October 2026 Panchang Calendar — Bhubaneswar
Every tithi and nakshatra below is the one in force at Bhubaneswar's own sunrise on that date — Ekamra Kshetra sits at 85.82°E, so a day can carry a different tithi here than in a calendar computed for another meridian when a boundary falls near dawn. The lunar month is labelled by the purnimanta convention this city uses.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Lunar months spanned | Ashwin–Kartika |
| Earliest sunrise | 05:38 |
| Latest sunrise | 05:48 |
| Longest day | 718 minutes |
| Shortest day | 685 minutes |
| Ekadashi days | 2 |
| Purnima / Amavasya | 1 / 1 |
| Mornings whose tithi differs from New Delhi | 1 |
Sunrise in Bhubaneswar moves from 05:38 on the 1st to 05:48 on the 31st, and sunset from 17:35 to 17:13 — the day shortens by 33 minutes across October, which drags every kaal window and every Choghadiya slot with it.
On 1 of the 31 mornings this month, the tithi standing at Bhubaneswar's sunrise is NOT the one standing at New Delhi's — a boundary falls between the two dawns. That is the whole reason this page is computed separately rather than reprinted.
The two times under each date are that morning's sunrise at Bhubaneswar and the start of that day's Rahu Kaal, which is the eighth of real daylight assigned to Rahu on that weekday. Both move with the city, not just with the date: they are what a calendar computed for another meridian gets wrong even on the days it agrees about the tithi.
How far the nearest other sky is
Of the other cities computed on this site, the closest to Bhubaneswar by sunrise is Kolkata, 365 km away, where sunrise runs up to 14.9 minutes from this one. Over the 365 mornings behind this calendar the tithi differs on 3 of them — a boundary falling between the two dawns. That is a small number and it is the whole argument: on those mornings a calendar reprinted from Kolkata would be wrong here, and there is no way to know which mornings without computing both.
Everything on this page is read at Bhubaneswar's own sunrise, from its own coordinates — 20.30°N 85.82°E — so it is not the nearest city's calendar with a name changed on it.
Observances in October 2026
| Date | Observance | Tithi it is fixed to | What the day is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 October | Indira Ekadashi | Ashwin Krishna Ekadashi | One of the twenty-four named ekadashis; the fast runs from this sunrise to the parana window after the next. |
| 10 October | Mahalaya Amavasya | Ashwin Krishna Amavasya | Sarvapitri Amavasya — the close of Pitru Paksha, and the day Bengal begins Durga Puja's countdown. |
| 11 October | Sharad Navratri begins | Ashwin Shukla Pratipada | Ghatasthapana; the nine nights run to Navami and close on Vijayadashami. |
| 19 October | Durga Ashtami | Ashwin Shukla Ashtami | Sandhi Puja sits in the forty-eight minutes straddling the Ashtami–Navami boundary computed on this site. |
| 21 October | Vijayadashami | Ashwin Shukla Dashami | Dussehra; Mysuru's jamboo savari leaves the palace on a muhurta of a few minutes within it. |
| 22 October | Papankusha Ekadashi | Ashwin Shukla Ekadashi | One of the twenty-four named ekadashis; the fast runs from this sunrise to the parana window after the next. |
| 26 October | Sharad Purnima | Ashwin Shukla Purnima | The brightest full moon of the year; Surat eats ghari on the day after it. |
Why the month is named what it is here
Odisha dates its civil year solar, from Pana Sankranti at the Sun's Mesha ingress, while its temple observance runs on tithi and nakshatra. This page labels the lunar month by the purnimanta convention; an Odia panji will give you a solar date for the same night. The tithi and its end time, which is what decides a temple's ritual sequence, are the same document in either.
How a festival lands on a date
None of the dates above is stored. Each observance is held here as the rule that defines it — a lunar month, a fortnight and a tithi — and resolved against the computed panchang for Bhubaneswar each time this calendar is rebuilt, which is why the same festival moves through the Gregorian year and why two adjacent cities can differ by a day. The lunar month name follows the purnimanta reckoning; the intercalary adhika masa, which repeats a month name roughly every thirty-two months, is detected and its festivals are attributed to the regular month rather than the leap one.
A day is marked by the tithi standing at sunrise. Observances that are settled at another moment — Janmashtami at midnight, Diwali at pradosh, Ahoi Ashtami at starrise — can therefore be announced by a temple one day either side of the marker here, and the table above says so where it applies. Solar festivals such as Makar Sankranti are keyed to the Sun's ingress instead, which is why they barely move.