Dhanteras 2026: date, puja muhurat and what to buy

Dhanteras 2026 timings

What families buy on Dhanteras

Many families avoid buying sharp objects or black items on this day. These are customs, not rules, and every home has its own.

• Gold or silver coins and jewellery
• Steel, brass or copper utensils
• Brooms (jhadu), a symbol of sweeping away the old
• Dhaniya (coriander) seeds for the puja
• Lakshmi Ganesh idols for Diwali puja
• Diyas, rangoli colours and new clothes
• Electronics and vehicles, popular in cities

Dhanteras puja vidhi

1. Clean the house and the entrance, and make a small rangoli.
2. In pradosh kaal, set up Lakshmi, Ganesh, Kuber and Dhanvantari on a chowki.
3. Light a ghee diya, offer roli, akshat, flowers, dhaniya and sweets.
4. Place new items bought today near the altar.
5. Chant Lakshmi and Kuber mantras or read a simple aarti.
6. Light a four faced diya facing south outside the door as Yam deepdaan.

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Dhanteras abroad

Jewellers in Dubai's Gold Souk, Edison's Oak Tree Road, Brampton, Southall and Harris Park run Dhanteras offers, and many open late. In North America, Trayodashi begins around midnight between 5 and 6 November local time (on the evening of 5 November on the West Coast), so some families there shop early and still do the puja on 6 November evening. The table below shows the tithi in your city clock.

Dhanteras 2026 time in Indian cities

Dhanteras puja is done in pradosh kaal, the 2 hours 24 minutes after sunset. Below are sunrise, sunset and moonrise on Friday, 6 November 2026 for major Indian cities, calculated from each city's latitude and longitude. All times are IST. East Indian cities see the sun and moon earlier, west Indian cities later, by up to about an hour.

Dhanteras 2026 time in the USA, Canada, UK, UAE and Australia

For families abroad, the tithi starts and ends at the same instant everywhere, but your clock shows it at a different hour and sometimes on a different date. Here is Krishna Trayodashi converted to each city's local time, with daylight saving applied, plus sunrise, sunset and moonrise on Friday, 6 November 2026 in that city.

How to read this table

1. Find your city, or the nearest one in the same time zone.
2. If the tithi covers your evening on Friday, 6 November 2026, you observe on the same date as India.
3. If it does not, follow your local mandir, which will decide using the same rule.

Open your city's full daily panchang, choghadiya and Rahu kaal from the panchang page.

How we calculate these dates and times

• The festival date is the India observance date published in standard Delhi calendars for 2026.
• The tithi window (Fri 6 Nov, 10:31 AM to Sat 7 Nov, 10:48 AM IST) is calculated from the real positions of the Sun and Moon.
• Sunrise, sunset and moonrise are calculated for each city's coordinates, on a flat horizon.
• Local times use each city's official time zone, including daylight saving.

Frequently asked questions about Dhanteras 2026