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Durga Ashtami (Maha Ashtami) 2026
Monday, 19 October 2026 · New Delhi
The eighth day of Navratri, Ashwin Shukla Ashtami, with Kanya Puja and Sandhi Puja.
Timings in New Delhi
- Date
- Monday, 19 October 2026
- Sandhi Puja
- 10:28 am – 11:16 am
- Shukla Ashtami
- 18 Oct, 8:28 am – 19 Oct, 10:52 am
The date on which Ashtami is running at sunrise. Sandhi Puja is the 48 minutes where Ashtami ends and Navami begins.
Date and timings by city (local time)
Computed for each city’s own sunrise, sunset and moonrise — so the date can differ abroad.
| City | Date | Sandhi Puja |
|---|---|---|
| New Delhi | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Mumbai | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bengaluru | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Chennai | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kolkata | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Hyderabad | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Ahmedabad | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Pune | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Jaipur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Lucknow | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kanpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Nagpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Indore | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bhopal | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Patna | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Varanasi | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Prayagraj | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Surat | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Vadodara | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Ludhiana | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Amritsar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Chandigarh | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Dehradun | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Haridwar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Rishikesh | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Agra | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Mathura | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Vrindavan | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Ayodhya | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Ujjain | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Raipur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Ranchi | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bhubaneswar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Puri | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Guwahati | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Coimbatore | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Madurai | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kochi | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Thiruvananthapuram | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Visakhapatnam | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Vijayawada | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Tirupati | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Mysuru | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Nashik | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Rajkot | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Noida | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Gurugram | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Ghaziabad | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Faridabad | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Meerut | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Aligarh | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bareilly | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Moradabad | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Gorakhpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Jhansi | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Jodhpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Udaipur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kota | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Ajmer | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bikaner | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Gwalior | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Jabalpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Thane | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Navi Mumbai | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Aurangabad | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Solapur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kolhapur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Amravati | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Nanded | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Panaji (Goa) | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Mangaluru | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Hubballi | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Belagavi | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Tiruchirappalli | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Salem | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Tirunelveli | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Vellore | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Guntur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Nellore | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Warangal | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kozhikode | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Thrissur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kollam | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Cuttack | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Jamshedpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Dhanbad | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Gaya | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bhagalpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Muzaffarpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Siliguri | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Durgapur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Asansol | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Howrah | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Shillong | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Imphal | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Agartala | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Srinagar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Jammu | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Shimla | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bilaspur | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bhilai | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Jalandhar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Patiala | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bathinda | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Panipat | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Karnal | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Rohtak | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Hisar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kurukshetra (Thanesar) | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Bhavnagar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Jamnagar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Junagadh | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Gandhinagar | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Dwarka | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Veraval (Somnath) | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Kathmandu | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:43 am – 11:31 am |
| Pokhara | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:43 am – 11:31 am |
| Dubai | Mon, 19 Oct | 8:58 am – 9:46 am |
| Abu Dhabi | Mon, 19 Oct | 8:58 am – 9:46 am |
| Sharjah | Mon, 19 Oct | 8:58 am – 9:46 am |
| Muscat | Mon, 19 Oct | 8:58 am – 9:46 am |
| Doha | Mon, 19 Oct | 7:58 am – 8:46 am |
| Kuwait City | Mon, 19 Oct | 7:58 am – 8:46 am |
| Riyadh | Mon, 19 Oct | 7:58 am – 8:46 am |
| Jeddah | Sun, 18 Oct | 7:58 am – 8:46 am |
| Manama | Mon, 19 Oct | 7:58 am – 8:46 am |
| Singapore | Mon, 19 Oct | 12:58 pm – 1:46 pm |
| Kuala Lumpur | Mon, 19 Oct | 12:58 pm – 1:46 pm |
| Bangkok | Mon, 19 Oct | 11:58 am – 12:46 pm |
| Hong Kong | Mon, 19 Oct | 12:58 pm – 1:46 pm |
| Tokyo | Mon, 19 Oct | 1:58 pm – 2:46 pm |
| Denpasar | Mon, 19 Oct | 12:58 pm – 1:46 pm |
| Colombo | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:28 am – 11:16 am |
| Dhaka | Mon, 19 Oct | 10:58 am – 11:46 am |
| London | Sun, 18 Oct | 5:58 am – 6:46 am |
| Birmingham | Sun, 18 Oct | 5:58 am – 6:46 am |
| Leicester | Sun, 18 Oct | 5:58 am – 6:46 am |
| Manchester | Sun, 18 Oct | 5:58 am – 6:46 am |
| Dublin | Sun, 18 Oct | 5:58 am – 6:46 am |
| Paris | Sun, 18 Oct | 6:58 am – 7:46 am |
| Frankfurt | Sun, 18 Oct | 6:58 am – 7:46 am |
| Berlin | Sun, 18 Oct | 6:58 am – 7:46 am |
| Munich | Sun, 18 Oct | 6:58 am – 7:46 am |
| Amsterdam | Sun, 18 Oct | 6:58 am – 7:46 am |
| Zurich | Sun, 18 Oct | 6:58 am – 7:46 am |
| New York | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Jersey City | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Edison | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Chicago | Sun, 18 Oct | 11:58 pm – 12:46 am |
| Houston | Sun, 18 Oct | 11:58 pm – 12:46 am |
| Dallas | Sun, 18 Oct | 11:58 pm – 12:46 am |
| Austin | Sun, 18 Oct | 11:58 pm – 12:46 am |
| San Francisco | Sun, 18 Oct | 9:58 pm – 10:46 pm |
| San Jose | Sun, 18 Oct | 9:58 pm – 10:46 pm |
| Los Angeles | Sun, 18 Oct | 9:58 pm – 10:46 pm |
| Seattle | Sun, 18 Oct | 9:58 pm – 10:46 pm |
| Atlanta | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Boston | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Washington DC | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Philadelphia | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Toronto | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Brampton | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Mississauga | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Vancouver | Sun, 18 Oct | 9:58 pm – 10:46 pm |
| Surrey | Sun, 18 Oct | 9:58 pm – 10:46 pm |
| Calgary | Sun, 18 Oct | 10:58 pm – 11:46 pm |
| Montreal | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Sydney | Mon, 19 Oct | 3:58 pm – 4:46 pm |
| Melbourne | Mon, 19 Oct | 3:58 pm – 4:46 pm |
| Brisbane | Mon, 19 Oct | 2:58 pm – 3:46 pm |
| Perth | Mon, 19 Oct | 12:58 pm – 1:46 pm |
| Adelaide | Mon, 19 Oct | 3:28 pm – 4:16 pm |
| Auckland | Mon, 19 Oct | 5:58 pm – 6:46 pm |
| Johannesburg | Sun, 18 Oct | 6:58 am – 7:46 am |
| Durban | Sun, 18 Oct | 6:58 am – 7:46 am |
| Nairobi | Sun, 18 Oct | 7:58 am – 8:46 am |
| Port Louis | Mon, 19 Oct | 8:58 am – 9:46 am |
| Suva | Mon, 19 Oct | 4:58 pm – 5:46 pm |
| Port of Spain | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Georgetown | Sun, 18 Oct | 12:58 am – 1:46 am |
| Paramaribo | Sun, 18 Oct | 1:58 am – 2:46 am |
About Durga Ashtami (Maha Ashtami)
Sandhi Puja, the last 24 minutes of Ashtami and the first 24 of Navami, is considered the most powerful moment of Durga Puja.
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