October 2026 Panchang Calendar — Rishikesh
Every tithi and nakshatra below is the one in force at Rishikesh's own sunrise on that date — Tapovan sits at 78.27°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 | 06:10 |
| Latest sunrise | 06:30 |
| Longest day | 713 minutes |
| Shortest day | 661 minutes |
| Ekadashi days | 2 |
| Purnima / Amavasya | 1 / 1 |
| Mornings whose tithi differs from New Delhi | 0 |
Sunrise in Rishikesh moves from 06:10 on the 1st to 06:30 on the 31st, and sunset from 18:03 to 17:31 — the day shortens by 52 minutes across October, which drags every kaal window and every Choghadiya slot with it.
On none of the 31 mornings this month does the tithi at Rishikesh's sunrise differ from the one at New Delhi's — every boundary this month happens to fall clear of both dawns.
The two times under each date are that morning's sunrise at Rishikesh 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
Haridwar sit close enough to Rishikesh that the sky over them is the same sky: across the 365 mornings of the year sunrise differs by at most 46 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 Rishikesh by more than that, which is why each of them gets a calendar of its own instead.
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
Garhwal reads the month purnimanta. Rishikesh has one calendar habit the plains do not share: the Char Dham portals open and close on dates announced from the temples themselves — Akshaya Tritiya for Yamunotri and Gangotri, Bhai Dooj for the closing — so the town's season is bracketed by two tithis and the whole tourism economy moves with them.
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 Rishikesh 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.