Purnima 2026: All Dates and Tithi Times

Purnima is the full-moon tithi, the fifteenth lunar day of the waxing fortnight, and 2026 has 13 of them. The table lists each Purnima of 2026 in date order with its weekday, its lunar month and the moment the Purnima tithi begins and ends in Indian Standard Time for New Delhi. Most dates open that day's full panchang, and the named festivals open their own pages.

All Purnima dates of 2026

Times in Indian Standard Time for New Delhi. Most dates open that day's panchang; a named festival opens its own page.

Purnima in 2026

The first Purnima of 2026 falls on Saturday 3 January 2026 and the last on Wednesday 23 December 2026.

One of them, Adhika Jyeshtha Purnima (31 May), belongs to the year's adhik (extra) lunar month.

Among the named full moons of 2026 are Guru Purnima on 29 July 2026 and Kartik Purnima on 24 November 2026.

What Purnima is

Purnima is the tithi during which the Moon moves from 168 to 180 degrees ahead of the Sun, ending at the exact full moon, so the bright disc is at or near its fullest for the whole of it. It closes the waxing fortnight, Shukla paksha. In the North Indian purnimanta calendar it also closes the lunar month, which is why each full moon carries the name of its month: Chaitra Purnima, Vaishakha Purnima and so on through Phalguna.

Many families keep a fast or a Satyanarayan katha on the full moon, bathe in a river at dawn and give in charity. Several full moons are festivals in their own right: Holi follows the Phalguna full moon, Buddha Purnima is the Vaishakha one, Guru Purnima honours teachers in Ashadha, Raksha Bandhan falls on the Shravana full moon, Sharad Purnima marks the Ashwina one and Kartik Purnima is a day of holy baths and lamps.

Which day is listed, and why festivals can differ

A full moon rarely begins at midnight, so each row is the civil day whose dawn in New Delhi finds Purnima already under way; a Purnima squeezed between two dawns, touching neither, is given to the day on which it starts. That is the usual day for a dawn bath and the day's vrat.

Festivals tied to a full moon use their own windows. Holika Dahan needs Purnima at dusk and outside bhadra, and Raksha Bandhan the afternoon of Purnima outside bhadra, so either may be celebrated a day earlier than the row shows, or at a set hour of that day. The festival pages linked from this site give those windows; this page gives the tithi itself.

Purnima vrat and moonrise

Some households fast until they have seen the rising full moon and offered it water. When Purnima begins in the afternoon or evening, the Moon rises full that same evening, which is why some calendars mark the fast on the day before the one listed here. The start time in the table shows when that is the case: a Purnima that begins before sunset already covers that night's moonrise.

Reading the start and end columns

The end time in each row is the instant of the full moon itself, when the Moon stands exactly opposite the Sun; the start time is when it came within twelve degrees of that point. A Purnima that starts in the small hours and ends late the next night spans almost two civil days, which is when calendars most often disagree about the day of the fast or the dawn bath. Both moments are in Indian Standard Time; readers abroad convert them, and the listed civil day assumes a New Delhi sunrise. A dash in place of a time marks a row whose moment could not be pinned down to the minute; its date link leads to the full panchang for that day.

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Dates follow the sunrise rule for New Delhi; tithi times are calculated with the Lahiri ayanamsa and checked against two published panchangs. For reference.