Māsik Durgāṣṭamī is Śukla Aṣṭamī every lunar month — Durgā's monthly eighth, kept at sunrise tithi for your place. The next date on this page is for the city you have set, not a single all-India civil day. Āśvina Śukla Aṣṭamī in Navarātri is still this monthly day, and this site also names it Durgāṣṭamī; the two are not merged. On the Panchang the civil date follows the civil day when Śukla Aṣṭamī is present at local sunrise. Because tithi and nakṣatra boundaries are reckoned from local sunrise, the same observance can fall a day earlier or later in another city. Significance is simple: the eighth bright tithi is Durgā's. Families who keep a monthly Durgā vrata light a lamp, offer red flowers or a simple naivedya, and recite her names or a stotra they already know. There is no one all-India kathā that must be read on every monthly Aṣṭamī; Navarātri carries the longer telling. Kālāṣṭamī is a different monthly day — Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī — and stays on its own page. Vidhi at home varies by family. Some keep a fruit or milk fast until evening pūjā; some take a simple meal and only do lamp and namaskāra; some visit a Durgā or village-goddess shrine. Do not treat one North Indian fast menu as the rule for every house. Skip starting the pūjā in Rāhu kālam, Yamagaṇḍam, or Guḷikai if that is your custom. Finish according to the priest or elder you follow. This site marks the civil day when Śukla Aṣṭamī is present at local sunrise. The table below lists every such day in the year for your place. Āśvina's row stays in this monthly list and is also Durgāṣṭamī in Navarātri — open that page for the nine-night rites, keep this page for the monthly calendar. Confirm the tithi on your local pañcāṅga if the family follows a different sunrise school. Dates below for 2026 are computed from sunrise at your selected place. The same vrata can fall on an adjacent civil day in another city.
