Festival Guide
Ganesh Chaturthi 2026
Ganesh Chaturthi date, puja offerings, and visarjan context
Ganesh Chaturthi celebrates Lord Ganesha with home and community puja, modak offerings, devotional singing, and visarjan traditions.
Date
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Calendar basis
Bhadrapada lunar month
Default location
New Delhi, India. Use city pages for local panchang context.
About Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi celebrates Lord Ganesha with home and community puja, modak offerings, devotional singing, and visarjan traditions.
HinduLab treats festival dates as calendar events connected to tithi, paksha, lunar month, solar transition, or fixed-date rules depending on the observance. For daily ritual timing, pair this guide with the panchang and muhurat tools for your city.
Common Rituals
- Prepare a clean altar with flowers, lamp, durva grass, and modak.
- Invoke Ganesha with prayers for auspicious beginnings and obstacle removal.
- Offer sweets, fruits, incense, and aarti according to family tradition.
- Conclude home observance with visarjan on the chosen day.
Regional Notes
- Maharashtra is known for large public pandals and community celebrations.
- Many homes observe one-and-a-half, three, five, seven, or ten-day puja periods.
- Eco-friendly clay idols and local immersion guidelines are increasingly preferred.
Helpful HinduLab Tools
Festival dates can be shared across regions, but exact ritual windows may depend on sunrise, sunset, tithi boundaries, and local tradition.
How HinduLab Calculates Festival Dates
HinduLab combines computed vrat occurrences, lunar festival rules, solar Sankranti transitions, and fixed Gregorian observances. The annual festival calendar is generated for the default location and then connected to city-aware panchang tools for local timing context.
Read the calculation methodology