Search for devuthani ekadashi 2026 and you will get three different answers on the first page. That is not sloppiness — it is a genuinely awkward tithi this year. The Ekadashi begins after sunrise on Friday 20 November and ends before sunrise on Saturday 21 November, so it never actually touches a sunrise. Different traditions resolve that differently. This page gives the exact tithi window and parana times for Delhi, explains why the wedding season reopens here, and lists the first four vivah muhurats that follow.
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The short version for most north Indian households: the vrat is on Friday 20 November 2026, and Vaishnava families along with several regional calendars keep it on Saturday 21 November. Both are correct within their own rule. Neither is a typo.
DrikPanchang, with the location set to Delhi, lists Devutthana Ekadashi on Friday 20 November and Gauna Devutthana Ekadashi — the “secondary” observance — on Saturday 21 November. Dr R.P. Sharma’s festival page names Saturday 21 November in its main text, though an FAQ block lower on the same page says 20 November, so even a single source is not internally consistent here.
Daanyam also publishes 21 November. VedicMatch’s November muhurat page puts it on 20 November and dates Chaturmas as 25 July to 20 November 2026. We could not retrieve any dated content from bda.ai — the page returned no readable text — so it is excluded rather than guessed at.
The exact tithi window, and why it splits the calendars
Here are the numbers, from DrikPanchang’s Delhi panchang. Ekadashi tithi begins at 07:15 AM on 20 November 2026 and ends at 06:31 AM on 21 November 2026. Delhi sunrise on both days is 06:48 AM. Read that twice: the tithi starts 27 minutes after sunrise on the 20th and finishes 17 minutes before sunrise on the 21st.
So no sunrise in 2026 falls inside Kartika Shukla Ekadashi at Delhi. The Smarta rule takes the day on which the tithi is present for the greater part after sunrise, which gives 20 November. The Vaishnava rule prefers a day where Dwadashi is intact and avoids overlap with Dashami, which pushes the observance to 21 November as Gauna Ekadashi.
Dr R.P. Sharma computes the same tithi as 7:18 AM on 20 November to 6:32 AM on 21 November — within three minutes of DrikPanchang, which tells you the astronomy is agreed and only the observance rule differs. On 20 November the day actually opens on Dashami until 07:15 AM, under Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra until 06:56 AM.
| Event (Delhi) | Date & time IST | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ekadashi tithi begins | 07:15 AM, 20 Nov 2026 | DrikPanchang |
| Ekadashi tithi ends | 06:31 AM, 21 Nov 2026 | DrikPanchang |
| Devutthana Ekadashi vrat (Smarta) | Friday 20 Nov 2026 | DrikPanchang, VedicMatch |
| Gauna Devutthana Ekadashi | Saturday 21 Nov 2026 | DrikPanchang, Daanyam, Dr R.P. Sharma |
| Parana for the 20 Nov vrat | 01:10 PM – 03:18 PM, 21 Nov | DrikPanchang |
| Hari Vasara ends on parana day | 12:07 PM, 21 Nov | DrikPanchang |
| Parana for the 21 Nov vrat | 06:49 AM – 08:56 AM, 22 Nov | DrikPanchang |
Parana: when to break the fast
Parana is the meal that ends the vrat, and it has to fall inside a window — not simply “the next morning”. If you fasted on 20 November, DrikPanchang gives the parana window as 01:10 PM to 03:18 PM on 21 November for Delhi. That is later than most people expect, and it is because Hari Vasara, the first quarter of Dwadashi, does not end until 12:07 PM.
Breaking the fast during Hari Vasara is traditionally avoided, which is exactly why the window opens after noon this year rather than shortly after sunrise. If you kept the Gauna Ekadashi on 21 November instead, the parana is 06:49 AM to 08:56 AM on 22 November, with the caveat that Dwadashi is over before sunrise that day.
These times are for Delhi. Parana windows are anchored to local sunrise and to tithi end moments, so a family in Chennai or Ahmedabad will see a shifted window. Check your own city rather than assuming the Delhi figures travel.
