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Karwa Chauth 2025: Like every year, this time too the festival of Karva Chauth will be celebrated with enthusiasm and devotion across the country. This festival is considered a symbol of unwavering love, dedication and faith for Hindu married women. On this day, married women observe Nirjala fast from sunrise to moonrise and pray for their husband’s long life, good health and happy married life.

Special enthusiasm for this festival is seen from North India to West India. With time, this festival has become very popular among Indians settled abroad. NRIs living in America, Britain and Canada also observe this fast with the same faith as women living in India.

date of karva chauth in india

This year Karva Chauth will be celebrated in India on Friday, October 10. The fast will start at 6:19 am and will end with moonrise at 8:13 pm. On this day, married women pray for the long life of their husbands without consuming water for the whole day.

Date and time of Karva Chauth 2025 in America (New York)

Karva Chauth will be celebrated in the United States on Thursday, October 9, 2025.

• Puja Muhurat: 6:25 pm to 7:40 pm (1 hour 16 minutes)

• Fasting time: 7:01 am to 7:42 pm (12 hours 41 minutes)

• Moonrise time: 7:42 pm

• Chaturthi date: October 9 from 1:24 pm to October 10 at 10:08 am

Karva Chauth 2025 timings in UK (London)

In London also, the fast of Karva Chauth will be observed on Thursday, 9 October 2025.

• Puja Muhurat: 6:20 pm to 7:37 pm (1 hour 18 minutes)

• Fasting time: 7:15 am to 6:54 pm (11 hours 39 minutes)

• Moonrise time: 6:54 pm

• Chaturthi date: 9 October 6:24 pm to 10 October 3:08 pm

Karva Chauth 2025 timing and moonrise in Canada (Toronto)

Indians living in Canada will also celebrate Karva Chauth on Thursday, October 9, 2025.

• Puja Muhurat: 6:44 pm to 8:00 pm (1 hour 16 minutes)

• Fasting time: 7:25 am to 7:54 pm (12 hours 29 minutes)

• Moonrise time: 7:54 pm

• Chaturthi date: October 9 from 1:24 pm to October 10 at 10:08 am

Importance and traditions of Karva Chauth

On the day of Karva Chauth, women do Solah Shringar, wear traditional clothes and perform special Karva Chauth puja. Houses are beautifully decorated and in the evening the fast is broken by offering Arghya to the moon. In modern times, husbands also keep fast with their wives to show their love and equality towards them.

Karva Chauth festival will resonate in foreign countries too

Indian communities settled in America, Britain and Canada celebrate this festival as a mark of their culture. Worship, story telling and mass moon darshan are organized in temples, community halls and homes.