🪷 दीपावली · Dīpāvalī (Diwali)

📅 When is Dīpāvalī (Diwali)?

YearDateDay
20252025-10-21Tuesday
2026 (this year)2026-11-09Monday
20272027-10-29Friday
Lakshmi-Pūjā night; festival of lights; Rāma's return to Ayodhyā.
Associated deity: Lakshmi-Mata

Tradition

Tradition: Pan-Hindu

Vrata: No

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

{
  "tithi_number": 30,
  "lunar_month": "Kārtika"
}
Precedence: 1 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output

Sources and Connected Observances

Continue from this festival’s dates, significance, observance, detection rule, and textual witnesses to its day pages, related corpus passages, festival calendar, Pañchāṅga references, Bindu, and philosophy. Textual witnesses remain citation-level references until their complete source passages are available locally.

Dīpāvalī (Diwali)local festival mūrti-page · Pan-Hindu/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceDīpāvalī (Diwali) computed on Tuesday, 2025-10-212026 occurrenceDīpāvalī (Diwali) computed on Monday, 2026-11-092027 occurrenceDīpāvalī (Diwali) computed on Friday, 2027-10-29BG 10.35Krishna as Mārgaśīrṣa among months and kusumākara among seasonsBG 10.30kālaḥ kalayatām aham · Krishna as Time among reckoners/jyotisha-referencetithi, nakshatra, vāra, and pañchāṅga element source layer/cosmic-timekalpa, manvantara, yuga, and annual-cycle time context/lagna-tithi-lokaMātṛ-Vidyā source layer for tithi, loka, and reader-local kṣetra/samskara-muhurtaoperational muhūrta doorway for dharmic timing decisions/bindufestival time as Bindu-touch aperture in the dharmic year/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation