Ashadha Month 2027: Start and End Dates, Devshayani Ekadashi

Ashadha 2027: The Dates (आषाढ़ मास)

Ashadha, also spelt Ashadh or Asadha, is the fourth lunar month, and the two common ways of counting it give it different edges in 2027. On a purnimanta calendar, the north Indian kind that ends each month at a full moon, Ashadha runs from Sunday 20 June to Sunday 18 July, which is Guru Purnima. On an amanta calendar, the kind used in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and the Telugu states, it runs from new moon to new moon: Monday 5 July, the morning of the Rath Yatra, to Monday 2 August. Counted at New Delhi sunrise, each version has 29 days, one short of the thirty tithis a lunar month contains.

The bright fortnight, 5 July to 18 July, is Ashadha in both systems, and nearly everything that makes the month familiar falls inside it: the Rath Yatra on 5 July, Devshayani Ekadashi on 14 July with the start of Chaturmas, and Guru Purnima on 18 July. Outside that fortnight the two systems disagree. The north’s dark half, 20 June to 4 July, is still Jyeshtha on an amanta calendar; the amanta dark half, 19 July to 2 August, is already Shravana, or Sawan, in the north. The Jyeshtha month 2027 page covers the month before, and the Sawan 2027 page the month after.

“Ashadhi Ekadashi” simply means the Ekadashi of Ashadha. Its bright-half Ekadashi is the one the festival table dates to Wednesday 14 July under the name Devshayani; the dark-half Ekadashi each calendar puts in its Ashadha is a different fast, Yogini in the north and Kamika in amanta almanacs, as set out below.

Four Lunations, and Two Mornings That Depend on the Town

The month’s edges are instants in the site’s DE421 lunation table. A civil day takes the tithi current at its sunrise, so each instant below is paired with the first or last New Delhi morning that it produces.

The June full moon is the awkward one. It arrives at 06:14 on Saturday 19 June, 51 minutes after New Delhi’s sunrise, so that morning still belongs to the Purnima, the second Purnima sunrise in a row after 18 June. The north’s Ashadha therefore starts a day later than the date of the full moon, on 20 June. Every one of the 38 cities in the site’s panchang list agrees that 19 June dawns on the Purnima, but in fifteen of them, all in the west or the south, the Sun is up less than half an hour before the full moon; in Kochi the gap is 9 minutes. That is inside the margin this site asks for before it rules on a sunrise tithi, so an almanac in those cities that differs on where north Indian Ashadha begins is not contradicted by anything here.

The other three edges are settled. The July new moon comes at 08:32 on Sunday 4 July, hours after dawn, so that day is the Amavasya that closes amanta Jyeshtha and 5 July opens amanta Ashadha. The July full moon is at 21:14 on 18 July, after sunset, which keeps Guru Purnima’s whole day on the Purnima and makes it the north’s last day of the month. The August new moon falls at 15:35 in the afternoon of 2 August. On those mornings, and on 14 July and 3 August, every listed city reads the same tithi as New Delhi, each by half an hour or more. The second town-dependent morning is 5 July, taken up in the next section.

The Lost Pratipada and the Rath Yatra Morning

Neither version of Ashadha has a Shukla Pratipada at a New Delhi sunrise. The tithi opens at the new moon, 08:32 on 4 July, after that morning’s sunrise, and is over by 04:51 on 5 July, 37 minutes before the next. That makes it a kshaya tithi, and the bright fortnight’s first sunrise is already the Shukla Dwitiya: the tithi the site’s festival rules give for the Rath Yatra, and the reason the festival table’s Rath Yatra and the first day of amanta Ashadha are the same Monday. These instants come from the site’s lunar code, which agrees with the generated festival tables to within 1 minute across 86 rows; the Dwitiya’s own start and end match the Rath Yatra row.

