Hindu
🪔 142 days until Diwali
Diwali falls on Sunday, November 8, 2026 in your local time.
Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is the most widely celebrated Hindu festival and is also marked by Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists. It falls on the new moon of the lunar month Kartika, usually in October or November. Homes and streets are decorated with oil lamps and lights, symbolising the victory of light over darkness, accompanied by fireworks, sweets, and family gatherings. As a lunar date it moves within an autumn window each Gregorian year. This countdown uses the date for Lakshmi Puja, the main night, computed with the Vikram Samvat engine shipped on the site.
Date rule: Kartika Amavasya — the new moon of the Hindu month Kartika.
The next Diwali is Sunday, November 8, 2026 — in 143 days. The countdown at the top of this page updates every second in your own time zone, so the number stays accurate wherever you are reading from. Because Diwali is treated as an all-day calendar date rather than a fixed clock time, the countdown rolls over at midnight in your local zone, not at midnight UTC. If you are coordinating across regions, set reminders against this date and let each person's device localise it.
This year the holiday lands on a Sunday, which means it falls on a weekend — many workplaces that observe it grant a substitute day off on the nearest weekday instead. Across the next five occurrences listed below, Diwali touches 5 different weekdays and lands on a weekend 2 of those 5 years — useful when you are planning travel, time off, or a recurring event around it.
Diwali belongs to the hindu calendar tradition. Kartika Amavasya — the new moon of the Hindu month Kartika. Movable dates like this are resolved from the underlying calendar rule rather than a fixed Gregorian day, which is why the date moves around the calendar each year. Timekit computes every occurrence in the table below from that same rule, so the dates stay consistent with the rest of the site's calendar tools and update automatically as the years roll forward.
If you want the dates in your own calendar app, use the live countdown above, then jump to the hindu countdowns or the full holiday list to line up the surrounding observances. For a date-by-date planning view, the five-year table gives you the exact weekday for each upcoming year at a glance.
| Year | Date |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Sunday, November 8, 2026 |
| 2027 | Friday, October 29, 2027 |
| 2028 | Tuesday, October 17, 2028 |
| 2029 | Monday, November 5, 2029 |
| 2030 | Saturday, October 26, 2030 |
The next Diwali is Sunday, November 8, 2026 — in 143 days.
Diwali 2027 falls on Friday, October 29, 2027.
No. Kartika Amavasya — the new moon of the Hindu month Kartika. The Gregorian date shifts each year, so check the table above for the exact date you need.
Yes — the next Diwali is a Sunday.