Sankashti Chaturthi September 2026 — 29 September
సంకష్టహర చతుర్థి September 2026
Angaraki Vighnaraja Sankashti falls on Tuesday, 29 September 2026. Sankashti Chaturthi is the fourth tithi of the waning fortnight, kept for Ganapati. The fast runs from sunrise and is broken only after the moon has been sighted, so it is the moonrise — not sunset — that ends the day. One falls in each lunar month, and when it lands on a Tuesday it is Angaraki Sankashti, held the most consequential of the year.
| Date | Name | Telugu | Masa & Paksha | Moonrise (Hyderabad) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2026Tuesday | Angaraki Vighnaraja Sankashti | అంగారక విఘ్నరాజ సంకష్టహర చతుర్థి | Bhadrapada Krishna | 7:55 PM |
Computed for Hyderabad (17.385°N, 78.486°E) with Lahiri ayanamsa. For your own city use Today's Panchangam, which is location-aware.
What the day is for
Angaraki Vighnaraja Sankashti — Tuesday, 29 September 2026
A Tuesday Sankashti, which is Angaraki — held the most fruitful of the twelve, and said to carry the merit of a year of the others. The Sankashti of Ganesha’s own month, the fortnight after Vinayaka Chaturthi.
How the day is kept
- Sankalpa at sunrise. After bathing, the intention is stated before Ganapati — that the fast is kept for the removal of an obstacle, which is what sankashta-hara means.
- Fast through the day. Most keep phalahara — fruit, milk, and the sabudana, samak rice and groundnut foods a vrata allows. A stricter observance takes only water.
- Puja in the evening. Ganapati is offered durva grass in bunches, red flowers, and modak or laddu. The Sankashtanashana Ganesha Stotra and the Ganesha Atharvashirsha are the two texts customarily recited.
- Arghya to the moon. When the moon has been sighted, water is offered to it with sandal paste and rice, and only then is the fast broken. The moonrise is the whole point of the day — a fast broken before it is not this vrata.
- The meal. Taken after the arghya, satvik, with the modak offered to Ganapati first.
The moonrise above is for Hyderabad
It is the one figure on this page that changes materially with where you are. The same moon rises roughly fifteen to twenty minutes later in Mumbai, around half an hour later in Delhi, and earlier in Chennai and Kolkata. If you are keeping the fast outside Hyderabad, break it on your own city's moonrise — Today's Panchangam computes it from your location — and read the time here as the reference rather than the rule.
29 September 2026 — Angaraki Sankashti
A Sankashti Chaturthi falling on a Tuesday is Angaraki Sankashti — Angaraka is Mangala, Mars, whose day it is. The tradition holds it the most consequential Sankashti of the year, and it is the one kept by people who do not keep the monthly fast otherwise. It is also used for the pacification of Kuja (Mangal) Dosha, with the ordinary Ganapati vrata joined to a recitation of the Hanuman Chalisa.