Karwa Chauth is a Hindu festival celebrated by married women of the Northern and Western India on the Hindu lunar month of Kartika, which falls on the month of October or November.
Karwa Chauth is based on a lunisolar variant of the Hindu Calendars. This festival falls on the fourth day after the full moon. The Karwa Chauth fast 2024 will be celebrated on Sunday, 20th October.
On this festival, there is the ritual of Chandra Puja, where the moon is worshipped after it rises in the night sky. The moon is worshipped as it is often associated with prosperity and well-being.
On the evening of Karwa Chauth, women eagerly wait for the sighting of the moon as they believe it to be an auspicious moment for completing their fast. Usually, these women break their fast when their husbands offer them water to drink as the part of the rituals. Married women seek blessings from the moon for their marital bliss and prosperity.
During the Karwa Chauth fast, married women get dressed in beautiful traditional attires, apply mehndi (henna). They often gather for prayers and rituals with friends and family members. They break their fast after sighting the moon. All the husbands often give gifts to their wives in order to show their love and appreciation. In few parts, women make idols of Lord Shiva, Goddess Parvati, and Lord Ganesha with mud and decorate them with colourful clothes and jewellery. During this festival, mothers-in-law sent sargi to their daughters-in-law.
Here's the list of Karwa Chauth 2024 moon rising timings in different Indian cities:
- · Mumbai: 8:59 PM
- · Pune: 8:56 PM
- · Chennai: 8:43 PM
- · Kanpur: 7:32 PM
- · Varanasi: 7:32 PM
- · Bareilly: 7:46 PM
- · Lucknow: 8:05 PM
- · Agra: 8:16 PM
- · Jaipur: 7:54 PM
- · Surat: 7:40 PM
- · Ahmedabad: 7:38 PM
- · Indore: 8:25 PM
- · Bhopal: 8:29 PM
- · Ambala: 7:55 PM
- · Amritsar: 7:54 PM
- · Faridabad: 8:04 PM
- · Chandigarh: 7:54 PM
- · Gurugram: 8:16 PM
- · Bengaluru: 7:55 PM
- · Kolkata: 7:46 PM
- · Dehradun: 7:09 PM
- · New Delhi: 8:15 PM
- · Noida: 8:14 PM
- · Ghaziabad: 8:11 PM
- · Gandhinagar: 8:28 PM
- · Patna: 7:29 PM
- · Ranchi: 7:35 PM
- · Raipur: 7:43 PM
- · Bhubaneswar: 7:40 PM
- · Chandigarh: 7:48 PM
- · Jammu: 7:52 PM
- · Shimla: 7:45 PM
- · Dehradun: 7.24 PM
- · Madurai: 8.36 PM
- · Gangtok: 8:40 PM
- · Itanagar: 6.50 PM
- · Dispur: 8.24 PM
- · Kohima: 8.13 PM
- · Imphal: 6.55 PM
- · Shillong: 7.02 PM
- · Panaji: 8.39 PM
- · Hyderabad: 7.43 PM
- · Srinagar: 7:48 PM
- · Puducherry: 8.24 PM