Telugu festivals and calendar 2026 in Chicago

If you keep the Telugu calendar from Naperville, Schaumburg, Aurora, or Bartlett, or anywhere in Chicago, this is your year at a glance: the 2026 festival dates, and a calculator that finds your family's Telugu birthdays for local sunrise, not India's.

Find your Telugu birthday, Chicago time

A Telugu birthday is a tithi, the lunar day you were born on, and the day it counts is decided by the tithi present at local sunrise. Sunrise reaches Illinois about eleven and a half hours after India, so your tithi birthday can land a day earlier here than the date a panchangam from home would print. Enter a birth date below to see yours.

Find your Telugu birthday in Chicago

Enter a birth date and birthplace. Your Telugu (tithi) birthday is computed for Chicago sunrise, this year and next.

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Telugu festival dates for 2026

These are the 2026 festival dates by standard reckoning, the dates most Chicago temples and families observe. A festival's own day is set by where its tithi falls at the traditional time of observance, so it usually matches India. Your personal tithi birthdays are the ones that shift with local sunrise, which is what the calculator above is for.

Festival	2026 date
Makara Sankranti	Wed, Jan 14, 2026
Maha Shivaratri	Sun, Feb 15, 2026
Holi (Kamadahanam)	Tue, Mar 3, 2026
Ugadi (Telugu New Year)	Thu, Mar 19, 2026
Sri Rama Navami	Thu, Mar 26, 2026
Hanuman Jayanti	Thu, Apr 2, 2026
Varalakshmi Vratam	Fri, Aug 21, 2026
Raksha Bandhan (Rakhi Pournami)	Fri, Aug 28, 2026
Sri Krishna Janmashtami	Fri, Sep 4, 2026
Vinayaka Chaviti	Mon, Sep 14, 2026
Dussehra (Vijayadashami)	Tue, Oct 20, 2026
Deepavali (Diwali)	Sun, Nov 8, 2026
Karthika Pournami	Tue, Nov 24, 2026
Vaikunta Ekadasi	Sun, Dec 20, 2026

Keep exploring: all Telugu festivals in 2026, the full Telugu birthday calculator, or what a tithi is.

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