Karthika Masam 2026 in Karnataka
Karthika Masam 2026 in Karnataka: the key days of the month, and the districts with their mapped Hindu temples. Open a district, then a sub-district, to reach a village's own page with its sunset times and nearby temples.
- Verified village-specific: none yet
- Community-reported: none yet
- General Karthika practice (regional)
Districts of Karnataka
| Area | Mapped temples |
|---|---|
| Bagalkote | 49 |
| Ballari | 16 |
| Belagavi | 39 |
| Bengaluru Rural | 24 |
| Bengaluru South | 24 |
| Bengaluru Urban | 1,005 |
| Bidar | 21 |
| Chamarajanagar | 20 |
| Chikkaballapura | 20 |
| Chikkamagaluru | 88 |
| Chitradurga | 35 |
| Dakshina Kannada | 151 |
| Davanagere | 56 |
| Dharwad | 51 |
| Gadag | 12 |
| Hassan | 133 |
| Haveri | 11 |
| Kalaburagi | 56 |
| Kodagu | 13 |
| Kolar | 21 |
| Koppal | 20 |
| Mandya | 52 |
| Mysuru | 179 |
| Raichur | 30 |
| Shivamogga | 69 |
| Tumakuru | 78 |
| Udupi | 175 |
| Uttara Kannada | 73 |
| Vijayanagara | 72 |
| Vijayapura | 4 |
| Yadgir | 242 |
Key days of Karthika Masam 2026
| Observance | Date | Day | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karthika Masam begins | Tue 10 Nov | Tuesday | — |
| Nagula Chavithi | Fri 13 Nov | Friday | — |
| Skanda Sashti | Sun 15 Nov | Sunday | — |
| First Karthika Somavaram | Mon 16 Nov | Monday | Vrishchika Sankranti |
| Ksheerabdi Dwadasi · Tulasi Vivaham | Sat 21 Nov | Saturday | Drik Panchang (Hyderabad) gives 21 November; some regional panchangams keep Ksheerabdi Dwadasi on 22 November. Confirm with your temple. |
| Second Karthika Somavaram | Mon 23 Nov | Monday | Vaikuntha Chaturdashi |
| Karthika Pournami | Tue 24 Nov | Tuesday | Karthigai Deepam, Dev Diwali, Guru Nanak Jayanti |
| Third Karthika Somavaram | Mon 30 Nov | Monday | — |
| Fourth Karthika Somavaram | Mon 7 Dec | Monday | Karthika Masa Shivaratri |
| Karthika Amavasya — the month ends | Tue 8 Dec | Tuesday | — |
Dates may vary by regional panchangam — confirm with your temple.
Karthika Somavarams (the four Mondays)
Mondays of the month, kept for Shiva. The evening lamp is lit at sunset; the sunset for each Monday is in the table.
- Mon 16 Nov — First Karthika Somavaram · Vrishchika Sankranti
- Mon 23 Nov — Second Karthika Somavaram · Vaikuntha Chaturdashi
- Mon 30 Nov — Third Karthika Somavaram
- Mon 7 Dec — Fourth Karthika Somavaram · Karthika Masa Shivaratri
Karthika Pournami
Tue 24 Nov · Karthigai Deepam, Dev Diwali, Guru Nanak Jayanti
Dates may vary by regional panchangam — confirm with your temple. Tithi end times, snanam and puja muhurat: HinduTone's day-by-day calendar (Drik Panchang).
In the Telugu and Kannada states, Karthika Masam is kept with an early-morning bath, a lamp lit at sunset each evening, Shiva worship on the Mondays and Tulasi worship at home; Karthika Pournami is the night of many lamps at temples. How any one village keeps the month is for its residents to tell — nothing below is claimed about this village in particular.
Meaning, vratham and mantras (HinduTone)
- Karthika Masam 2026: dates, festivals and the deepam tradition (External site)
- Karthika Masam 2026 calendar, day by day (tithis and muhurat) (External site)
- Karthika Somavaram 2026 dates in India (External site)
- Karthika Masam 2026 deepam and snanam timings, city-wise (External site)
- How to perform Karthika Masam vratham at home (External site)
- Karthika Pournami 2026 (External site)
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- Dates: Drik Panchang (Hyderabad day panchang), as published by HinduTone; retrieved 8 November 2026. Karthika Masam 2026 calendar, day by day · Karthika Masam 2026: dates, festivals and the deepam tradition · Karthika Somavaram 2026 dates in India
- Sunrise and sunset: computed for this point with the NOAA solar-position equations, Indian Standard Time, rounded to the minute (about ±1 minute).