Amavasya dates 2026

Amavasya is the new-Moon tithi, the final tithi of Krishna Paksha. It ends an Amanta lunar month; a Purnimanta month ends at Purnima instead. Many Hindu traditions associate Amavasya with fasting and ancestral rites such as Pitru Tarpana.

The calendar below covers 12 Amavasya occurrences in the Gregorian year 2026. Adhika Jyeshtha falls within this year, but an extra month in a lunar year does not automatically mean 13 Amavasyas between January and December.

Calendar

These are reference dates in Indian Standard Time. A repeated entry belongs to the same Amavasya, not another new Moon. Month names follow Purnimanta observance usage, with the intercalary occurrence labelled separately; the dashboard's main month label is Amanta. See how the two month systems differ.

Reference date	Day	Amavasya name
18 Jan 2026	Sunday	Magha Amavasya (Mauni Amavasya)
17 Feb 2026	Tuesday	Phalguna Amavasya
18 Mar 2026	Wednesday	Chaitra Amavasya
19 Mar 2026	Thursday	Chaitra Amavasya (tithi continues)
17 Apr 2026	Friday	Vaishakha Amavasya
16 May 2026	Saturday	Jyeshtha Amavasya
14 Jun 2026	Sunday	Jyeshtha Adhika Amavasya
15 Jun 2026	Monday	Jyeshtha Adhika Amavasya (tithi continues)
14 Jul 2026	Tuesday	Ashadha Amavasya
12 Aug 2026	Wednesday	Shravana Amavasya
10 Sep 2026	Thursday	Bhadrapada Amavasya
11 Sep 2026	Friday	Bhadrapada Amavasya (tithi continues)
10 Oct 2026	Saturday	Ashwin Amavasya (Mahalaya / Sarva Pitru Amavasya)
8 Nov 2026	Sunday	Kartika Amavasya (Diwali)
9 Nov 2026	Monday	Kartika Amavasya (tithi continues)
8 Dec 2026	Tuesday	Margashirsha Amavasya

Why some Amavasyas span two days

A tithi ends when the Moon-Sun separation advances by 12°. Its boundaries need not fall at midnight or sunrise. An Amavasya can therefore touch two civil dates while being present at only one of their sunrises. The table identifies each occurrence; it is not a list of every civil date touched by its start and end times.

The date for a particular fast or ceremony depends on its timing rule. For Diwali, Lakshmi Puja falls on 8 Nov 2026, when Amavasya is active at sunset in Delhi, even though the sunrise tithi that day is Chaturdashi.

How panchang.now uses these

The daily page shows the tithi at sunrise and its next transition. For Mahalaya, open 10 October 2026 in Delhi, or choose another city from the home page. Check the observance's own rule before selecting a time.