The Hindu festival of Chhath Puja in 2025 will be celebrated for four days, starting on Saturday, October 25, 2025, and concluding on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
The festival is dedicated to Lord Surya (the Sun God) and Chhathi Maiya and is primarily celebrated in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh. It is known for its extreme rigor, discipline, and profound connection to nature.

Chhath Puja 2025 Schedule
The four-day festival follows a strict schedule of rituals, each with its own spiritual significance.

Day	Date (2025)	Event	Significance
Day 1	October 25 (Saturday)	Nahay Khay	Devotees take a holy dip (often in the Ganga river) and prepare and eat a single, pure, satvik meal to cleanse the body and mind.
Day 2	October 26 (Sunday)	Kharna or Lohanda	A day-long fast without water is observed. The fast is broken in the evening after offering a special prasad (typically kheer and roti) to the Sun God. This marks the beginning of the 36-hour Nirjala Vrat (fast without food or water).
Day 3	October 27 (Monday)	Sandhya Arghya (Main Day)	Devotees maintain the 36-hour waterless fast. They gather at the banks of a river, pond, or water body to offer the evening Arghya (offerings) to the setting Sun (Pratyusha).
Day 4	October 28 (Tuesday)	Usha Arghya and Parana	Devotees return to the water body before dawn to offer the morning Arghya to the rising Sun (Usha). After this final offering, the 36-hour fast is broken (Parana).

The main day of the festival, when the evening offerings are made, is on the Shashthi Tithi of the bright fortnight in the Hindu month of Kartika, which is October 27, 2025.
Key Rituals

• Rigorous Fasting: The main phase is the 36-hour Nirjala Vrat, where the main devotee abstains from both food and water.
• Worship in Water: Devotees stand waist-deep in water (at rivers, lakes, or ghats) to offer the Arghya to the Sun during both sunset and sunrise.
• Offerings (Prasad): Offerings are prepared with utmost purity and traditionally include seasonal fruits, sugarcane, coconuts, and a sweet made from wheat flour and jaggery called Thekua.
• Purity and Simplicity: The festival emphasizes a high degree of cleanliness and purity in everything from the food preparation to the clothes worn. Worshippers typically use bamboo baskets (soops) to hold the offerings.

The festival is one of the few major Hindu festivals where worship is performed without a priest, symbolizing a direct and humble connection with the life-giving energy of the sun and the natural world.

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