Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) 2026 in UK

The date in UK

Sunday, 8 November 2026

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

City by city

CityDateObservance time
London, England8 November 202616:45
Leicester, England8 November 202616:46
Birmingham, England8 November 202616:49
Manchester, England8 November 202616:47
Leeds, England8 November 202616:43
Glasgow, Scotland8 November 202616:46

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:

USACanadaAustraliaUAESingaporeMalaysiaGermanySouth AfricaNew Zealand

Other festivals in UK:

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

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