Days Until Diwali

This live countdown shows how many days are left until the next Diwali, the festival of lights. Diwali follows the Hindu lunar calendar, so unlike Christmas or New Year it does not fall on the same Gregorian date each year — it lands in October or November depending on the new moon of the month of Kartik. This page tracks the correct upcoming date for you and refreshes automatically every time you open it, then rolls forward to the following year's Diwali once the day has passed.

Because it always points to the very next Diwali, you can bookmark it and it will stay right year after year without any changes. A clear number of days is genuinely useful in the run-up: it is time to book travel home, order sweets and gifts before the rush, plan the Lakshmi Puja and the rangoli, arrange new clothes, and sort out diyas, lights, and fireworks. As the count falls, it is an easy nudge to keep the preparations on track.

The result also shows which weekday the coming Diwali falls on, which shapes how the holiday and any leave around it line up. The figure is anchored to today's date and computed in a timezone-safe way, so it reads the same wherever you are, and the whole calculation runs privately in your browser.

To use it, just read the number — the days until Diwali appear automatically. On the day itself the page tells you Diwali is here rather than showing a countdown, and you can point the picker at any other date to count toward a different occasion. The upcoming dates it uses are 8 November 2026, 29 October 2027, and 17 October 2028.

For other Indian festivals, the days until Holi page counts down to the festival of colours, and the days until date calculator counts toward any date you choose. To plan around bank closures, the India holiday calendar and the bank working days (India) calculator both take the national holidays into account.

The countdown is the number of whole days from today to the next Diwali, taken from a list of verified festival dates and calculated at UTC midnight so it is timezone-safe. Once the upcoming Diwali has passed, the page automatically targets the next date in the list. On the day itself the count is zero.