Why the wedding season restarts on this day
Prabodhini Ekadashi — Devuthani, Devutthana, Dev Uthani, all the same day — is understood as Vishnu waking from yoga nidra. The four months before it are Chaturmas, and no marriage, griha pravesh or business opening is begun in that period.
In 2026 Chaturmas opens on Devshayani Ekadashi, Saturday 25 July, and closes on 20 November — DrikPanchang marks the 20th as “Chaturmasa Last Day” outright. That is a 118-day pause in which nothing auspicious is fixed, which is why the calendar reopening feels like a starting gun rather than a gentle change of gear.
The practical consequence for families is brutal arithmetic. The whole country is released at once, into a November that holds only four wedding dates, and then December closes again on the 16th when Kharmas begins. If your match is not settled, you are competing for the same halls as everyone else with no time to spare.
That is the reason to run the numbers now rather than in December. The 36 Guna check takes under a minute in Sahita on Google Play, works with no internet, and gives you the koota-by-koota breakdown both families will want to see before anyone calls a venue.
The first four vivah muhurats of the season
Once the pause lifts, this is what the calendar offers. Timings are IST for Delhi from DrikPanchang’s Vivah Muhurat page, cross-checked against VedicFeed, VedicMatch and Dr R.P. Sharma’s classical-rule list. The consensus column says how many of those four back the date.
| Date | Day | Tithi | Nakshatra | Muhurat window (IST, Delhi) | Consensus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Nov 2026 | Saturday | Dwadashi (until 04:56 AM, 22 Nov) | Revati (from 06:50 AM) | 06:48 AM – 12:08 AM (22 Nov) | All sources |
| 24 Nov 2026 | Tuesday | Pratipada (Purnima ends 08:23 PM) | Rohini (from 11:25 PM) | 11:25 PM – 06:52 AM (25 Nov) | Some sources (3 of 4) |
| 25 Nov 2026 | Wednesday | Pratipada, Dwitiya | Rohini, Mrigashira | 06:52 AM – 06:52 AM (26 Nov) | All sources |
| 26 Nov 2026 | Thursday | Dwitiya, Tritiya | Mrigashira | 06:52 AM – 05:47 PM | All sources |
The one disputed date is 24 November. It is a Tuesday, and it is Kartika Purnima, so the classical filter drops it while the panchang engines keep it with a window that only opens at 11:25 PM. Our full breakdown of each date sits in the vivaha muhurta 2026 guide for India, and the longer run of dates is in auspicious marriage dates 2026-2027.
Tulsi Vivah follows the next morning
On 21 November 2026 the Delhi panchang carries Tulasi Vivah alongside Gauna Devutthana Ekadashi. Tulsi Vivah is the ceremonial marriage of the tulsi plant to Shaligram, and it is treated across much of India as the first wedding of the season — the one that must happen before household marriages begin.
That is why 21 November carries double weight in 2026. It is simultaneously the Gauna Ekadashi, the Tulsi Vivah day, and the first available vivah muhurat, with a window that runs more than seventeen hours. Families who want the symbolism of marrying on the season’s opening day are all looking at the same Saturday.
Worth knowing if you are choosing between the two: the tithi on 21 November is Kartika Shukla Dwadashi, holding until 04:56 AM on 22 November, and the nakshatra is Revati from 06:50 AM. Astroyogi publishes exactly those Dwadashi moments, which is a useful independent confirmation of the DrikPanchang figures.
If a devuthani ekadashi 2026 wedding is what your family is weighing, the guna milan cannot wait for a temple appointment. Sahita’s free matching app computes the whole Ashta Koota on the handset, so both households can look at identical numbers the same evening.
What else opens up besides weddings
Chaturmas ending does not only release marriages. Griha pravesh, the first entry into a new home, resumes on the same principle, and so do vehicle purchases, property registration and formal business openings. Families who have been sitting on a completed flat since July usually move in the same fortnight.
Those muhurats run on their own filters, though, not the wedding list. A day can be clear for a housewarming and still fail for a marriage, because the nakshatra requirement is different. Our griha pravesh muhurat 2026 page and business start muhurat 2026 page carry the separate lists.
