August 2027 Festival List: Raksha Bandhan to Janmashtami

In an amanta almanac, August 2027 is almost exactly the month of Shravana: a new moon on 2 August opens it and another on 31 August closes it, and all four of the month’s festivals belong to it. Hariyali Teej and Nag Panchami come in the first week, Raksha Bandhan falls on the full moon, and Krishna Janmashtami, in the dark fortnight, is fixed by its midnight. Around them sit two Ekadashis, two weekend Pradosh evenings and an Amavasya at each end of the month. The table below gives all 16 observances in date order with the reading that fixes each one.

August 2027 Festival and Vrat Dates (व्रत त्योहार)

The dates are worked out for New Delhi from the site’s panchang tables, which are generated from NASA JPL’s DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa. Tithi start and end instants come from the site’s tithi calculator; checked against 86 rows of those tables, it stays within 1 minute of each. A tithi begins and ends at the same instant all over India, but sunrise, sunset and moonrise move with the horizon, so a row near an edge can shift by a day elsewhere; the Hariyali Teej section below has an August example. The panchang tool gives the readings for your own town.

One Shravana From New Moon to New Moon

The new moon at 15:35 on Monday 2 August comes with the Sun in Cancer, so amanta calendars open Shravana there, and the next one, at 23:11 on Tuesday 31 August, comes with the Sun in Leo and opens Bhadrapada. That leaves amanta Shravana a little over 29 days, nearly all of them inside August. The 2 August Amavasya is the last day of amanta Ashadha; the 31 August one is Shravana’s own. The Amavasya 2027 list names the first Somvati and the second Bhaumavati, after their weekdays.

A purnimanta calendar, the north Indian kind, ends Shravana at the full moon instead, 12:58 on 17 August, and starts Bhadrapada from that instant. The site’s festival rules record all four August festivals as amanta Shravana, so for Hariyali Teej, Nag Panchami and Raksha Bandhan the two systems agree; Janmashtami, in the dark fortnight, is Shravana in the first and Bhadrapada in the second. The Sawan 2027 page covers the month’s start and end dates and its Mondays, and the Bhadrapada 2027 page picks up where they end. The Sun crosses into Leo at 14:07 on 17 August, 69 minutes after the full moon; that changes no lunar month name, and the site gives the instant only, with no Sankranti observance day.

The whole month is inside Chaturmas, which the festival table opens with Devshayani Ekadashi on 14 July and closes with Dev Uthani Ekadashi on 10 November. There is no Kharmas in August.

Hariyali Teej: A Tritiya With No Sunrise

The festival table sets Hariyali Teej on Wednesday 4 August, but the Shukla Tritiya is not the tithi at that morning’s sunrise. It begins at 08:20, more than two hours after the 05:44 sunrise, and ends at 05:09 on Thursday 5 August, 35 minutes before the next one. No New Delhi sunrise falls inside it, so it is a kshaya tithi: the daily table reads Shukla Dwitiya on the Wednesday morning and Shukla Chaturthi on the Thursday. The panchang generator keeps a kshaya festival on the day its tithi begins, which is why the row is dated the Wednesday.

A lead of 35 minutes is not much, and in the east, where the sun rises earlier, it shrinks. Of the site’s 38 panchang cities, 11 see their 5 August sunrise less than 30 minutes after the Tritiya ends, and in Guwahati the sun is up at 04:50, before it ends. For those cities the 5 August sunrise sits too near the tithi’s edge to settle from minute values, and the local almanac is the one to follow.

The Chaturthi begins the instant the Tritiya ends, so Thursday 5 August opens on Chaturthi and holds it through the whole of madhyahna: that is Vinayaka Chaturthi. Nag Panchami follows on Friday 6 August, with the Panchami running from 02:27 that morning to 00:23 on 7 August. Three observances on three consecutive days, then, carry three tithis, and only the Chaturthi and the Panchami are present at their own dawn.

Durgashtami to Shani Pradosh

Masik Durgashtami is Monday 9 August, the day Saturn stations retrograde in Aries; the site dates that station to the day and gives no minute, and the Saturn transit 2027 page covers the rest of Saturn’s year.

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi falls on Thursday 12 August. Its tithi opens at 00:59, in the small hours of that date, and lasts until 03:00 on 13 August, so the Thursday sunrise is the only one inside it. The Vaishnava check against Dashami at arunodaya, 96 minutes before sunrise, changes nothing, because the Ekadashi has already run for 193 minutes by then. The Ekadashi 2027 list explains why the name Putrada belongs to two different Ekadashis; the other is the bright-fortnight Ekadashi of Pausha.

