Vijayadashami 2026

Vijayadashami 2026 falls on Tuesday, 20 October 2026. The day is Ashwina Shukla Dashami, and the tithi is tested at aparahna — the fourth fifth of the daylight.

The date, and how it was decided

Vijayadashami 2026 falls on Tuesday, 20 October 2026.

The day is Ashwina Shukla Dashami. The tithi alone does not fix the date: a tithi rarely fills a civil day, so a festival names the period its tithi has to be running in. For Vijayadashami that period is aparahna, the fourth fifth of the daylight. This is the window the observance is kept in.

The dashami is tested at aparahna, the fourth fifth of the daylight, which is when the Sami puja and the crossing of the border were kept. Where two days carry the tithi, the one covering more of that window takes the day.

Aparahna in your city

This is the window the observance is kept in. It is set by the Sun at your own horizon, so it is not the same time across the country — the spread below is about forty minutes end to end.

This is the whole of aparahna, computed as the fourth fifth of the daylight at that city's own sunrise and sunset. Almanacs often also print a narrower muhurat inside it, chosen for a fixed sign rising rather than for the tithi; if you have seen a shorter window elsewhere, that is what it was, and it sits inside this one.

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