Discover complete details for Kanpur Chhath Puja 2025, including Sandhya Arghya sunset time, Usha Arghya sunrise, Muhurat, Puja Vidhi, Kharna Prasad, and rituals observed by devotees along the Ganga ghats. (Image Credit: Google AI Studio)
Kanpur Chhath Puja 2025 Sunset Time: Chhath Puja, which is one of the most revered festivals worshiping the Sun God and Chhathi Mata, will be observed with deep faith throughout Kanpur in 2025. The festival, recognized for its rich customs and eco-spiritual traditions, holds four days of fasting, bathing, and worshiping the setting and rising sun with an offering of 'arghya'.
While thousands of followers throng the banks of Ganga and other bodies of water, take a detailed look at the Kanpur Chhath Puja 2025 sunset time, Sandhya Arghya muhurat, rituals, Puja Vidhi, and Kharna Prasad details.
In 2025, the Sandhya Arghya evening ritual is conducted on the third day of the festival, in accordance with sunset as devotees flocked to the ghats of Kanpur to make their offerings.
The last morning worship to the rising sun, Usha Arghya, during Chhath Puja 2025 will be held on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. The devotees in Kanpur will assemble at riverbanks or canal banks early in the morning to perform this important ritual.
For day three of the festival Monday, October 27, 2025 there is the Sandhya Arghya ceremony. Based on local calendars, the time of sunset that night is the time window for offering.
On the second day of fasting Sunday/Monday, October 26/27, 2025 followers keep the Kharna vrat. At Kanpur, the late afternoon is spent preparing and offering prasad of rice and jaggery, which is distributed before the longer fast resumes.
The Shashthi Tithi for 2025 starts early on October 27 and ends on October 28. This muhurat instructs when the main rituals particularly Sandhya Arghya and Usha Arghya should be carried out for optimum importance.
Preparations involve washing the puja site by a river or canal, preparing pure vegetarian food, preparing offerings such as thekua, fruits, and sugar-cane. While performing Sandhya and Usha rituals, the devotees stand in the direction while facing the right direction in water, make the arghya offering, recite hymns, and distribute prasad.
During the evening of October 27, 2025, the principal Sandhya Arghya of the festival occurs at around sunset. Though minute-by-minute precise times differ slightly by location, the overall window of sunset defines this important observance.
