Apara Ekadashi 2027: 1 June Date and a Short Parana

Apara Ekadashi falls on Tuesday, 1 June 2027, and the date is not in doubt: every city in the site’s panchang wakes to the same tithi that morning. The part that needs planning is the next day. The fast is broken on Wednesday 2 June, and the tithi that allows it runs out at 08:29 that morning. Depending on where you are, that leaves somewhere between 2 hours 27 minutes and 3 hours 59 minutes after sunrise. Some calendars print the day as Achala Ekadashi; it is the same fast.

Wednesday Parana Ends at 08:29 (अपरा एकादशी का पारण)

The parana is taken after sunrise on the day after the fast, while the Krishna Dwadashi is still current. This time the Krishna Dwadashi closes at 08:29 on Wednesday 2 June, at one instant for the whole country, whereas sunrise differs from town to town. In New Delhi the sun comes up at 05:23, giving 3 hours 6 minutes. The tightest mornings are in Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Goa, at 2 hours 27 minutes each. Guwahati, with the earliest sunrise on the list, gets the most, 3 hours 59 minutes. In twenty-one of the 38 cities the window is under three hours.

In practice that means having the parana food ready the night before, rather than counting on a late breakfast. The table gives each city’s 2 June sunrise and the time from it to 08:29, shortest first. The panchang calculator is pinned to New Delhi’s coordinates, so for the other cities in this table look up sunrise and sunset, through 2027, on the city panchang pages.

The figures set the site’s computed sunrise for each city against a tithi end from the site’s lunar code. Over the 86 tithi instants that the DE421 tables also carry, that code has never differed from them by more than 1 minute. A printed almanac may differ from these figures by a minute or two, which matters little with hours in hand but is a reason not to leave the meal to the final minutes.

Hari Vasara Is Over Before Tuesday Evening

Vrat manuals do not allow the parana inside Hari Vasara, the first quarter of the Krishna Dwadashi. When the Krishna Dwadashi begins overnight, that quarter can reach into the parana morning. Not this year. The Krishna Dwadashi begins at 09:40 on Tuesday 1 June, so its first quarter is finished in the afternoon of the fast day itself, more than two hours before sunset in every city. By the time Wednesday dawns it has been over for more than twelve hours everywhere. The only clock that counts on Wednesday morning is the 08:29 end of the tithi.

From Monday Morning to Tuesday Morning: The Tithi

The Krishna Ekadashi runs from 10:03 on Monday 31 May to 09:40 on Tuesday 1 June. In the New Delhi daily table, sunrise on Monday (05:24) reads Krishna Dashami, sunrise on Tuesday (05:23) reads Krishna Ekadashi, and sunrise on Wednesday (05:23) reads Krishna Dwadashi.

This shape is easy to misread on a wall calendar. The tithi turns in mid-morning, more than three hours after every city’s sunrise on Monday, so that dawn belongs to Krishna Dashami everywhere. And it ends on Tuesday morning, with more than three hours to run after the latest sunrise on the list. From then on the Krishna Dwadashi holds most of Tuesday’s daylight in all 38 cities. None of that moves the fast. An Ekadashi is kept on the day whose sunrise it holds, and Tuesday is the only such day.

The Vaishnava test from the Hari Bhakti Vilasa, which looks for any trace of Krishna Dashami in the 96 minutes before sunrise, gives the same answer. By Tuesday’s arunodaya the Krishna Dashami has been gone since the previous morning, and the Krishna Ekadashi is more than sixteen hours old even in the city where that lead is smallest. Smarta and Vaishnava calendars therefore agree on Tuesday.

The Monday Meal

Vrat manuals ask for a single plain meal on the day before an Ekadashi. On 31 May the Krishna Dashami lasts only until 10:03, so a household that times that meal by the tithi rather than by the calendar day would eat it in the morning. Which reading to follow is a matter for family custom or the household’s purohit; this page only gives the clock. How strictly the fast itself is kept also varies, from giving up grain to taking no food or water, and the Ekadashi vrat niyam page sets out those forms. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant or take medicines on a schedule, check with a doctor before you fast.

Vaishakha Krishna or Jyeshtha Krishna

The lunation behind this fast opens with the new moon at 16:28 on Thursday 6 May, with the Sun in sidereal Aries. Amanta calendars, which run a month from new moon to new moon, take its name from that sign, and an Aries new moon opens Vaishakha. The site’s festival rules read the lunation the same way, filing Buddha Purnima (20 May) as Vaishakha shukla and Shani Jayanti (4 June), the Amavasya that closes it, as Vaishakha krishna. In the amanta almanacs of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra, then, Apara is the Vaishakha Krishna Ekadashi.

Purnimanta calendars, the north Indian reckoning, end Vaishakha at the full moon, 16:29 on Thursday 20 May, twelve days before the fast, and start Jyeshtha there. Their name for the day is Jyeshtha Krishna Ekadashi. The Sun moves into Taurus on 15 May, five days before that full moon, but the amanta month still takes its name from the opening new moon. The date of the fast is the same under either name. The Vaishakh 2027 and Jyeshtha 2027 pages give both versions of each month’s start and end.

Mohini Before, Nirjala After

• Sunday 16 May: Mohini Ekadashi, the bright-half Ekadashi of the same lunation, sixteen days earlier.
• Tuesday 1 June: Apara Ekadashi.
• Friday 4 June: the Amavasya, three days on, kept as Shani Jayanti and also as Vat Savitri; the Vat Savitri 2027 page covers that vrat.
• Sunday 13 June: Ganga Dussehra, the Jyeshtha Shukla Dashami.
• Monday 14 June: Nirjala Ekadashi, thirteen days after Apara, with no Ekadashi sunrise between the two. After Nirjala comes Yogini Ekadashi.

Mahidhwaj and Vajradhwaj: The Story in the Vrat Books

The vrat books credit the Apara katha to the Brahmanda Purana. In their telling, a righteous king named Mahidhwaj is killed by his younger brother, Vajradhwaj, and his body is hidden under a peepal tree. The dead king’s spirit stays at the tree, until a sage keeps this Ekadashi on its behalf. The ending, and what the katha says the fast brings about, belong to the text. This page passes the story on as the books tell it and makes no claim of its own about what keeping Apara Ekadashi does.

Apara Ekadashi 2027 at a Glance

• Fast: Tuesday 1 June 2027, the same day in Smarta and Vaishnava calendars
• Ekadashi tithi (computed): 10:03 on Monday 31 May to 09:40 on Tuesday 1 June
• Parana: Wednesday 2 June 2027, from local sunrise until 08:29 (3 hours 6 minutes in New Delhi; 2 hours 27 minutes at the least)
• Hari Vasara: over by the afternoon of 1 June, so no bar to a sunrise parana
• Month: Vaishakha Krishna Ekadashi (amanta); Jyeshtha Krishna Ekadashi (purnimanta)
• New Delhi on 1 June: sunrise 05:23, sunset 19:14, nakshatra at sunrise Revati

All of the year’s fasts are on the Ekadashi 2027 list. The June 2027 festival list has the rest of the month, and the 2027 festival calendar the rest of the year. In Hindi: अपरा एकादशी 2027: 1 जून की तारीख और छोटा पारण.