अक्टूबर 2026 · Haryana

October 2026 Calendar

October 2026 begins in the Hindu month of Ashwin and ends in Kartik (Purnimanta, as followed in Haryana). It has 7 festivals and observances and 4 holidays on this list, including Gandhi Jayanti (2 Oct), Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti (11 Oct), Sharad Navratri · Sanjhi begins (11 Oct), Dussehra (20 Oct).

October 2026: festivals and holidays

• 2OctFri

  Gandhi Jayanti गांधी जयंती

  National holiday.

  Gazetted holiday
• 11OctSun

  Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti महाराजा अग्रसेन जयंती

  Gazetted holiday. Agroha in Hisar district is believed to be Maharaja Agrasen's capital and the ancestral home of the Agarwal community.

  Gazetted holiday
• 11OctSun

  Sharad Navratri · Sanjhi begins शारदीय नवरात्रि · सांझी

  Girls of Haryana start making Sanjhi — a goddess figure of clay stars and a face pressed on the wall with cow dung — and sing to her every evening for nine nights.

  Festival
• 20OctTue

  Dussehra दशहरा

  Gazetted holiday. Ravan, Kumbhkaran and Meghnad effigies burn in every town; Sanjhi is immersed in the pond the same evening.

  Gazetted holiday
• 26OctMon

  Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti महर्षि वाल्मीकि जयंती

  Gazetted holiday on Ashwin (Sharad) Purnima.

  Gazetted holiday
• 29OctThu

  Karva Chauth करवा चौथ

  Restricted holiday. Married women fast from sargi before dawn until moonrise; the karva of water is exchanged and the moon seen through a sieve.

  Restricted holiday
• 31OctSat

  Sardar Patel Jayanti सरदार पटेल जयंती

  Special Day in the Haryana notification.

  Special Day

Vrat days in October 2026

Sanjhi, Dussehra aur Karva Chauth

Daily panchang · October 2026

Tithi and nakshatra are taken at sunrise in Kurukshetra. Times are IST.