August 2026 Panchang Calendar — New Delhi
Every tithi and nakshatra below is the one in force at New Delhi's own sunrise on that date — Dilli sits at 77.21°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 | Shravana–Bhadrapada |
| Earliest sunrise | 05:43 |
| Latest sunrise | 05:59 |
| Longest day | 810 minutes |
| Shortest day | 766 minutes |
| Ekadashi days | 2 |
| Purnima / Amavasya | 1 / 1 |
| Mornings whose tithi differs from New Delhi | 0 |
Sunrise in New Delhi moves from 05:43 on the 1st to 05:59 on the 31st, and sunset from 19:12 to 18:44 — the day shortens by 44 minutes across August, which drags every kaal window and every Choghadiya slot with it.
New Delhi is the reference city the other calendars on this site are measured against, so the divergence count below is zero by definition here; on the New Delhi page it is the other cities that move.
The two times under each date are that morning's sunrise at New Delhi 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.
The calendars that fold into this one
Gurgaon and Noida sit close enough to New Delhi that the sky over them is the same sky: across the 365 mornings of the year sunrise differs by at most 66 seconds, and on 364 of those 365 mornings the tithi and nakshatra standing at the two sunrises were the same — they part on 1 morning of the year, when a boundary happens to fall in the seconds between the two dawns. Those pages are published for people who search by their own city's name, and each is canonicalised to this one rather than competing with it.
Every other city on this site diverges from New Delhi by more than that, which is why each of them gets a calendar of its own instead.
Observances in August 2026
| Date | Observance | Tithi it is fixed to | What the day is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August | Kamika Ekadashi | Shravana Krishna Ekadashi | The first ekadashi of the Kanwar month; the walkers time their arrival by it. |
| 12 August | Hariyali Amavasya | Shravana Krishna Amavasya | The green new moon of the monsoon; tree-planting and Yamuna bathing across Braj. |
| 15 August | Hariyali Teej | Shravana Shukla Tritiya | The Shravan third; Jaipur's Teej procession leaves the City Palace on it. |
| 17 August | Nag Panchami | Shravana Shukla Panchami | The serpent fifth; Nagpur's Nagoba temple keeps the district's largest queue for it. |
| 23 August | Putrada Ekadashi | Shravana Shukla Ekadashi | Pavitropana ekadashi, kept in Shravan's bright fortnight. |
| 28 August | Raksha Bandhan | Shravana Shukla Purnima | Shravan Purnima; the thread is tied outside the Bhadra karana, which this site computes and flags. |
| 31 August | Kajari Teej | Bhadrapada Krishna Tritiya | The dark-fortnight teej of eastern UP and Bundelkhand, a fortnight after Hariyali Teej. |
Why the month is named what it is here
This page labels the lunar month for Delhi by the purnimanta convention — the month turns over at the full moon, so the fortnight after Purnima already carries the next month's name. That is the convention almost every printed North Indian almanac uses, and because Delhi's meridian is the one most of those almanacs are typeset for, the month name here will match the pothi on a Delhi puja room shelf. A Pune or Bengaluru panchang, working amanta, will print a different month name for the same krishna-paksha night while agreeing with this page to the minute on the tithi.
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 New Delhi 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.