Dhanteras 2026 is on Friday, 6 November 2026, on the Krishna Trayodashi tithi, in New Delhi. The tithi runs from 10:31 on 6 November to 10:48 on 7 November. The Dhanteras puja muhurat is from 18:03 to 19:58.
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.
Trayodashi: 10:31 on 6 November to 10:48 on 7 November
Trayodashi: 10:31 on 6 November to 10:48 on 7 November
The lamp is lit for Yama after sunset, at the door of the house, facing south.
Dhanteras, or Dhanatrayodashi, is the thirteenth day of the dark half of Kartika (Ashwin in the south's reckoning), two days before Diwali and the first of its five days. Dhan is wealth and teras the thirteenth. The day honours Lakshmi and Kubera, the keeper of the gods' treasury, and Dhanvantari, the physician of the gods, whose birthday it is held to be; Ayurveda marks it as Dhanvantari Jayanti.
The Puranas tell of the churning of the ocean of milk by the gods and the asuras. Among the treasures that rose from it, Lakshmi came seated on a lotus, and on the thirteenth day Dhanvantari rose holding the pot of amrit, the nectar the gods had churned for. Because both wealth and the healer's art came out of the ocean in those days, the tradition joins them on Dhanteras, and the pot Dhanvantari carried is why a new vessel is bought on this day.
Houses are cleaned and the door marked with rangoli and the small footprints of Lakshmi walking in. The tradition holds the day good for buying metal, so families buy gold, silver or a new brass or steel vessel, and bring it home before the evening puja. The puja is made in Pradosh, after sunset, to Lakshmi, Kubera and Ganesha, with a lamp of ghee, flowers, sweets and coriander seeds. After dark a lamp of flour or clay, Yama Deepam, is lit at the door facing south.
Dhanteras is kept on the day Krishna Trayodashi is current in Pradosh, from sunset through the first fifth of the night, because the puja belongs to the evening. The muhurat is the part of Pradosh when Vrishabha, a fixed lagna, is rising, which the tradition prefers so that what is begun stays. Yama Deepam is lit on the evening Trayodashi is current at sunset.
Short answers about Dhanteras, for New Delhi.
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Add to my calendarThe tradition favours metal: gold or silver coins and jewellery, and above all a new vessel of brass, copper or steel, after the pot of amrit Dhanvantari carried. Many households also buy a broom, a simple sign of sweeping the house clean for Lakshmi.
The part of Pradosh, the evening hours after sunset, when Vrishabha lagna is rising and Trayodashi is current. Vrishabha is a fixed sign, and the tradition prefers a fixed lagna for this puja so that what is welcomed stays. It is worked out from your city's sunset and the rising signs.
On Friday, 6 November 2026 in New Delhi.
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