New Delhi’s 37 minutes shrink quickly eastward, where the Sun rises earlier. The table sets the 04:51 end of the Pratipada beside the 5 July sunrise in a run of cities from west to east:

Guwahati is the exception in the site’s list: its sunrise at 04:35 comes before the Pratipada ends, so there 5 July dawns on the Pratipada, the next morning dawns on the Shukla Tritiya, and on the arithmetic it is the Shukla Dwitiya that holds no sunrise. Kolkata clears the Pratipada by 5 minutes, and Bhubaneswar, the listed city in Odisha, by 20 minutes; in all, eight of the 38 cities, Guwahati among them, fall inside the half-hour margin, every one of them east of New Delhi. The festival table’s 5 July is the New Delhi reading. Which day a Bengali, Assamese or Odia almanac assigns to the Dwitiya is that almanac’s decision, and so is the procession’s own calendar; this page reports the minutes. The panchang calculator gives the sunrise tithi for any town.

The lost Pratipada is also why this page gives no date for Gupt Navratri. The one line the site holds on it, in its Baglamukhi puja notes, places one of the two Gupt Navratris in Ashadha. A Navratri counted from the Shukla Pratipada needs a day for that Pratipada, and in 2027 the daily table offers no Pratipada sunrise to start from, only the Navami of Monday 12 July at the other end. None of the site’s tables holds a rule for which day a lost Pratipada hands the start to, so the dates are left to the almanacs.

The Two Dark Halves: One Even, One Uneven

The north’s dark fortnight is as regular as a lunar fortnight gets: from Krishna Pratipada on 20 June to Amavasya on 4 July, each of its fifteen tithis is current at exactly one New Delhi sunrise. Add the fourteen sunrises of the shared bright half, short only the Pratipada, and the 29 days of north Indian Ashadha are accounted for.

The amanta dark half, 19 July to 2 August, is uneven in both directions. The Krishna Chaturthi is a vriddhi tithi: it opens at 04:47 on 22 July, 49 minutes before New Delhi’s sunrise, and lasts until 06:57 on 23 July, past the next one, so both mornings carry it. Eastward the opening gets close. Guwahati’s sunrise on 22 July, at 04:43, comes a few minutes before the Chaturthi begins, so on the arithmetic Guwahati doubles the Krishna Tritiya on 21 July and 22 July instead and has the Chaturthi once, on 23 July; Kolkata holds the Chaturthi on 22 July, but by only 16 minutes. The month then loses its Krishna Ekadashi, taking the count back down to 29.

That lost Ekadashi is Kamika. It opens at 07:34 on Thursday 29 July, after a sunrise that is still the Krishna Dashami, and ends at 05:13 on 30 July, 28 minutes before New Delhi’s sunrise, which is the Krishna Dwadashi. The Ekadashi 2027 list prints it as 29 July or 30 July, because calendars that keep the day the tithi occupies and calendars that refuse a Dashami-touched dawn land on different days, and it does not pick one. Its city table marks the same split in the east: in Kolkata and Guwahati the 30 July sunrise comes before the Ekadashi ends, by 6 minutes and 26 minutes respectively, which is too close for this site to call.

Festivals and Ekadashis in Each Version of Ashadha

Events in date order. A clock time appears only where the site’s tables carry the instant; the last two columns name the month each calendar assigns to that date’s New Delhi sunrise.

North Indian Ashadha only. The dark-half Ekadashi falls on Wednesday 30 June, a single sunrise. The Ekadashi list gives it the name Yogini and labels its month Jyeshtha / Ashadha, the amanta name first: an amanta almanac counts it in Jyeshtha, and a purnimanta one as Ashadha Krishna Ekadashi. The fortnight closes with the Amavasya of Sunday 4 July, which the north calls Ashadha Amavasya and amanta calendars Jyeshtha Amavasya. No row of the site’s 2027 festival table falls between 20 June and 4 July.

