Trayodashi Kab Hai? All Trayodashi Dates & Timings

The next Trayodashi vrat is Ravi Pradosh on Sunday, 22 November 2026 (Shukla paksha); Trayodashi runs 22 Nov 4:57 AM to 23 Nov 2:37 AM (New Delhi).

Vrat days and tithi times for New Delhi (IST), from our panchang engine (Lahiri ayanamsa), matched against DrikPanchang.

Past dates are shown faded. Each vrat name opens that month’s vrat page, with the puja timings.

Why Trayodashi matters

Trayodashi, the thirteenth tithi, has Kamadeva as its lord in Muhurta Chintamani, but it is known everywhere for Pradosh Vrat — the twilight worship of Shiva and Parvati kept on the Trayodashi of both pakshas. “Pradosh” is the junction of day and night; tradition holds that Shiva dances in that hour, so the puja is done in the pradosh kaal, the window that opens at sunset. A Pradosh takes its name from the weekday — Som Pradosh on Monday, Bhaum Pradosh on Tuesday, Shani Pradosh on Saturday and so on — and the Saturday and Monday ones are the most sought after. The Krishna Trayodashi of Kartik is Dhanteras (Dhantrayodashi), which opens Diwali. Devotees bathe before dusk, bathe the Shivling with water and milk, offer bel leaves and a lamp, and hear the Pradosh katha. The merits tradition attaches to the vrat are given here as context, not as promises.

Because Pradosh is kept in both halves of the month, Trayodashi gives about twenty-four or twenty-five vrat days a year. The Shukla Trayodashi comes two days before Purnima and the Krishna Trayodashi two days before Amavasya; the Krishna one is usually followed a day later by Masik Shivratri, on Chaturdashi.

How the date is fixed

Each row above is a vrat day, fixed by our panchang engine for New Delhi and matched against DrikPanchang. A tithi can begin at any hour, so the vrat day is not simply “the day the tithi starts”. The general rule is udaya tithi — the tithi present at sunrise names the day — but each vrat adds its own deciding hour: Pradosh needs Trayodashi during the pradosh kaal at dusk, so the vrat is often kept on the day the tithi begins in the afternoon. That is why the date in the first column can be the day before the tithi touches a sunrise, and why regional panchangs sometimes differ by a day. The tithi window column gives the exact span in IST, so you can check any row yourself. Month names in the text (Kartik, Margashirsha, Magha and so on) follow the North Indian purnimanta calendar; in the amanta calendar a Krishna-paksha day belongs to the month before.

Kamadeva is the lord of Trayodashi in the classical table. With Tritiya and Ashtami it forms the Jaya (“victorious”) group of tithis.

Trayodashi — common questions

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