Chhath Parana · Sama Chakeva begins Festival The four-day festival of Bihar, Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh for Surya and Chhathi Maiya.
Chhath Parana · Sama Chakeva begins 2026 falls on Monday, 16 November, computed for Chennai.
Latitude, longitude and time zone 13.08, 80.27
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
Mithila calendar, computed for Chennai
- Monday, 16 November 2026
- Friday, 5 November 2027
- Tuesday, 24 October 2028
Where Chhath Parana · Sama Chakeva begins falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2026: 16 Nov
- 2027: 5 Nov
- 2028: 24 Oct
The dates, year by year
Mithila calendar, computed for Chennai
| Year | Chhath Parana · Sama Chakeva begins |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Wednesday, 29 October 2025 |
| 2026 | Monday, 16 November 2026 |
| 2027 | Friday, 5 November 2027 |
| 2028 | Tuesday, 24 October 2028 |
| 2029 | Monday, 12 November 2029 |
| 2030 | Saturday, 2 November 2030 |
| 2031 | Friday, 21 November 2031 |
| 2032 | Tuesday, 9 November 2032 |
| 2033 | Sunday, 30 October 2033 |
| 2034 | Saturday, 18 November 2034 |
| 2035 | Wednesday, 7 November 2035 |
| 2036 | Sunday, 26 October 2036 |
Worked out for Chennai, Lahiri ayanamsa. A date is a function of the place: set yours above and the next three come back for where you are.
What the day is
The four-day festival of Bihar, Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh for Surya and Chhathi Maiya. Nahay Khay on the Chaturthi, Kharna and the evening kheer on the Panchami, the sandhya arghya to the setting Sun standing in the river on the Shashti, and the usha arghya to the rising Sun on the Saptami morning, when the fast is finally broken.
- Deity
- Surya, Chhathi Maiya, Usha
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
Clock times for Monday, 16 November 2026 at Chennai
Kartika Shukla Saptami at sunrise: the arghya is given to the rising Sun standing in the water, and the fast of thirty six hours is broken after it.
| Instant | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 06:08 | the udaya tithi, the tithi running as the sun comes up |
Sunrise 06:08, sunset 17:39, UTC+5.5. These are the instants the rule is read at, not the temple's own puja times, which every temple prints for itself.
The fast
The hardest public fast kept in India: thirty-six hours without food or water from the Kharna meal to the morning arghya. Thekua, sugar cane, coconut and seasonal fruit fill the soop, the winnowing basket offered.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
- English
- Chhath Parana · Sama Chakeva begins
- हिन्दी
- छठ पूजा
- मैथिली
- छठ पारण
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
Where the regions differ
Bihar, Jharkhand, eastern Uttar Pradesh, Nepal's Terai and now every city those families have moved to. A smaller Chaiti Chhath is kept in Chaitra. The south does not keep it. In Mithila the same morning opens Sama Chakeva, when the clay figures of the sister and her brother bird are made and the girls begin the songs they sing to them each evening until Kartika Purnima.
The dates above are the Mithila reckoning, because that is the calendar this key belongs to. Switch the tradition on the calendar page to see how another one dates the same day.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.