Festivals this month
No major festivals this month.
Vratams this month
About May 2026
May 2026 spans the lunar months of Vaishakha and Jyeshtha. It opens on Pournami, with the moon in Tula, and closes on Pournami. The grid above shows every day's tithi and the exact time it ends — a tithi rarely fills a calendar day, so the end time is what tells you how much of it is left.
This month the full moon falls on Friday, 1 May 2026 and Sunday, 31 May 2026, and the new moon on Saturday, 16 May 2026. Two of the same phase in one Gregorian month is ordinary — the lunar cycle is about twenty-nine and a half days, so it drifts against the calendar.
No major festival falls in May 2026, but the monthly vratams below run as they always do — Ekadashi twice, Pradosham twice, and the rest on their own tithis.
Days are getting longer through the month: the daylight period runs 13h 01m on the first and 13h 27m on the last. That matters more than it sounds, because rahu kalam, yamagandam and gulika kalam are each an eighth of the daylight period — so they shift and change length along with it. The timings on each day's page are computed for the city you have selected.