fri) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Fri 4 Sep, at 06:25. 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.