Karwa Chauth Moon Time 2025: City-wise exact moonrise timings, when to break fast in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, other cities

Karwa Chauth Moonrise time 2025: Married woman across the country wait for this auspicious day for fasting for long life for their husband. Karwa Chauth is one of the most important Hindu festivals for married women in northern India. The festiival is observed during Krishna Paksha Chaturthi of the Kartik month. Married women, specially in North India, fast from sunrise to moonrise, praying for the long life, health, and happiness of their husbands.

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Karwa Chauth moonrise Timing 2025 Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, other cities

City	Moonrise Time
New Delhi	8:13 PM
Noida	8:13 PM
Gurugram	8:14 PM
Chandigarh	8:09 PM
Jaipur	8:22 PM
Lucknow	8:18 PM
Kanpur	8:17 PM
Varanasi	8:05 PM
Patna	8:01 PM
Mumbai	8:55 PM
Pune	8:52 PM
Ahmedabad	8:47 PM
Surat	8:49 PM
Bengaluru	8:48 PM
Chennai	8:38 PM
Hyderabad	8:36 PM
Kolkata	7:42 PM
Bhopal	8:25 PM
Indore	8:27 PM
Nagpur	8:30 PM
Raipur	8:32 PM
Thiruvananthapuram	8:20 PM
Kochi	8:24 PM
Guwahati	7:50 PM
Srinagar	7:58 PM

When to Break the Karwa Chauth Fast in Your City

Karwa Chauth 2025: Puja Muhurat: 5:57 PM – 7:11 PM
Karwa Chauth 2025 Upvas (fast) Time: 6:19 AM – 8:13 PM

Karwa Chauth 2025: Tips for Observing Karva Chauth Fast

The festival begins with Sargi, a nourishing pre-dawn meal that typically includes fruits, nuts, milk, and sweets. After Sargi, women cleanse themselves, wear traditional attire, and mentally prepare to observe the fast.

Throughout the day, women maintain purity in thoughts and actions, reciting mantras and avoiding heavy chores. In special cases such as pregnancy, illness, or menstruation, partial fasts or leniencies are permitted.

In the evening, the Karwa Chauth Puja is performed with a thali of essential items, including:

• Karwa (earthen or metal pot)
• Diya (lamp), incense, flowers, rice, milk, ghee, sweets
• Sieve (channi) for moon viewing
• Pictures or idols of Shiva, Parvati, and Karwa Mata
• Red or yellow cloths, bangles, sindoor, and mehndi
• Karwa Chauth Katha and Puja Vidhi

The legend of Veeravati is central to the festival. Veeravati, observing her first Karwa Chauth fast, ended it prematurely due to a trick by her brothers, only to learn of her husband’s death. Her devotion and strict observance of the fast in the following year ultimately brought him back to life. This story is narrated during the puja to inspire faith and devotion.

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Karwa Chauth puja:

Preparation: Cleansing the puja space and arranging the puja thali.
Invocation: Lighting the diya, offering incense, and praying to Ganesha, Parvati, Shiva, and Karwa Mata.
Offerings: Flowers, rice, milk, ghee, sweets, and fruits are offered to the deities.
Recitation: Listening to the Karwa Chauth Katha and chanting mantras.
Moonrise ritual: Viewing the moon through a sieve and offering Arghya.
Breaking the fast: Husbands symbolically feed their wives, completing the fast.

Karwa Chauth is more than a ritual fast; it represents marital devotion, self-discipline, and faith. Following the vrat vidhi, puja samagri, and katha with sincerity adds spiritual depth to the celebration, reinforcing cultural traditions and the bond between husband and wife.