Hindu Festivals 2027: Month-by-Month Calendar with Dates

Short answer: The main Hindu festivals 2027 brings are Makar Sankranti on 15 January, Vasant Panchami on 11 February, Maha Shivratri on 6 March, Holi on 22 March, Ram Navami on 15 April, Raksha Bandhan on 17 August, Ganesh Chaturthi on 4 September, Dussehra on 9 October and Diwali on 29 October. Every date below follows the New Delhi sunrise in IST, and the detailed pages carry the timings.

Updated 8 November 2026

I keep this page as the index for everything I publish about the 2027 calendar. If a festival or muhurat has its own page, the link is in the table. Where two respected panchangs disagree on a day, I show both rather than pick one and hide the other.

Hindu festivals 2027: January to March

The year opens inside Dhanu kharmas, the Sun’s month in Sagittarius, so the first fortnight of January is quiet for weddings and house-warmings. Everything changes on the night of 14 January, when the Sun moves into Capricorn.

This is the busiest quarter for muhurats, squeezed between two kharmas. Dhanu kharmas ends with Sankranti, and Meena kharmas starts on 15 March, so families who want a wedding or griha pravesh before summer have about eight weeks. My marriage muhurat 2027 and griha pravesh muhurat 2027 pages go through those weeks date by date.

The quarter also holds the first eclipse of the year, a penumbral lunar one in the early hours of 21 February. It is faint and tradition keeps no sutak for it; the details are on my eclipse 2027 page.

A practical note for January. Pongal, Sankranti and Uttarayan fall on a Friday this year, so many offices in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat will have a long weekend from 14 to 17 January. Temples and highways get crowded. If you are travelling home for the festival, book early, and if a griha pravesh is planned for that weekend, fix the priest before the hall.

February is the quietest month of the quarter for big festivals but one of the busiest for families. Vasant Panchami is a favourite day for weddings in the north, for a child’s first letters across the country, and for Saraswati Puja in Bengal and Odisha, all on the same Thursday. Magha is also the month of the Kumbh-style river baths at Prayagraj, and many older people go to the Magh Mela at Prayagraj or take the Magh snan at home from Pausha Purnima to Magha Purnima.

March packs in the most change. Shivratri, the Somvati Amavasya two days later, then Holashtak, Meena kharmas and Holi follow one another inside three weeks. For anyone who wants to start something in this month, I usually point them to the first ten days, before Holashtak, or ask them to wait for Chaitra Navratri.

April to June 2027: new year, Navratri and summer fasts

April brings the lunar new year for most of India, and with it Chaitra Navratri. In Bengaluru, where I work, Ugadi is the day half the city wants to sign something.

The nine days of Chaitra Navratri, with the Ghatasthapana window, are on my vrat calendar 2027, together with every Sankashti, Pradosh and Masik Shivratri of the year. All 25 Ekadashis, including Nirjala, are on the Ekadashi 2027 list.

This quarter carries one large planetary change. Saturn moves from Pisces into Aries on 3 June 2027, and for a third of the country’s Moon signs the mood of the year changes with it. My Saturn transit 2027 page reads it sign by sign.

April is the month of new years. The lunar new year, Ugadi and Gudi Padwa, comes first on 7 April, and the solar new year follows a week later as Baisakhi in Punjab, Vishu in Kerala, Puthandu in Tamil Nadu and Pohela Boishakh in Bengal. For Kannada and Telugu families in Bengaluru, Ugadi is the day for a new account book, a vehicle or a token payment on a flat. In Bengal the halkhata ledgers open on Pohela Boishakh.

May and June are the hot months, and the fasts change character. Akshaya Tritiya is a day for buying gold and starting things, not for fasting. Buddha Purnima is quiet and reflective. Nirjala Ekadashi in mid-June is the hardest fast of the year, kept without water in peak heat. If you have any health condition, that is the one fast I would ask you to adapt rather than keep in full.

July to September 2027: Chaturmas, Rakhi and Ganesh

From Devshayani Ekadashi in mid-July the calendar turns inward. Chaturmas is four months of fasts and vows, and families hold back weddings and house-warmings until it ends in November.

The solar eclipse of 2 August is the one date in the quarter I would keep clear of any new start. Sutak begins about twelve hours before. Mercury, separately, turns retrograde three times in 2027, and those windows are on my Mercury retrograde 2027 page.

