Date to Day of Week

Wedding cards, exam hall tickets and “is 15 August a Friday this year?” arguments all need a weekday. 1 January 2026 is a Thursday in the Gregorian calendar this engine uses. The page is a calendar lookup, not an astrological muhurat.

A short pause

Families in Udaipur fixing a reception and offices in Gurugram checking a board-meeting date still open a search engine for this. IndiaKit answers with the English weekday name and the en-IN long date, without asking for a birth time or a gotra.

What this widget does

The date is parsed at local noon to avoid DST-less IST midnight edge cases in some engines. Default 2026-01-01 → Thursday, 1 January 2026.

Historical dates before the Gregorian reform are not “corrected” to Julian. Treat old family records with care.

Indian national holidays are not flagged. 26 January can be a Wednesday; that does not make it a working day.

1 January 2026, a Thursday

A Gurugram office wants to know whether New Year’s Day 2026 is a weekday for a client call. The tool prints Thursday. They still check whether the client’s country is on holiday; the weekday alone is not a business calendar.

Not indexed as the product

Gregorian dates only. No Hindu tithi, no Panchang, no shift-working rotas. Fun-category placement does not make this astrology.

Common questions

Does this follow the Hindu calendar?

No. It is the Gregorian date you typed. For tithi and nakshatra use a Panchang from an astrologer or a published almanac, knowing those are not this product.

Will 29 February 2028 show correctly?

Yes, leap days exist in Gregorian years divisible by 4, with century exceptions. 2028 is a leap year.

Can I see the weekday in Hindi?

The result string is English via en-IN locale (Thursday, not गुरुवार). Translate if you need a Hindi card.