Raksha Bandhan 2026: Date, Purnima Tithi and Day Panchang
Friday 28 August 2026 — the full-moon day, its panchang, and the windows worth knowing
Raksha Bandhan in 2026 falls on Friday, 28 August — the Purnima (full moon) of the Shukla paksha, as computed by our panchang engine for New Delhi. On that day: sunrise 5:57 AM, Moon in Kumbha (Aquarius) in Shatabhisha nakshatra, Rahu Kalam 10:46 AM–12:22 PM (commonly avoided), Abhijit muhurta 11:56 AM–12:48 PM.
Every festival season the same two questions arrive: which date is it really, and what time should we avoid? Here is the engine-computed answer for Raksha Bandhan 2026, published a month ahead so you can plan travel and posts around it.
The date, and why it is the 28th
Raksha Bandhan is observed on the Purnima — the full-moon tithi — of the month of Shravana. In 2026 that Purnima falls on Friday, 28 August: our engine's calendar shows the full-moon tithi on the 28th, with the festival on the same day. (Amavasya for that fortnight falls on 12 August, and the month's Pradosham on 26 August, which is how the fortnight lines up.)
The day's panchang at a glance (New Delhi)
- Day: Friday, 28 August 2026 · Shukla Purnima
- Sunrise / sunset: 5:57 AM / 6:48 PM · Moonrise: 6:58 PM
- Nakshatra at sunrise: Shatabhisha · Moon rashi: Kumbha (Aquarius) · Sun rashi: Simha (Leo)
- Yoga / Karana at sunrise: Atiganda / Bava
- Rahu Kalam: 10:46 AM – 12:22 PM (the window tradition avoids for auspicious beginnings)
- Abhijit muhurta: 11:56 AM – 12:48 PM · Brahma muhurta: 4:21 – 5:09 AM
About Bhadra (the honest note)
Tradition holds that rakhi is not tied during Bhadra. Bhadra windows depend on the karana sequence through the day and on your city — a single all-India time would be false precision. Rather than print a number we cannot stand behind for your location, we say: open the panchang tool for your own city on 28 August and read the day's windows there, or ask an astrologer during a consultation.
Check it yourself
If you open the panchang for 28 August 2026, then you should see the full-moon tithi, Shatabhisha nakshatra and the Rahu Kalam window above — the same engine computes both this article and the tool, so they cannot disagree. That is the standard we hold every date claim to.
Where we disagree with the copy-paste festival pages
Most festival pages republish one another's timings, sometimes for the wrong year or the wrong city, with no way to verify. Our numbers come from one auditable ephemeris engine, and we would rather give you fewer numbers that check out than a page full of unverifiable precision.
Sources & data: date and all timings computed 23 July 2026 by the VedicSpace hora engine (festival calendar + full-day panchang, New Delhi coordinates, IST). Timings vary slightly by city — use the panchang tool for yours.
Frequently asked
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Cite this article
If you reference this piece in academic work, journalism, or another website, please use:
Deepshikha Mishra. . "Raksha Bandhan 2026: Date, Purnima Tithi and Day Panchang." The AstroMata Journal, 3 Aug 2026. https://astromata.com/blog/raksha-bandhan-2026-date-muhurat/. Accessed 3 Aug 2026.
Deepshikha Mishra is the Co-Founder of AstroMata and a practicing Vedic astrologer with 15 years of experience and 32,000+ consultations. She is the creator of Quantrology — a methodology that applies principles of Quantum Physics to Vedic chart reading. Her horoscope matching practice is anchored in the Phaladīpikā, not in software-generated compatibility scores. Based in Guna, Madhya Pradesh.
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