The next Masik Shivaratri is on Saturday, 7 November 2026 in New Delhi. There are 12 Masik Shivaratri days in 2026. Each date, with its tithi times and the Nishita kaal, is worked out below for New Delhi.
Timings for New Delhi, checked 26 October 2026.
Next Masik Shivaratri: Saturday 7 November, in 12 days
Times are India Standard Time, worked out for New Delhi.
Masik Shivaratri, the monthly night of Shiva, is the Chaturdashi of the dark half of every lunar month, the night before the new moon. It comes twelve or thirteen times a year; the one in Phalguna (Magha in the south's reckoning) is Maha Shivaratri, the greatest of them. Devotees who keep Maha Shivaratri often take up the monthly vrat from it and keep it through the year.
Each Masik Shivaratri is the night Krishna Chaturdashi is current at Nishita, the eighth of the fifteen muhurtas of the night, around midnight, because the worship belongs there. When Chaturdashi begins late in the day, the date is still the evening before the night it covers; the Nishita kaal given is that night's.
The day is a fast, many keeping only fruit and milk, and the worship belongs to the night. At Nishita, the muhurta around midnight, the Shiva linga is bathed with water, milk, curd, honey and ghee and offered bilva leaves, white flowers and dhatura, with the mantra Om Namah Shivaya. Many keep a vigil, and the fast is broken the next morning after sunrise.
Short answers about the 2026 dates, for New Delhi.
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Every dark-half Chaturdashi is a Shivaratri; Maha Shivaratri is the one in Phalguna, kept with the four prahar worship through the whole night. The monthly vrats follow the same rule for the day, Chaturdashi at Nishita.
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On Saturday, 7 November 2026 in New Delhi.
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