One caution that catches people out: 24 November 2026 is Dev Diwali, Guru Nanak Jayanti and Karthigai Deepam all at once. Temples and priests are fully committed that day, so even where a muhurat technically exists, the logistics may not.
How the day is kept at home
- Rise before sunrise, bathe, and take the sankalp for the vrat if you are fasting.
- Clean and decorate the tulsi vrindavan; draw rangoli around it and light lamps at dusk.
- Offer Vishnu fresh sugarcane from the new harvest, tulsi leaves, lotus and yellow cloth.
- Chant the waking verse — “Uttishtha Govinda, uttishtha Garudadhwaja” — at the shaligram or temple.
- Keep the fast in whichever form suits your strength: water only, milk, fruit, or a single evening meal.
- Break it inside the parana window: 01:10 PM to 03:18 PM on 21 November for the Delhi Smarta vrat.
Across north and central India, devuthani ekadashi 2026 is also the traditional day for fixing wedding dates and distributing cards. If that is your household, the practical preparation is having the match itself already settled, and the Sahita app on Google Play does that part free.
Settle the match before the season opens
A festival date is the same for everyone. A muhurat chosen for your pair is not. The pandit fixes the lagna — the rising sign at the moment of the pheras — only after the match is agreed, and with four dates in the month there is no slack in the schedule for a two-week detour.
Run the free kundali matching tool before the calls start. It gives the 36 Guna Ashta Koota total, all eight kootas individually, the Manglik position from Lagna, Moon and Venus for both charts, and the cancellations that apply — computed in your browser, with nothing uploaded anywhere.
Elders who prefer a printed sheet can take the result screen from the free Sahita app straight to the family pandit. It reads in eleven languages, needs no login, and works with the phone in flight mode. If your couple is already matched, wedding muhurta 2026 for matched couples is the next step.
Frequently asked questions
When is devuthani ekadashi 2026 exactly?
The Ekadashi tithi runs from 07:15 AM on 20 November 2026 to 06:31 AM on 21 November 2026 for Delhi. DrikPanchang places the main vrat on Friday 20 November and Gauna Devutthana Ekadashi on Saturday 21 November. Vaishnava households and several regional calendars keep the 21st; Smarta households generally keep the 20th.
Why do websites give different dates for this festival?
Because the tithi never touches a sunrise in 2026 — it starts 27 minutes after sunrise on the 20th and ends 17 minutes before sunrise on the 21st. Smarta and Vaishnava rules resolve that gap differently. The underlying astronomy is not in dispute; every source we checked computes the same tithi moments to within three minutes.
What is the parana time for Dev Uthani Ekadashi 2026?
For the 20 November vrat, parana is 01:10 PM to 03:18 PM on 21 November at Delhi, because Hari Vasara does not end until 12:07 PM. For the Gauna Ekadashi kept on 21 November, parana is 06:49 AM to 08:56 AM on 22 November. Both windows shift with your city’s sunrise.
When does the 2026 wedding season actually start?
Saturday 21 November 2026 is the first vivah muhurat, running 06:48 AM to 12:08 AM the next morning at Delhi under Revati nakshatra. Chaturmas began on Devshayani Ekadashi, 25 July 2026, and DrikPanchang marks 20 November as its last day. Nothing before the 21st clears the marriage filters.
Can we get married on Devuthani Ekadashi itself?
Not on 20 November — DrikPanchang shows that day still partially inside Chaturmas with no marriage muhurat. On 21 November, which is the Gauna Ekadashi and Tulsi Vivah, there is a full seventeen-hour window. So the answer depends on which day your family calls Devuthani, and 21 November is the one that works.
How long is the 2026 wedding window before it closes again?
About three and a half weeks. Dates run 21 to 26 November, then 2 to 12 December, and stop at Dhanu Sankranti on 16 December 2026 at 10:29 AM, when Kharmas begins. Nothing reopens until 15 January 2027. That short runway is why families fix the match well before the festival.
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