The Shani Pradosh Vrat on Saturday 14 August has a Shukla Trayodashi that runs from 05:21 that morning to 07:54 on 15 August. It is current at two sunrises, but only the Saturday evening finds it in the pradosh window, and it covers that window whole, so a calendar that reads the evening has no choice to make. Mercury enters Leo at 11:50 the same day.

Raksha Bandhan, the Purnima and Its Bhadra

The Purnima begins at 10:29 on Monday 16 August and ends with the full moon at 12:58 on Tuesday 17 August. The Tuesday sunrise is the only sunrise inside it, so the festival table, which fixes Raksha Bandhan by the tithi at sunrise, puts it on Tuesday 17 August, and the Purnima 2027 list carries Shravana Purnima on the same day. That list also prints an evening reading, and for this Purnima it falls on 16 August, since the Monday sunset is the only one the tithi spans.

Every Purnima carries a Bhadra (the Vishti karana) in its first half. This one runs from 10:29, the instant the Purnima begins, to 23:45 on Monday night, so it is over before the Tuesday sunrise, and no Vishti falls between that sunrise and the end of the Purnima at 12:58. The Bhadra kaal page lists every Vishti of the year and reports what the muhurta manuals attach to it. The site’s festival rules exclude Bhadra by name for Holika Dahan only, not for Raksha Bandhan, and this page gives no time of day for tying a rakhi; that is a matter for the family’s own almanac and purohit.

A run of changes surrounds this full moon. Venus enters Leo at 09:29 on 16 August, shortly before the Purnima opens. The full moon at 12:58 on 17 August ends purnimanta Shravana; the Panchak begins at 13:04, 6 minutes later; and the Sun follows Venus into Leo at 14:07.

Janmashtami at Midnight, and the Morning After

Sankashti Chaturthi is Friday 20 August, when New Delhi’s moonrise at 20:23 is inside the Krishna Chaturthi; the Panchak that began on Raksha Bandhan runs until 11:10 on 22 August, so that moonrise falls inside it.

Krishna Janmashtami is the one August festival whose row is not read at sunrise. The Krishna Ashtami begins at 20:25 on Tuesday 24 August, after sunset, and ends at 19:20 on Wednesday 25 August. The festival table tests it at nishita, the middle of the night, and the only midnight it holds is the Tuesday night, by then more than three hours into the tithi, so the row says Tuesday 24 August. Kalashtami, read at night from the same Ashtami, lands on the same date.

The morning tells a different story. The Tuesday sunrise is still in Krishna Saptami, and the only sunrise the Ashtami holds is the Wednesday’s, which the daily table prints as Krishna Ashtami. A calendar that fixes the day by the tithi at sunrise therefore prints Wednesday 25 August. This is the shape of year in which Smarta and Vaishnava almanacs can show Janmashtami a day apart, as the 2027 festival calendar notes; which date a particular temple or sampradaya keeps is its own calendar’s to say, and this page does not assign either day to either tradition. Mars moves into Libra at 09:42 on 24 August, before the Ashtami begins.

Aja Ekadashi to the Second Amavasya

27 August has no row of its own. The Krishna Ekadashi opens at 15:26 that afternoon and runs to 12:43 on Saturday 28 August, which makes the Saturday Aja Ekadashi, amanta Shravana’s dark-fortnight Ekadashi and purnimanta Bhadrapada’s. At arunodaya it has been running for over 12 hours, so the arunodaya test moves neither of the month’s Ekadashis, and neither is a vriddhi or a kshaya.

Four days in a row close the month. After Aja comes the Ravi Pradosh Vrat on Sunday 29 August, whose Trayodashi fills the pradosh window; Masik Shivratri follows on Monday 30 August; and the Amavasya, opening at 02:41 on Tuesday 31 August, ends with the new moon at 23:11 that night. Mercury enters Virgo at 01:57 the same morning. The Moon passes through Pushya twice in August, from 20:04 on 1 August and from 06:17 on 29 August; both passages touch a Sunday by the vaar reading and neither holds a Sunday sunrise at New Delhi, and the Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya 2027 page works through both.

September opens with Hartalika Teej on 3 September and Ganesh Chaturthi on 4 September, both in amanta Bhadrapada.

Related Pages

The months on either side are the July 2027 vrat and festival list and the September 2027 list. The August 2027 panchang gives each day’s tithi and nakshatra. For the whole year there are the festivals hub, the Pradosh Vrat 2027 list, the Sankashti Chaturthi 2027 list and the Sun transit 2027 page.