Ganesh Chaturthi 2026: 14 September, but when is visarjan?
The festival date, your community’s immersion day and an institution’s holiday are three different things. Here’s how to read the 2026 dates.
Ganesh Chaturthi is on Monday, 14 September 2026. Both Solapur Municipal Corporation’s public-holiday list and the Supreme Court of India’s calendar give that date.
For anyone also searching for Ganesh visarjan 2026, the distinction matters: Anant Chaturdashi falls on Friday, 25 September 2026, according to Solapur’s list. But that does not make it every household’s immersion date.
Why 14 September and 25 September answer different questions
The opening festival date is supported beyond the holiday calendars: Incredible India’s Ganesh Chavath in Goa listing also dates Chaturthi to 14 September 2026.
The connection between the later date and visarjan is explicit in its Anant Chaturdashi event listing for Indore. That page gives 25 September 2026, names the Malwa Mill Area as the venue and describes a Ganesh Visarjan procession and idol immersion as part of the festival’s conclusion.
So these are not competing answers to the same date question. 14 September answers when Ganesh Chaturthi falls; 25 September is the Anant Chaturdashi date, with the Indore listing directly connecting it to a visarjan event. Neither entry, by itself, supplies the immersion schedule for another neighbourhood or family.
Is 25 September everyone’s visarjan day?
No single immersion date should be inferred from these listings. The Goa tourism page describes immersion schedules that vary by family and community. That is why a calendar search can answer the festival-date question without settling when a particular celebration ends.
For planning a visit, the useful distinction is between a festival date and an event appointment. The Indore page supports a dated event in Indore; it is not a timetable for processions elsewhere. Similarly, a household’s immersion day cannot be established simply by copying the Anant Chaturdashi date into a diary.
Does the festival date mean a day off?
A holiday calendar has its own boundaries. Solapur Municipal Corporation lists both Ganesh Chaturthi and Anant Chaturdashi. The Supreme Court lists Ganesh Chaturthi on 14 September but does not list Anant Chaturdashi among its holidays.
That difference is about which institution observes a holiday, not a disagreement over when Ganesh Chaturthi falls. Neither calendar establishes leave arrangements for every workplace or school across India.
The date to mark for Ganesh Chaturthi itself is therefore clear: Monday, 14 September 2026. Whether you are arranging leave or joining an immersion, the remaining question is narrower—and local: which institution’s holiday calendar or which celebration’s schedule applies?