Navratri colours 2026 — the nine days and their colours

Sharad Navratri 2026 runs from Ghatasthapana on 11 October 2026, Sunday to 19 October 2026, Monday, with Dussehra on 20 October 2026, Tuesday. The nine colours, in order: Orange, White, Red, Royal blue, Yellow, Green, Grey, Purple, Peacock green.

The nine days are nine calendar days, counted from Ghatasthapana to the eve of Vijayadashami. The tithi column shows which tithi is running at each sunrise in New Delhi: when one tithi spans two sunrises (a vriddhi) it appears on two rows, and a tithi that touches no sunrise (a kshaya) is named on the day it passes through. The day count and the colours follow the calendar; the pujas follow the tithi.

Day one takes the colour of the weekday Navratri opens on, and each day after it takes its own weekday's colour. Nine days hold only seven weekdays, so days 8 and 9 fall on weekdays already used — those two take the weekday's second colour instead, and no colour repeats. That is why the order changes every year: it follows the weekday Ghatasthapana falls on. This is the list most calendars and newspapers publish; some Gujarati and Marathi papers print their own order, and where your family follows one of those, follow it.