Chhath Puja 2026

Chhath Puja falls on Sunday, 15 November 2026 (New Delhi).

Chhath Puja, Kartika Shukla Shashthi, is the Sun festival of Bihar, Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh. Devotees fast and offer arghya to the setting Sun on Shashthi and to the rising Sun the next morning, standing in rivers or ponds.

Dates

How the date is set

It is kept in the lunar month of Kartika, Shukla paksha Shashthi, on the day of the tithi prevailing at sunrise (udaya tithi).

Lunar months here are amanta (new moon to new moon); in the purnimanta reckoning used in much of North India, the Krishna paksha belongs to the next month. Communities follow their own rules for some festivals, so a local almanac may keep a few on a neighbouring day.

Dates are computed with this site's panchang (Lahiri ayanamsa) for New Delhi. Times of sunrise and the tithi differ by place, so a date can shift by a day for cities far from Delhi; the calendar pages recalculate for your city. All festivals →