Pradosh Vrat dates in 2026 for New Delhi, the first on Thu, 1 January 2026 and the last on Mon, 21 December 2026. Every row carries the Pradosh Kaal window, and the rule and text that chose the date. Change the city below to recompute for yours.
2026 dates · New Delhi
Guru Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Shukra Pradosh
The Trayodashi pervades pradosha on both candidate days; the day it covers more of is taken.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
TIE-BREAK, LABELLED AS A MODERN HEURISTIC, NOT A VERSE: where the tithi pervades the prescribed window on two consecutive days the day with the greater overlap is taken. No classical text grades pervasion this way; the graded rule is stated only by modern panchang-makers. It is used here solely to make a genuine two-candidate case deterministic.
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Shukra Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Shani Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Ravi (Bhanu) Pradosh
The Trayodashi pervades pradosha on both candidate days; the day it covers more of is taken.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
TIE-BREAK, LABELLED AS A MODERN HEURISTIC, NOT A VERSE: where the tithi pervades the prescribed window on two consecutive days the day with the greater overlap is taken. No classical text grades pervasion this way; the graded rule is stated only by modern panchang-makers. It is used here solely to make a genuine two-candidate case deterministic.
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Soma Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Soma Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Budh Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Bhauma (Mangal) Pradosh
The Trayodashi pervades pradosha on both candidate days; the day it covers more of is taken.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
TIE-BREAK, LABELLED AS A MODERN HEURISTIC, NOT A VERSE: where the tithi pervades the prescribed window on two consecutive days the day with the greater overlap is taken. No classical text grades pervasion this way; the graded rule is stated only by modern panchang-makers. It is used here solely to make a genuine two-candidate case deterministic.
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Guru Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Guru Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Shukra Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Shani Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Ravi (Bhanu) Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Ravi (Bhanu) Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Soma Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Bhauma (Mangal) Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Bhauma (Mangal) Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Guru Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Guru Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Shukra Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Shukra Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Ravi (Bhanu) Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Ravi (Bhanu) Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
Soma Pradosh
Taken on the day whose pradosha window — the first three muhurtas of the night — the Trayodashi pervades.
Kane, History of Dharmasastra V.i p.73: "all vratas to be performed in the evening or night have to be performed on the tithi existing in the evening or night even though it may be mixed up (viddha) with another tithi."
The vara runs sunrise to sunrise, so the pradosha window — which opens at sunset — belongs to the weekday of its own civil date. Naming a Pradosh after that weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Ravi) is popular usage, not a rule from a located text.
Pradosha (first three nocturnal muhurtas): Dharma Sindhu, Samanya-Paribhasha (digest, unversed): "Nakta vrata is to consume a single meal three muhurtas after Sunset called Pradosha kaala" - three nocturnal muhurtas from sunset, i.e. one fifth of the night arc.
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