Rama Navami 2026 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 26 Mar or Fri 27 Mar
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Rama Navami 2026 in Pāthardi?
Smarta
Thursday 26 March
Vaishnava
Friday 27 March
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Full panchang for Thu 26 Mar in PāthardiRama Navami madhyahna muhurat: what time?
Smarta · Thursday 26 March
Vaishnava · Friday 27 March
Why is Rama Navami on Thu 26 Mar or Fri 27 Mar in Pāthardi?
Smarta · Rama Navami is on Thu 26 Mar: Navami touches madhyahna that day, and no other.
Ashtami until 11:49, inside madhyahna; then Navami. Navami: 11:49 to 10:07 Fri.
Navami ended at 10:07; madhyahna is Dashami. Navami: 11:49 Thu to 10:07.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Madhyahna. Light strip: day; dark strip: night.
Rama’s birth is celebrated at madhyahna, the middle fifth of the day. Navami runs from 11:49 on Thu 26 Mar to 10:07 on Fri 27 Mar, so it touches only Thursday’s madhyahna (11:21–13:48).
Vaishnavas keep Rama Navami on a tithi that Ashtami does not pierce: Navami holds sunrise on Fri 27 Mar, at 06:27. Reading the Vaishnava rule by sunrise is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Chaitra Shukla Navami
Rama’s birth is celebrated at madhyahna, the middle fifth of the day.
- Smarta
- the day whose madhyahna Navami holds; when it touches both or neither, the later (Dharmasindhu).
- Vaishnava
- a Navami that Ashtami does not pierce, read at sunrise: Tithika’s convention.