Days Until Diwali (reference)
Days until Diwali (reference)
Actual date follows the Hindu lunisolar calendar and shifts every year; treated here as a reference/awareness page, not a fixed recurring date.
About Diwali (reference)
Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights (also observed by many Sikhs, Jains, and some Buddhists with their own associated meanings), follows the Hindu lunisolar calendar and typically falls in October or November, with its exact Gregorian date shifting every year.
Rather than seed a specific yearly date that would go stale, this page functions as a reference/awareness page, deliberately pointing readers to a current Hindu lunisolar source instead of guessing at a fixed Gregorian date.
The festival's five-day structure includes distinct named days for different traditions and rituals, and its date calculation depends on specific lunar tithi (lunar day) rules that can occasionally shift the observed date by a full day between different regional and sectarian calendars.
The festival's association with the goddess Lakshmi and the lighting of oil lamps (diyas) gives the holiday its English name, "festival of lights," a description now widely used even outside Hindu contexts.
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