Ganesh Chaturthi 2026 in Australia
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
In India it is Monday, 14 September 2026 — Australia observes a day later.
Australia does not observe on a single date this year. Cities far enough apart in longitude can fall either side of the tithi boundary — the table below gives the date for each. This is real, not a rounding artefact: the qualifying moment can sit minutes inside the window in one city and minutes outside it in another.
City by city
| City | Date | Observance time |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney, NSW | 15 September 2026 | 11:50 |
| Brisbane, Queensland | 15 September 2026 | 11:43 |
| Canberra, ACT | 15 September 2026 | 11:59 |
| Melbourne, Victoria | 14 September 2026 | 12:16 |
| Perth, Western Australia | 14 September 2026 | 12:12 |
| Adelaide, South Australia | 14 September 2026 | 12:11 |
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.
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.