Today's Tithi

आज की तिथि

Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Today's tithi is Krishna Chaturthi hai — the 19th tithi, in the lunar month of Bhadrapada. It runs until 02:56 PM.

A tithi is the time the Moon takes to gain 12 degrees on the Sun. It measures an angle, not a rotation, so it is not a fixed number of hours — a tithi runs anywhere from about 19 to 26 hours depending on how fast the Moon is moving. That is why it rarely begins at sunrise and almost never ends at midnight.

Today's lunar day in full

Tithi
Krishna Chaturthi
Ends at
02:56 PM
Paksha
Krishna — the waning fortnight
Lunar month
Bhadrapada
Nakshatra
Bharani, pada 4
Vaara
Wednesday
Vikram Samvat
2083 (Parabhava)
Shaka Samvat
1948

Chaturthi belongs to the Rikta group. Emptying. Generally avoided for auspicious work, and used instead for clearing, ending and letting go.

Why the tithi is the same everywhere in India

A tithi is an angle between the Sun and the Moon, and an angle reaches its next multiple at one instant for the whole planet. Read against a single clock, Krishna Chaturthi is running in Kochi and in Guwahati at the same moment, and it ends in both at 02:56 PM. There is no local tithi to look up.

What is local is everything measured from sunrise — Rahu Kaal, Choghadiya, Hora and Abhijit — because sunrise lands over an hour apart between the east and west of a country keeping one clock. Those are on the city pages.

Computed for Delhi and true for Indian Standard Time. Outside IST the same instant falls at a different clock time, and occasionally on a different date.

All thirty tithis

Shukla Paksha — waxing, to the full moon

  1. 1Pratipada
  2. 2Dwitiya
  3. 3Tritiya
  4. 4Chaturthi
  5. 5Panchami
  6. 6Shashthi
  7. 7Saptami
  8. 8Ashtami
  9. 9Navami
  10. 10Dashami
  11. 11Ekadashi
  12. 12Dwadashi
  13. 13Trayodashi
  14. 14Chaturdashi
  15. 15Purnima

Krishna Paksha — waning, to the new moon

  1. 16Pratipada
  2. 17Dwitiya
  3. 18Tritiya
  4. 19Chaturthi
  5. 20Panchami
  6. 21Shashthi
  7. 22Saptami
  8. 23Ashtami
  9. 24Navami
  10. 25Dashami
  11. 26Ekadashi
  12. 27Dwadashi
  13. 28Trayodashi
  14. 29Chaturdashi
  15. 30Amavasya

The five groups

The thirty tithis fall into five sets of shared character, repeating every five days through each paksha. It is the group, more than the individual tithi, that decides what a day is traditionally used for.

Nanda · Pratipada, Shashthi, Ekadashi
Beginnings and celebration. Traditionally taken for starting something rather than finishing it.
Bhadra · Dwitiya, Saptami, Dwadashi
Steady, ordinary work — the tithis for things that need to hold rather than impress.
Jaya · Tritiya, Ashtami, Trayodashi
Contest and effort. Used for anything that has to be won rather than agreed.
Rikta · Chaturthi, Navami, Chaturdashi
Emptying. Generally avoided for auspicious work, and used instead for clearing, ending and letting go.
Purna · Panchami, Dashami, Purnima, Amavasya
Completion. Taken for finishing, for ceremony, and for anything meant to last.

Tithi — common questions

What is today's tithi? — आज की तिथि

Today's tithi is Krishna Chaturthi hai — the 19th tithi of the lunar month of Bhadrapada, running until 02:56 PM.

What is a tithi?

A tithi is the time the Moon takes to gain 12 degrees on the Sun. Because it measures an angle rather than a rotation, a tithi is not a fixed number of hours — it runs anywhere from about 19 to 26 hours depending on how fast the Moon is moving, which is why it rarely starts at sunrise and rarely ends at midnight.

Does the tithi change from city to city?

No. The Sun–Moon angle reaches its next multiple at a single instant everywhere on Earth, so read against one clock the tithi is the same in every Indian city. What does change by city is everything measured from sunrise — Rahu Kaal, Choghadiya, Hora and Abhijit — because sunrise itself lands over an hour apart across the country.

How many tithis are there?

Thirty in a lunar month — fifteen in the waxing Shukla Paksha ending at Purnima, and fifteen in the waning Krishna Paksha ending at Amavasya. They are also grouped into five sets of similar character: Nanda, Bhadra, Jaya, Rikta and Purna.