Raksha Bandhan 2026 is on Friday, 28 August 2026, on the Purnima tithi, in New Delhi. The tithi runs from 09:09 on 27 August to 09:49 on 28 August. The Rakhi tying time is from 05:57 to 09:49.
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.
Purnima: 09:09 on 27 August to 09:49 on 28 August
Bhadra is over before sunrise, so the rakhi can be tied from sunrise for as long as Purnima lasts.
Raksha Bandhan is the Purnima of Shravana, the full moon of the monsoon, when a sister ties a rakhi, a thread of protection, on her brother's wrist. Raksha is protection and bandhan the tie. The same full moon is Shravani, when Brahmins change the sacred thread, and Narali Purnima on the western coast, when coconuts are offered to the sea.
Several accounts lie behind the thread. In one, Indrani tied a thread charged with mantras on Indra's wrist before his battle with the asuras. In another, Lakshmi tied one on King Bali and asked for her husband Vishnu's return from his palace. The Mahabharata tradition tells that Draupadi tore her sari to bind Krishna's cut finger, and he remembered the gesture when she needed him.
The sister prepares a plate with the rakhi, roli, rice, a lamp and sweets. She applies a tilak to her brother's forehead, ties the rakhi on his right wrist, waves the aarti and feeds him a sweet; he gives her a gift in return. The tradition sets the tying in Aparahna, the afternoon, when Purnima is current and Bhadra is over, or in Pradosh when the afternoon is not free of Bhadra.
Raksha Bandhan is kept on Shravana Purnima, away from Bhadra. When Bhadra is over before sunrise the rakhi may be tied from sunrise for as long as Purnima lasts; otherwise in Aparahna, the afternoon, after Bhadra ends, or in Pradosh if the afternoon is not free of it.
Short answers about Raksha Bandhan, for New Delhi.
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Add to my calendarBhadra, the Vishti karana, is the half-tithi the tradition asks to avoid for auspicious rites, and in many years it covers the morning of Raksha Bandhan. The page gives the time after Bhadra ends, while Purnima is current.
Aparahna, the fourth fifth of the daylight, when Purnima is current and Bhadra is over; if Bhadra lasts into the afternoon, Pradosh, the evening after sunset. The times are worked out from your city's sunrise and sunset.
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