For the full Moon and new Moon times of these months, including the Pitru Paksha Amavasya, see Purnima and Amavasya 2027.

The monsoon months carry the festivals of brothers and sisters, of snakes and of Krishna and Ganesha. Shravan Mondays are kept by many Shiva devotees through the month, and in the purnimanta calendar the Shravan month runs from 19 July to 17 August in 2027. In Maharashtra and Karnataka, Ganesh Chaturthi on 4 September starts ten days of public celebration, with the largest immersions on Anant Chaturdashi.

Pitru Paksha closes the quarter. These sixteen days are kept for the ancestors, and most families avoid buying property, vehicles or jewellery in them. The shraddha for each person falls on the tithi of their passing, and the last day, Mahalaya Amavasya, is for anyone whose date is not known. In Bengal, Mahalaya morning is also when the radio recital of Mahishasura Mardini marks the start of Durga Puja season.

October to December 2027: Navratri, Durga Puja and Diwali

The last quarter is the most crowded of the year. Navratri, Durga Puja, Dussehra, Karva Chauth, Diwali and Chhath arrive within five weeks of each other.

The window between Dev Uthani on 10 November and Dhanu kharmas on 16 December is the second wedding season of the year, and a short one. If a business opening is on your list, Diwali week is popular, but my business opening muhurat 2027 page explains why I often prefer a quieter day either side of it.

Diwali night itself depends on the evening rule. On 28 October, Amavasya only begins at about 8:48 pm, after the Pradosh hours, while on 29 October it is still running at sunset and ends at about 7:06 pm. That is why Lakshmi Puja falls on Friday 29 October, while Kali Puja, which needs Amavasya at midnight, is kept on the night of 28 October in Bengal, Odisha and Assam.

Chhath runs over four days in Bihar, Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh: Nahay Khay, Kharna, the evening arghya to the setting Sun on 4 November and the morning arghya on 5 November. It is one of the strictest fasts of the year, kept without water for about 36 hours, and I would ask anyone with a health condition to speak to their doctor before attempting it in full.

How are Hindu festival dates fixed?

Almost every festival follows a tithi, a lunar day, not a calendar date. A tithi is the time the Moon takes to gain 12 degrees on the Sun, and it can run anywhere from about 19 to 26 hours. It starts at any hour, so the panchang needs a rule for which civil day gets the festival.

Each festival has its own rule. The common ones:

• Sunrise rule (udaya tithi): the day on which the tithi is present at sunrise. Most fasts, Ekadashi and Navratri days follow it.
• Midday rule: Ram Navami and Ganesh Chaturthi look for the tithi at midday, because both births are said to have happened then.
• Evening rule: Diwali Lakshmi Puja, Holika Dahan and Pradosh follow the tithi in the hours after sunset.
• Midnight rule: Shivratri, Janmashtami and Kali Puja go by the tithi at midnight.
• Moonrise rule: Sankashti Chaturthi and Karva Chauth depend on the tithi when the Moon rises.

Every two or three years the lunar calendar falls far enough behind the Sun that the panchang adds a thirteenth month, called adhik maas, to catch up. 2026 had one, an extra Jyeshtha, which pushed that year’s monsoon and autumn festivals later than usual. 2027 has no extra month, so its festivals come back about ten days earlier than in 2026. If you plan by last year’s dates, Diwali, Navratri and Raksha Bandhan will all arrive sooner than you expect. A simple habit helps: when you plan any family event for 2027, check this page first and then confirm the date with the panchang your family trusts.

The Sankrantis are the exception. They follow the Sun’s entry into a sign, which is why Makar Sankranti barely moves from year to year while Holi and Diwali can shift by three weeks.

Why your calendar may show a day’s difference

Two things cause most of the disagreement I see. The first is location. Sunrise in Guwahati comes about an hour and a quarter before sunrise in Ahmedabad, so a tithi that begins close to dawn can land on different days in the two cities. This page uses New Delhi; a Kolkata panjika or a Chennai panchangam may differ on a few dates.

A third, smaller cause is the ephemeris. Panchang makers use slightly different astronomical tables and different values of the ayanamsha, the correction between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs. The effect is usually a minute or two on a tithi, but it can move a Sankranti that falls near midnight, or a tithi that ends right at sunrise, onto a different day. That is why I show both dates for Lohri, Akshaya Tritiya and Janmashtami rather than pretend there is only one answer.

