Diwali 2026 in Australia

Also called Diwali (Lakshmi Puja), Deepavali.

The date in Australia

Sunday, 8 November 2026

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

City by city

CityDatePradosh Puja
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. For Diwali, the puja falls in the pradosh twilight just after sunset.

Lakshmi Puja is performed in the pradosh twilight after sunset.

Diwali in Australia, other years:

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.