Ganesh Chaturthi 2028 is on Wednesday, 23 August 2028, on the Shukla Chaturthi tithi, in New Delhi. The tithi runs from 05:10 on 23 August to 01:56 on 24 August. The Madhyahna puja muhurat is from 11:06 to 13:41.
Timings for New Delhi, checked 26 October 2026.
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Chaturthi: 05:10 on 23 August to 01:56 on 24 August
Chaturdashi: 00:35 on 2 September to 02:53 on 3 September
Ganesh Chaturthi, or Vinayaka Chaturthi, is the fourth day of the bright half of Bhadrapada, kept as the birth of Ganesha, the remover of obstacles. It opens a festival of up to ten days that ends on Anant Chaturdashi, when the images are carried to water for visarjan. It is kept above all in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, at home and in great public pandals.
The Puranas tell that Parvati shaped Ganesha and set him to guard her door, and that Shiva, on his return, made him the leader of his ganas and gave him the right to be worshipped first in every rite. A second story explains the moon: when the Moon laughed at Ganesha on this day, Ganesha declared that whoever saw it on Chaturthi would bear a false blame, which is why the tradition asks people not to look at the moon tonight.
A clay image of Ganesha is brought home and installed in the Madhyahna muhurat, the middle of the day, when the tradition places his birth. The puja calls him into the image with prana pratishtha and offers durva grass, red flowers, modak and laddoos, and the aarti is sung morning and evening. After one and a half, three, five, seven or ten days the image is taken in procession for visarjan in water.
Ganesh Chaturthi is kept on the day Chaturthi covers Madhyahna, the middle fifth of the daylight, when the tradition places Ganesha's birth. The moon is not to be seen from when it rises during Chaturthi, or when Chaturthi begins if it is already up, until it sets.
Short answers about Ganesh Chaturthi, for New Delhi.
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Add to my calendarThe tradition holds that seeing the moon on this Chaturthi brings mithya dosha, a false accusation, after the story of Krishna and the Syamantaka jewel. The page gives the stretch when the moon is up and Chaturthi is current, which the tradition asks people to avoid looking at it.
Madhyahna, the middle fifth of the daylight, worked out from your city's sunrise and sunset. The tradition places Ganesha's birth at midday, so the image is installed and worshipped then.
On Wednesday, 23 August 2028 in New Delhi.
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