Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) 2026 in Australia

The date in Australia

Sunday, 8 November 2026

Same as India this year (Sunday, 8 November 2026).

City by city

CityDateObservance time
Sydney, NSW8 November 202619:51
Melbourne, Victoria8 November 202620:23
Brisbane, Queensland8 November 202618:33
Perth, Western Australia8 November 202619:09
Adelaide, South Australia8 November 202620:13
Canberra, ACT8 November 202620:02

Times are local to each city, computed from its own coordinates and real UTC offset for that date — so daylight saving is already accounted for.

Lakshmi Puja is performed in the pradosh twilight after sunset.

Why the date can differ from India

A tithi is a 12° step of the Moon's elongation from the Sun. It begins and ends at a single instant everywhere on Earth. What changes by location is whether the moment the rule points at — sunrise, sunset or moonrise — falls inside that window on a given local date. That is why the shift runs opposite to the timezone: places west of India can observe a day earlier, places east a day later.

Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) elsewhere:

USACanadaUKUAESingaporeMalaysiaGermanySouth AfricaNew Zealand

Other festivals in Australia:

Karva ChauthDhanterasNavratri (first day)Dussehra (Vijayadashami)Krishna JanmashtamiGanesh ChaturthiMaha ShivaratriHoli (Purnima)

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