Labh Panchami 2026 Date: Labh Pancham After Bestu Varas

Labh Panchami 2026 — Labh Pancham in Gujarati speech, Saubhagya Panchami in many printed calendars — is Saturday 14 November 2026. It is the fifth tithi of the bright half of Kartika, and this year there is nothing to adjudicate: the tithi holds the one sunrise of the 14th and keeps hold of that day until well after dark. What makes the day worth a page is not the date but where it sits, at the far end of the Gujarati new-year holiday and on the eve of Chhath.

What the Name Says (लाभ पंचमी)

Labh is the ordinary word for gain in Gujarati and Hindi, from the Sanskrit lābha, and Saubhagya is good fortune. Both names are names: they describe what the trading households of Gujarat have made of the date, a ceremonial restart of the working year, and this page reads them that way. It does not forecast a gain for anyone who keeps the day, and nothing in the panchang figures below is a reason to open, close or price anything.

The Panchami Covers the 14th Whole

The Kartika Shukla Panchami opens at 20:42 on Friday 13 November 2026, more than three hours after that evening’s sunset at 17:28. It closes at 23:24 on Saturday 14 November 2026, which is also the instant the next tithi, the Shashthi, begins in the site’s festival table. The opening minute is not in that table: it is computed with the site’s own lunar code, which agrees with the generated tables to within 1 minute on the 86 tithi instants where both exist.

Set the mornings beside each other and the answer is plain. Sunrise on the 13th (06:41 at New Delhi) still belongs to Shukla Chaturthi. Sunrise on the 14th (06:42) belongs to Shukla Panchami, and so does sunset (17:28), with the tithi running on for more than five hours after it. By sunrise on the 15th the daily table has moved to Shukla Shashthi.

A Panchami that owned two sunrises, or none, would leave room for calendars to differ. This one owns exactly one, and owns the daylight around it as well, so a calendar that fixes the day by sunrise, one that looks at midday and one that looks at the evening all land on the same Saturday. Local sunrise moves by up to an hour or so across India, but with the tithi opening the night before and closing late on the day, no Indian sunrise of the 14th falls outside it. The panchang calculator reads the day for New Delhi alone. A reader in another city can look up its 2026 and 2027 sunrise and sunset on the city panchang pages.

Counting From Bestu Varas

The Gujarati year turns over not in Chaitra but on the first tithi of Kartika’s bright half, the day Gujarat calls Bestu Varas. It is the same Kartika Shukla Pratipada that north India keeps as Govardhan Puja and Annakut, and the site’s table puts that tithi on Tuesday 10 November 2026, the day whose sunrise it holds.

Why not the morning straight after Diwali? Because the Amavasya outlasts that sunrise. Diwali’s row is Sunday 8 November 2026; at sunrise on Monday 9 November 2026 the daily table still has Amavasya, and the new moon that ends it comes only at 12:32 that day. The Pratipada therefore takes its sunrise on the 10th, two days after Lakshmi Puja rather than one.

From that new-year morning, Labh Pancham is four days on, the fifth day if the new year is counted as the first, and six days after Diwali itself. In Gujarati commercial custom those days are the holiday. The new account books consecrated at Diwali’s chopda pujan wait through them, and Labh Pancham is the morning on which many traders reopen and write the first entries. The custom is the reason for the name; the calendar only fixes where it falls. Diwali’s own evening is set out on the Diwali 2026 timing page.

Jnana Panchami in the Jain Calendar (ज्ञान पंचमी)

Jain households keep the same tithi under a different name and for a different reason. As Jnana Panchami, or Gyan Panchami, it is a day for honouring knowledge in its physical form: the scriptures are brought out, displayed and worshipped. Nothing about that observance concerns trade, and it is a useful reminder that one tithi can carry unrelated customs in neighbouring communities, often in the same town.

The Night Chhath’s Shashthi Begins

The end of this Panchami is also a beginning elsewhere. The Shashthi that opens at 23:24 on the 14th is the tithi of Chhath Puja, whose main day the table fixes on Sunday 15 November 2026. Chhath’s custom counts its four days outward from that Shashthi, which makes this same Saturday the Kharna day in Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, the day before the evening arghya. While western India closes its holiday, the east is halfway through its own observance. The two share a date and nothing else.

What This Page Does Not Give

In Gujarati custom the reopening is usually timed by choghadiya, the eight-part division of the day and of the night. Those periods depend on local sunrise and sunset and on the weekday’s sequence, and a single table printed here would be wrong for most readers. The choghadiya tool lays the eight periods out against New Delhi’s clock: their order and proportions hold anywhere, and only the clock times shift with local sunrise and sunset. This page states no window of its own and makes no claim about which part of the day suits any undertaking.

The Figures in One Place

• Labh Panchami / Saubhagya Panchami / Jnana Panchami: Saturday 14 November 2026
• Kartika Shukla Panchami: 20:42 on 13 November (computed) to 23:24 on 14 November (table)
• Sunrise and sunset on the 14th (New Delhi): 06:42 and 17:28
• Nakshatra and yoga at sunrise: Purva Ashadha, Shula
• Bestu Varas (Kartika Shukla Pratipada): Tuesday 10 November 2026
• Chhath main day: Sunday 15 November 2026

The rest of the season’s dates are in the 2026 festival calendar, and next year’s new-year tithi is on the computed Govardhan Puja 2027 page. In Hindi: लाभ पंचमी 2026 कब है: बेस्तु वरस के बाद लाभ पंचम.