Govardhan Puja 2026 is on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, on the Shukla Pratipada tithi, in New Delhi. The tithi runs from 12:32 on 9 November to 14:01 on 10 November. The Morning muhurat (Pratahkala) is from 06:40 to 08:50.
Timings for New Delhi, checked 26 October 2026.
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Pratipada: 12:32 on 9 November to 14:01 on 10 November
Govardhan Puja is the first day of the bright half of Kartika, the day after Lakshmi Puja and the fourth of Diwali's five days. It is kept above all in Braj, around Mathura and Vrindavan, as Annakut, the mountain of food. In Maharashtra the same day is Bali Pratipada or Padwa, and in Gujarat it begins the new year.
The Bhagavata Purana tells that the people of Braj made a yearly offering to Indra for rain until the young Krishna asked them to worship Govardhan hill instead, which fed their cattle and gave them water. Indra sent seven days of storm in anger, and Krishna lifted the hill on the little finger of his left hand and held it as an umbrella over the village and its cows until Indra relented. The day remembers that shelter.
A small Govardhan is shaped in the courtyard from cow dung, decorated with flowers and grass, and worshipped and walked around. In temples and homes an annakut is laid out, a mountain of dishes, often fifty-six, offered to Krishna and then shared as prasad. Cows and bullocks are bathed, garlanded and fed, and in Braj pilgrims walk the parikrama of Govardhan hill.
Govardhan Puja is kept on the first morning Shukla Pratipada of Kartika is current in Pratahkala, the first fifth of the daylight. The evening muhurat is Sayahna, the last fifth, when Pratipada still lasts.
Short answers about Govardhan Puja, for New Delhi.
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Add to my calendarThe mountain of food offered on Govardhan Puja: rice, sweets, vegetables and dishes of the new harvest, often fifty-six of them, heaped before Krishna in memory of the hill he lifted, then shared out as prasad.
Because it is kept on the first morning Pratipada is current, and when Amavasya lasts past the morning after Lakshmi Puja, Pratipada reaches the morning only on the next day.
On Tuesday, 10 November 2026 in New Delhi.
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