Moonrise today: when will the Moon rise?

The box at the top gives today’s moonrise for Nagpur, or for the city you pick, to the minute, and the table gives the next 7 days. Moonrise moves by about 50 minutes a day, so check the date you need.

Karwa Chauth 2026 is on Thursday, 29 October 2026. The Moon rises at about 8:12 pm in Delhi, 8:56 pm in Mumbai and 8:25 pm in Nagpur (IST). The table above lists 15 cities.

The Moon moves about 13° east along its orbit every day, so the Earth has to turn a little longer before the Moon comes up again. On average that takes about 50 minutes more, and the gap changes through the month and the year, from about half an hour to more than an hour.

Because of that daily delay, about once a month the moonrise slips past midnight. The Moon rises late in the evening one day and just after midnight on the day after next, so the calendar date in between has no moonrise at all. The same happens with moonset.

The Moon rises earlier in the east of India than in the west, about 4 minutes for each degree of longitude, so Kolkata sees it roughly an hour before Ahmedabad. Latitude matters too, together with how far north or south of the equator the Moon is that night.

On the day when the Chaturthi of the dark half (krishna paksha) is running at moonrise, because the fast ends with arghya to the Moon. When it is at moonrise on two days the first is taken here, and when it is at moonrise on neither, the day with Chaturthi at sunrise. Family traditions differ, so check with your panchang too.