Adhik Maas 2027, 2028: None. Next Is Adhik Chaitra 2029

Is There an Adhik Maas in 2027? (अधिक मास 2027)

No. The site’s 2027 panchang, computed from the JPL DE421 ephemeris, has no intercalary month, and the 2028 panchang has none either. The most recent one was Adhika Jyeshtha, from 17 May 2026 to 15 June 2026. The next one the same rule finds is Adhika Chaitra, opening with the new moon of 15 March 2029 and closing with the new moon of 14 April 2029, so its first sunrise in New Delhi is on Friday, 16 March. That 2029 answer comes with a caveat, set out further down: it is the closest call in the whole table.

A list that shows an adhik maas, Purushottam maas or mal maas inside 2027 has most likely carried the 2026 month forward, or has mixed the intercalary month up with Kharmas, which some calendars also call malmas. The Kharmas 2027 page covers the solar stretches; this page is only about the lunar month that gets added.

Every Adhika Month From 2020 to 2045

The table runs the same computation over 26 years. It finds ten adhika months and no kshaya (dropped) month. The two new-moon instants are in IST and hold everywhere; the civil days are New Delhi sunrises, the first after the opening new moon and the last before the closing one, and can move by a day for a town far east or west when a new moon falls close to sunrise.

How the Rule Finds One: 2026 Worked Through

An amanta lunar month runs from one new moon to the next and takes its name from the solar ingress, or sankranti, that falls inside it: the month holding the Sun’s entry into Mithuna, for instance, is Jyeshtha. A solar month is a little longer than a lunar one, so every few years a lunation begins after one ingress and ends before the next. That lunation has no ingress to name it, and it becomes the adhika month, borrowing the name of the ordinary (nija) month that follows.

In 2026 the Sun entered Vrishabha on 15 May at 06:19. The next new moon came at 01:31 on 17 May, 43 hours later, and the one after it at 08:24 on 15 June. The Sun’s Mithuna ingress did not arrive until 12:49 that afternoon, 4 hours and 25 minutes after the lunation had closed. Nothing fell inside. The Mithuna ingress belongs to the next lunation, which is therefore the ordinary Jyeshtha, and the empty one before it took the name Adhika Jyeshtha. The opening new moon came before the 17 May sunrise, which is why that morning’s sunrise tithi is already Shukla Pratipada and the month counts from that day; the closing one came after the 15 June sunrise, which is still Amavasya.

Why 2029’s Answer Is a Close Call

The margin that decided 2026 was a matter of hours. In 2029 it is 37 minutes. The lunation closing at 03:10 on 14 April 2029 holds no ingress only because the Sun’s entry into Mesha falls at 03:47, after it. An almanac that places the ingress about 37 minutes earlier would find Mesha inside that lunation, and would name the 2029 months differently. Ingress times depend on the ayanamsa used, so a small difference between almanacs is enough for that. This page takes no view on which almanac is right; it reports the DE421 reading with Lahiri ayanamsa, which is what every date on this site uses, and flags the row. The only other row within 120 minutes is Adhika Jyeshtha 2045, at 64.

How Often an Adhik Maas Comes

Between successive openings in the table the gap is most often 34 calendar months (6 of the 9 gaps), and it ranges from 28 to 35. The shortest is from Adhika Jyeshtha 2037 to Adhika Ashwina 2039. So a rule of thumb such as “every third year” misleads: the steps are not equal, and a year’s answer has to be computed rather than counted forward.

The months that become adhika cluster in one half of the year. In this table they are Ashwina (2020, 2039), Shravana (2023, 2042), Jyeshtha (2026, 2037, 2045), Chaitra (2029), Bhadrapada (2031) and Ashadha (2034). Ashwina, Shravana and Jyeshtha occur more than once, and no month from Kartika to Phalguna occurs at all. Each adhika month runs 29 or 30 sunrise days in New Delhi.

Purushottam Maas, Mal Maas and What Closes

The same month goes by several names. Adhik or adhika means “extra”; mal maas or malamasa is a name that marks the month as unfit for new undertakings; Purushottam maas is the name used in Vaishnava practice, which dedicates the month to Vishnu under that title.

The site’s muhurat engine follows the restrictive reading. Of the ten occasions it evaluates, it closes nine for the whole of an adhika month: Marriage (Vivah), Griha Pravesh, Business start, Vehicle purchase, Namakaran (naming), Mundan (first hair-cut), Annaprashan (first food), Upanayan (sacred thread) and Property / land deal. It leaves Long travel / yatra open. The muhurat hub runs the engine month by month, and the vivah muhurat guide explains how the closures stack.

What This Table Does Not Give

It gives no dated vrat, snan or katha inside any adhika month, because no table on this site carries one. It does not give the 2029 festival dates, which the site has not computed beyond 2028; an adhika month moves every festival after it by a lunar month against the solar year, so a 2029 list made by copying an earlier year will be wrong. For the lunar months of 2027 one at a time, start with the Jyeshtha 2027 page, the month that was doubled in 2026, and the 2027 festival calendar; for a single day, the panchang tool gives the tithi and nakshatra, and the festival hub lists every computed festival date. In Hindi: अधिक मास 2027 और 2028 में नहीं, अगला अधिक चैत्र 2029.