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August 2026 Hindu Calendar
Use this monthly guide for Hindu date planning in August 2026. It explains the likely lunar-month overlap, observance windows, and Panchang checks to verify before you choose a civil date.
August often overlaps Shravana and Bhadrapada
This is often one of the densest festival periods, with sibling, Krishna, Ganesha, and vrata observances.
Do not rely on civil date alone. Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami, and Ganesh Chaturthi depend on precise tithi and sometimes nakshatra windows.
August 2026 tithi, nakshatra, and sunrise
This crawlable month table uses Mumbai as the reference Panchang location. It gives a daily snapshot for answer engines and readers before they confirm location-specific timings on a city page.
Shravana 2083
Bhadrapada 2083
Ekadashi, Purnima, Amavasya, and related checks
What to watch in August
These observances often appear around this civil month, but exact dates must be calculated for 2026. Lunar tithis can shift across sunrise, evening, moonrise, or night windows.
How to use this month
Civil dates do not always line up neatly with Hindu lunar days. A tithi can begin or end during the civil day, so important observances depend on which tithi prevails at the rule-specific time such as sunrise, pradosha, madhyahna, or nishita.
- 1.Open the interactive calendar and switch to August 2026.
- 2.Select candidate dates and compare tithi, paksha, nakshatra, sunrise, and sunset.
- 3.For festivals, confirm the rule moment: sunrise, madhyahna, pradosha, moonrise, or nishita.
- 4.Open the full Panchang for the chosen day before using it for a vrata, puja, travel, or ceremony.
Why the table still needs local verification
Hindu calendar dates are calculated from the Sun, Moon, and local day. A single civil month can contain parts of two Hindu lunar months, and a festival window may move into the previous or next civil month depending on the year.
Treat this Mumbai-based table as a readable reference for August 2026. Use it to understand the likely Hindu-calendar context, then rely on the city Panchang and festival pages when a vrata, puja, or ceremony depends on local sunrise, moonrise, pradosha, madhyahna, or nishita timing.
Paksha and Hindu month pages
Zoom into the fortnight windows or the underlying Hindu lunar months for August 2026. Each date in the table above also opens a full daily Panchang page.