When is Ahoi Ashtami 2026?

Stars and moonrise · Sunday, 1 November 2026

Ahoi Ashtami 2026 star sighting and moonrise time by city

When the first stars can be seen (the end of civil twilight) and when the Moon rises on the Ahoi Ashtami evening, computed for each city. A moonrise after midnight carries its date, and still belongs to the evening before.

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Timings on this page are computed for Bhopal.

The whole table below is recomputed for the city you pick. That is not cosmetic: an observance decided at moonrise, such as Karwa Chauth, can genuinely fall on a different day in two cities, and the moment the fast ends differs by more than an hour across India.

Computed for Bhopal

The date in Bhopal

Sunday, 1 November 2026

Ahoi Ashtami is not a Gregorian date. It is Krishna paksha tithi 8 of Kartika in the purnimanta reckoning, and the Gregorian day it lands on moves by up to a month between years because twelve lunations fall about eleven days short of a solar year.

Tithi

Ashtami, Krishna paksha

Lunar month

Kartika (purnimanta)

Tithi begins

1 Nov, 14:52

Tithi ends

2 Nov, 13:11

Decided at

Moonrise (that night, even after midnight)

Moonrise in Bhopal

1 Nov, 23:45

Moonrise in Bhopal falls at 23:45 on that day, and that is the instant the tithi has to be running at for the day to carry the observance. It is computed for this city rather than assumed, because it is what decides the date.

The two instants above are the astronomy and are not in dispute. The day is an interpretation of them: this observance is decided at moonrise, so it belongs to the day whose moonrise the tithi carries — not simply to the day the tithi begins.

Meaning and observance

What is Ahoi Ashtami, and when is the fast broken?

Ahoi Ashtami is a fast kept by mothers for their children, on the Ashtami of the dark fortnight of Kartika as North India counts the month — four days after Karwa Chauth and about a week before Diwali. Ahoi Mata is drawn on a wall, or set up on a printed card with the seven sons of her story, and worshipped at dusk.

• The fast runs from sunrise to evening. Most families break it after sighting the first stars and offering them water; some wait for the Moon, which rises close to midnight on this night. Both times are computed above for your city.
• The date is the day whose moonrise falls in Ashtami — the rule that gives Drik Panchang's date in every year from 2014 to 2036. A Moon that rises after midnight still counts for the evening before, because a Vedic day runs sunrise to sunrise.
• South and west India reckon the month amanta, and there the same day is Ashwin Krishna Ashtami: the month's name differs, the day does not.
• In Braj the same night is Bahulashtami, when pilgrims bathe in Radha Kund at Govardhan at midnight.

Muhurat · Bhopal

Ahoi Ashtami muhurat

17:42 to 20:06

Ahoi Ashtami is dated by Ashtami at that night's moonrise and kept in the evening, so the window is pradosh — the twilight after sunset — while Ashtami runs. The fast itself is broken once the stars are out; that time is in the table above.

Auspicious windows that day

Windows usually worked around

These are the spans classical muhurta sets aside for beginnings. They are descriptions of a convention, not warnings: the observance is kept on its day regardless, and nothing here needs to be bought, corrected or remedied.

Every window above is computed for Bhopal on Sunday, 1 November 2026, from that day's sunrise, sunset and the following sunrise. The Vedic day runs sunrise to sunrise, so a window whose clock time falls after midnight still belongs to the date named above rather than to the one the wall clock has turned over to.

• Choghadiya windows for today
• Rahu Kaal for your city
• Hora — the planetary hours

Ahoi Ashtami across five years

Two years back, this year, and two ahead. Past years are kept rather than dropped so you can check the engine against a calendar you already have.

Every row is computed for Bhopal from the same ephemeris, not looked up. Sunrise decides which day a tithi names, and sunrise differs across India by more than an hour, so a date computed for Delhi can be a day out elsewhere.

Why calendars disagree about this date

There is no single authority that settles a Hindu festival date, and the divergence is genuine rather than sloppy. Three causes account for almost all of it.

1. A tithi rarely starts at sunrise. One that is running at the deciding moment on two days — or on none — is claimed by both days under different rules.
2. Month reckoning. North India runs purnimanta, the south and west amanta. The same dark fortnight carries different month names in the two, so an observance defined as "krishna X of month Y" can land a full lunation apart.
3. Which moment decides. Most vratas belong to the day whose sunrise carries the tithi, but not all: this one is decided at moonrise. Almanacs that apply the sunrise rule to everything move several festivals by a day.

So this page shows its working. If your pandit or your family almanac gives a different day, the instants above will usually show you exactly why — and that is more useful than a date asserted without one.

Related timing

• Moonrise time today in your city
• The full vrat and tyohar calendar
• Panchang for your city — tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana
• Choghadiya windows for the day
• Free kundli — see what this period touches in your own chart