The next Masik Durgashtami is on Tuesday, 17 November 2026 in New Delhi. There are 12 Masik Durgashtami days in 2026. Each date, with its tithi times, is worked out below for New Delhi.
Timings for New Delhi, checked 26 October 2026.
Next Masik Durgashtami: Tuesday 17 November, in 22 days
Times are India Standard Time, worked out for New Delhi.
Masik Durgashtami is the Ashtami of the bright half of every lunar month, kept for the goddess Durga. It comes twelve or thirteen times a year; the Durgashtami of Ashwin, in Sharad Navratri, is Maha Ashtami, the greatest of them. Those who keep it fast through the day and worship Durga in the morning.
Each Masik Durgashtami is the day Shukla Ashtami is current at sunrise. When an Ashtami begins after one sunrise and ends before the next, so that no sunrise falls in it, it is kept on the day it begins.
Devotees bathe early, fast through the day or keep to fruit and milk, and worship Durga with red flowers, kumkum, a red chunari and a lamp of ghee. The Durga Saptashati or the Durga Chalisa is read, and many offer a meal to young girls as forms of the goddess, as in Navratri. The fast is broken in the evening or the next morning.
Short answers about the 2026 dates, for New Delhi.
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