November 2026 Vrat and Festival List: Every Date

November 2026 is the busiest month of the Hindu year on a wall calendar. It holds the whole of the Diwali week, Chhath, the Ekadashi that closes Chaturmas and Kartik Purnima, and around them the monthly fasts that come back every fortnight. The table below puts all 23 entries in one list, in date order, and says for each one which reading fixed the day. Most of the month’s calendar disagreements come from that column: two almanacs that test the same tithi at different moments of the day can print different dates without either being wrong.

November 2026 Vrat and Festival Dates (व्रत त्योहार)

Dates are for New Delhi. Sunrise and sunset come from the site’s daily panchang, computed from NASA JPL’s DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa, and tithi instants from the same tables. A tithi begins and ends at one instant everywhere in India, but sunrise does not, so a sunrise-tested date near an edge can move by a day in the far east or west of the country. The city panchang pages print the sunrise for each city they cover.

The Diwali Week, Day by Day

The week opens on Friday 6 November with Dhanteras. Its rule is the Krishna Trayodashi at pradosh, the span after sunset, and that is also the test for Pradosh Vrat, so the same evening is the month’s first Shukra Pradosh Vrat. The next day, Saturday 7 November, is Narak Chaturdashi, and the Krishna Chaturdashi it is kept on also holds that night’s midnight, which makes it Masik Shivratri as well.

Diwali is Sunday 8 November. The Amavasya begins at 11:28 that day and runs until 12:32 on 9 November, so it holds the 17:31 sunset of 8 November, the moment the Diwali rule tests, and also the sunrise of 9 November. That is why a calendar that marks every day by its sunrise tithi prints “Amavasya” on Monday 9 November, the day after the festival. The two entries in the table are the same tithi read at two moments. Govardhan Puja follows on Tuesday 10 November, the first sunrise of the new fortnight’s Pratipada, and Bhai Dooj on Wednesday 11 November.

Before Diwali: Ahoi Ashtami and Rama Ekadashi

The month begins inside the waning fortnight of Kartika as north India counts it. The Krishna Ashtami of Sunday 1 November carries two observances. Kept at night, it is Kalashtami; kept by mothers at the first stars of the evening, it is Ahoi Ashtami, which some calendars print on 2 November because the Ashtami also holds that morning’s sunrise. Rama Ekadashi falls on Thursday 5 November, with its Dwadashi parana on Dhanteras morning.

Labh Panchami to Akshaya Navami

The bright fortnight after Diwali is crowded with regional observances, several of them a day apart. Vinayaka Chaturthi is Friday 13 November. Gujarat’s Labh Panchami, the morning traders there traditionally reopen the account books blessed at Diwali, is Saturday 14 November. On Sunday 15 November two festivals at opposite ends of the country share the Shukla Shashthi: the evening arghya of Chhath Puja in Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, and in Tamil Nadu Soorasamharam, the sixth day of the Skanda Sashti vratam.

Tuesday 17 November is both the month’s Masik Durgashtami and Gopashtami, the Braj festival of the cows; the Shukla Ashtami holds that sunrise and no other. The Navami after it holds two sunrises, so Akshaya Navami appears on 18 November in some calendars and on 19 November in others.

Dev Uthani Ekadashi and Kartik Purnima

Dev Uthani Ekadashi, also called Prabodhini, closes chaturmas, the four lunar months the Puranic account counts from Devshayani Ekadashi in Ashadha. This year’s Shukla Ekadashi opens at 07:16 on 20 November, after that morning’s 06:47 sunrise, and ends at 06:32 on 21 November, before the next one, so it holds no New Delhi sunrise at all. The festival table keeps Friday 20 November, the day it begins; the Dev Uthani page explains why Vaishnava calendars read the same tithi differently, and why Tulsi Vivah is held on the Ekadashi in some households and on the Dwadashi in others. The second pradosh of the month comes on Sunday 22 November, which makes it a Ravi Pradosh Vrat.

Kartik Purnima is Tuesday 24 November, the night of Dev Deepawali at Varanasi. In Tamil Nadu the same day is Karthigai Deepam, which is fixed by the Moon in Krittika during the solar month of Karthigai rather than by the tithi; this year the two land together. Calendars that end the month at the full moon open Margashirsha on 25 November; the Margashirsha 2026 page sets out both month systems. The month’s Sankashti Chaturthi is Friday 27 November, when New Delhi’s moonrise at 20:13 falls inside the Krishna Chaturthi.

Panchak and Two Ravi Pushya Sundays

The Moon is in Kumbha and Meena, the stretch the almanacs call Panchak, from 15:30 on Tuesday 17 November to 05:54 on Sunday 22 November. It opens on Gopashtami afternoon and holds Dev Uthani Ekadashi. The customs the muhurta manuals tie to Panchak concern beginning a few kinds of work, such as laying a roof or setting out on a journey south; the Panchak page lists them.

The Moon passes through Pushya twice. Both passages hold a Sunday sunrise, on 1 November and 29 November, so both are Ravi Pushya by either reading the Guru and Ravi Pushya page uses, and neither touches a Thursday, so the month has no Guru Pushya. The first is the Ahoi Ashtami Sunday.

The Sky in November 2026

Six sign changes and stations fall in the month. Venus, still retrograde, slips back into Virgo at 01:15 on 6 November and turns direct there on 14 November; it returns to Libra at 17:09 on 22 November, the move the Venus in Libra page covers. Mars enters Leo at 20:10 on 12 November (see Mars in Leo 2026). Mercury ends its retrograde in Libra on 13 November, and the Sun enters sidereal Scorpio at 19:39 on 16 November. Station days are given without a clock time, because a planet that has almost stopped moving gives no sharp minute.

Why Two Calendars Can Differ

Every observance here is a tithi or a nakshatra tested at a set moment: sunrise for most fasts, the 144-minute pradosh span after sunset for Dhanteras, Diwali and Pradosh Vrat, midnight for Masik Shivratri and Kalashtami, the middle fifth of daylight for Vinayaka Chaturthi and Bhai Dooj, and moonrise for Sankashti. Where a tithi holds two of those moments, as Akshaya Navami does this month, authorities can choose differently. A family that follows a particular sampradaya’s calendar, or its own priest, should keep to that; this page is a reading of one set of rules, stated in each row.

Related Pages

December is on the December 2026 vrat and festival list. The whole year’s major dates are in the 2026 festival calendar, and every festival page is on the festivals hub. The day-by-day tithi, nakshatra and Rahu Kaal for the month are on the November 2026 panchang, and the year-long lists of the monthly fasts begin with the Ekadashi 2027 list. In Hindi: नवंबर 2026 व्रत त्योहार सूची: हर व्रत-पर्व की तारीख.