Bhai Dooj 2026 is on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, on the Shukla Dwitiya tithi, in New Delhi. The tithi runs from 14:01 on 10 November to 15:54 on 11 November. The Tilak time (Aparahna) is from 13:10 to 15:20.
Timings for New Delhi, checked 26 October 2026.
Each event with its day and its time, worked out for New Delhi by the rule the tradition gives for it.
Dwitiya: 14:01 on 10 November to 15:54 on 11 November
Bhai Dooj is the second day of the bright half of Kartika and the last of Diwali's five days, kept by sisters and brothers. It is Yama Dwitiya in the Puranas, Bhau Beej in Maharashtra, Bhai Tika in Nepal and Bhai Phonta in Bengal. Sisters welcome their brothers with tilak and aarti, and brothers bring gifts.
The tradition's account is that Yamuna had long asked her brother Yama to visit her, and on this Dwitiya he came. She welcomed him with a lamp, a tilak on his forehead and a meal she had cooked, and he was so pleased that he granted her a wish: that every brother who visits his sister on this day and eats at her home be honoured as he was. The day is named for that visit.
Brothers go to their sisters' homes. The sister prepares a plate with roli, rice, a lamp and sweets, applies a tilak to her brother's forehead, waves the aarti and feeds him a meal she has cooked; in Bengal the tilak is of sandalwood. Brothers give gifts in return. Many families bathe in the Yamuna, at Mathura above all, on the morning of the day.
Bhai Dooj is kept on the day Dwitiya covers more of Aparahna, the fourth fifth of the daylight, because the tilak is given in the afternoon, as Yamuna is said to have welcomed Yama.
Short answers about Bhai Dooj, for New Delhi.
Want every vrat and festival on your phone, for your city?
Add to my calendarIn Aparahna, the fourth fifth of the daylight, the afternoon hours the tradition gives to the tilak, while Dwitiya is current. The time is worked out from your city's sunrise and sunset.
No. Both are days of sisters and brothers, but Raksha Bandhan is the Purnima of Shravana, when a sister ties a rakhi, while Bhai Dooj is the Dwitiya after Diwali, when she gives a tilak and a meal.
On Wednesday, 11 November 2026 in New Delhi.
Save each birth once. Every calculator then opens already worked out for you, your parents, your partner and your children.