Both versions. The Jagannath Rath Yatra is the festival table’s Monday 5 July, the Ashadha Shukla Dwitiya at sunrise, with the city caveat above. Devshayani Ekadashi follows on Wednesday 14 July: the Ekadashi runs from 12:09 on 13 July to 13:10 on 14 July, so that morning holds it in every listed city. The festival table labels the row as the start of Chaturmas, and the site’s Chaturmas dates run from that day to 10 November 2027; the Chaturmas 2027 page takes the four months in full. Guru Purnima closes the fortnight on Sunday 18 July. Its Purnima begins at 18:48 the evening before and ends with the full moon at 21:14, so the sunrise rule the festival rules give it has only one candidate. The Guru Purnima 2027 page covers the day itself.

The full moon also accounts for the month’s name. The Purnima 2027 list pairs Ashadha with two nakshatras, Purva Ashadha and Uttara Ashadha, and on 18 July both appear: the daily table has the Moon in Purva Ashadha at sunrise, and the lunation table places the night full moon in Uttara Ashadha, in Capricorn. The June full moon that opens the north’s month sits in Moola.

Amanta Ashadha only. After Guru Purnima the north has moved into Sawan, while the amanta month runs on through its uneven dark half: the doubled Chaturthi of 22 July and 23 July, Kamika Ekadashi on 29 July or 30 July, and the Amavasya of Monday 2 August. The Ekadashi list labels Kamika Ashadha / Shravana, so the north counts the same fast in Sawan. The June and July 2027 vrat and festival lists carry the rest of each month’s observances.

The Sun in Gemini and Cancer

The Sun enters sidereal Gemini at 18:50 IST on Tuesday 15 June, before either Ashadha has begun, and is still in Gemini at the 4 July new moon. The Ekadashi list names an amanta month from the Sun’s sign at the new moon that opens it, and Gemini gives Ashadha. The move into Cancer comes at 05:42 IST on Saturday 17 July, a few minutes after New Delhi’s sunrise on the eve of Guru Purnima, inside both versions of the month. It is the only solar ingress between the two amanta new moons, so this lunation is not an adhika month, and the site’s 2027 panchang data has none. The solar months that start with these ingresses, and the civil day each regional calendar keeps for them, are left to those calendars; the two instants are what this page gives.

No Kharmas day falls in either Ashadha. The site’s Kharmas table has nothing between 20 June and 2 August; the Kharmas 2027 page lists the year’s stretches. The closures that matter this month are of a different kind.

Ashadha Weddings: Where the Muhurat Engine Closes the Calendar

Ashadha is where the site’s muhurat engine stops clearing marriage dates for the season. Its 2027 closure list has a Chaturmas row from 14 July to 10 November, matching the Chaturmas dates above, and its note on that row says marriages stop across almost every community. A second closure, an asta row (Shukra asta), also falls across the month. From 14 July every day of both versions is closed twice over. This page does not print asta boundaries; the Chaturmas 2027 page shows how the two closures overlap through the four months.

The north’s dark half lies outside every closure, so there the verdict turns on the five panchang limbs at sunrise. The engine clears one day, Monday 21 June, with the Moon in Uttara Ashadha. Three more miss by a single limb: 28 June on the tithi, 30 June on the nakshatra and 2 July on the yoga. The amanta month has no cleared day and no near miss. After 21 June, the next day the engine clears is Friday 12 November, after Chaturmas ends on 10 November.

These are the engine’s verdicts, not muhurats. A cleared day is a candidate only; the engine’s own note on marriage says the pheras still need a lagna window calculated from both charts, which it does not compute. The day-by-day reasons are on the June, July and August 2027 marriage pages, and the reopening on the November 2027 page.

Where to Go Next

This page covers the edges of Ashadha, its lost and doubled tithis, its festival rows and the engine’s closures. It does not read a chart, choose a wedding date, or say what the month’s fasts achieve. Before it comes Jyeshtha 2027, and after it Sawan 2027. The 2027 festival calendar has the whole year, and each dated festival has its own page under festivals.