Janmashtami 2026 in Lib, Lib Island, Marshall Islands Fri 4 Sep or Sat 5 Sep
Festival · times in UTC+12
When is Janmashtami 2026 in Lib?
Smarta
Friday 4 September
Vaishnava
Saturday 5 September
Bhadrapada Krishna Ashtami (purnimanta) · Shravana Krishna Ashtami (amanta)
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Smarta · Friday 4 September
Vaishnava · Saturday 5 September
Why is Janmashtami on Fri 4 Sep or Sat 5 Sep in Lib?
Smarta · Janmashtami is on Fri 4 Sep: Ashtami holds all of nishitha that night, and no other.
Nishitha is Saptami; Ashtami begins at 08:55 Fri.
Ashtami holds all of nishitha, 00:25 Sat–01:12 Sat. Ashtami: 08:55 to 06:44 Sat.
Ashtami ended at 06:44; nishitha is Navami.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+12). Band: the tithi. Box: Nishitha. Dark strip: night.
Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 08:55 on Fri 4 Sep to 06:44 on Sat 5 Sep, so only Friday night’s nishitha (00:25 Sat–01:12 Sat) falls within it.
Vaishnavas keep Janmashtami on a tithi that Saptami does not pierce: Ashtami holds sunrise on Sat 5 Sep, at 06:41. 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.