The second is tradition. North India mostly uses the purnimanta calendar, where a month ends at the full Moon, and the south and west mostly use amanta, where it ends at the new Moon. The festival day is usually the same, but the month name for a Krishna paksha date changes. Smarta and Vaishnava households can also keep Ekadashi or Janmashtami a day apart. When your family panchang and this page disagree, follow your family.

When weddings and house-warmings pause in 2027

Festivals and muhurats are related but not the same thing. A day can be a big festival and still be a poor choice for a wedding, and the reverse. Through 2027 the closed stretches are:

• Dhanu kharmas until 14 January, and again from 16 December.
• Meena kharmas and Holashtak, about 15 March to 14 April.
• Chaturmas, 14 July to 10 November.
• The weeks when Venus or Jupiter is combust, which in 2027 overlap Chaturmas.
• Eclipse days, chiefly 2 August.

The open months, and what I check within them, are on my shubh muhurat 2027 page. For a child’s first haircut, see mundan muhurat 2027.

If you read in another language, the same calendar is covered in Hindi on गृह प्रवेश मुहूर्त 2027, and in Bengali on বিয়ের তারিখ ২০২৭.

Bengali families who go by the Beni Madhab Shil panjika will find the house-warming days of the year on গৃহপ্রবেশের শুভ দিন ২০২৭.

The year’s bigger picture: your sign in 2027

Four slow-moving changes set the background against which all of these festivals fall. Jupiter entered Leo on 31 October 2026 and spends most of 2027 there. Rahu moved into Capricorn and Ketu into Cancer on 5 December 2026, which is why both visible eclipses of 2027 fall on that axis. Saturn enters Aries on 3 June 2027, then turns back into Pisces on 20 October and stays there until 23 February 2028. Mercury’s three retrograde spells add short bumps through the year.

Put together, the first five months favour finishing what Saturn in Pisces started, while June to mid-October brings a change of pace for Aries, Taurus and Pisces Moons in particular. The return of Saturn to Pisces in late October means Diwali 2027 falls in a stretch where those signs should keep spending and big promises modest. None of this cancels a festival. It only shapes how much weight I would put on a festival day for a large personal decision.

Festivals are shared; transits land differently on each Moon sign. If you want the year ahead for your own sign, start with horoscope 2027 for all 12 Moon signs. The same year is written in Hindi on राशिफल 2027.

Bengali readers can go to রাশিফল ২০২৭, and if numbers are more your language, numerology 2027 works out your personal year.

Want your own 2027 dates marked?

The questions I get most often around the calendar are practical ones. Is Akshaya Tritiya good for my registration if my dasha is weak? Can we hold the engagement in Pitru Paksha if the boy’s family is travelling? Should the mundan wait until after the new baby arrives? A festival list cannot answer these, because the answer depends on the people involved.

A public calendar tells you what the year holds for everyone. A reading tells you which of those days are good for you, given your dasha and the transits over your Moon, and which to leave alone for anything big. You can see what a full-year reading covers on your 2027 reading.

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Frequently Asked Questions

When is Diwali in 2027?

Diwali 2027 is on Friday 29 October, with Dhanteras on 27 October, Kali Puja on the night of 28 October, Govardhan Puja on 30 October and Bhai Dooj on 31 October.

Which Hindu festivals in 2027 fall in March?

Maha Shivratri on 6 March, Somvati Amavasya on 8 March, Holika Dahan on 21 March, Holi on 22 March and Sheetala Ashtami on 30 March 2027.

When is Raksha Bandhan 2027?

On Tuesday 17 August 2027, Shravana Purnima. A penumbral lunar eclipse falls on the same date, but it happens in the Indian daytime and is not visible here, so no sutak is kept for it.

When is Janmashtami 2027, 24 or 25 August?

Ashtami runs from the evening of 24 August to the evening of 25 August 2027. Smarta households often keep 24 August, while many Vaishnava temples keep 25 August. Follow your temple or family.

When do Navratri and Dussehra fall in 2027?

Chaitra Navratri runs from 7 to 15 April 2027, and Sharad Navratri from 30 September to 8 October, with Dussehra on Saturday 9 October 2027.