Bhadrapada 2027: Start and End Dates, Purnima, Amavasya

Bhadrapada 2027 Dates (भाद्रपद मास)

Bhadrapada, often shortened to Bhado, is the sixth lunar month, and in 2027 there are two answers to when it starts. A purnimanta almanac, the kind printed across north India, begins it the morning after the August full moon, Wednesday 18 August, and ends it on Wednesday 15 September, the Purnima: 29 civil days at New Delhi. An amanta almanac, as used in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and the Telugu states, waits for the new moon; its Bhadrapada begins on Wednesday 1 September and runs to Thursday 30 September, 30 civil days.

The 15 days from 1 September to 15 September are Bhadrapada on both reckonings, and they hold Hartalika Teej, Ganesh Chaturthi, Anant Chaturdashi and the Purnima. Before them, 18 August to 31 August is Bhadrapada only in the north; an amanta calendar still calls that fortnight Shravana, which is why Janmashtami can be printed under either month. After them, 16 September to 30 September is Bhadrapada only in amanta calendars and already Ashwina in the north, and that is the fortnight of Pitru Paksha. The month before is on the Sawan 2027 page.

Bhadrapada Purnima 2027 and Bhadrapada Amavasya 2027

Bhadrapada Purnima falls on Wednesday 15 September, and the two calendars agree on it, as they do on every bright-fortnight tithi. The festival table carries the Purnima as its “Pitru Paksha begins” row: the tithi starts at 02:48 on 15 September and ends at 04:33 on 16 September, the full moon itself. So it is running at that Wednesday’s sunrise and again at its sunset, while the evening before still belongs to the Chaturdashi of Anant Chaturdashi; a sunrise reading and an evening reading both land on 15 September. The full moon falls in the nakshatra Purva Bhadrapada by the lunation table, the star the month is named after in the scheme the Purnima 2027 list uses.

Bhadrapada Amavasya has two dates, because a dark-fortnight tithi takes a different month name on each reckoning. In a north Indian almanac it is Tuesday 31 August, the last Amavasya before the bright half; an amanta almanac calls the same day Shravana Amavasya. By the site’s lunar code the tithi opens at 02:41 that morning, before sunrise, and lasts until the new moon at 23:11 that night, so the whole civil day is Amavasya. Since it falls on a Tuesday, the Amavasya 2027 list counts it among the year’s Bhaumavati Amavasyas.

The amanta Bhadrapada Amavasya is Thursday 30 September, and the festival table dates Sarva Pitru Amavasya on it. North Indian calendars name that day Ashwina Amavasya. The tithi starts at 10:55 on 29 September and ends at 08:06 on 30 September, 113 minutes after sunrise. The row follows the sunrise rule; the only afternoon this Amavasya spans is 29 September’s, a split the Amavasya list sets out. The same morning, once the new moon has passed, the festival table opens Sharad Navratri.

The two dark-fortnight spans above, like the dropped and doubled tithis below, are not festival-table rows; they come from the site’s lunar code, which agrees with the generated tables to within 1 minute across 86 festival rows.

The Full and New Moons on Either Side

None of the four instants sits near a sunrise. The August full moon comes at 12:58 on 17 August, the Raksha Bandhan afternoon, so that day is still Shravana Purnima and 18 August is the north’s first Bhadrapada morning. The new moon that ends amanta Shravana arrives at 23:11 on 31 August, close to midnight. The September full moon is at 04:33 on 16 September, 93 minutes before New Delhi’s sunrise, which makes 15 September the last purnimanta day; and the new moon closing the amanta month comes at 08:06 on 30 September, after that morning’s sunrise, so the Amavasya is the day’s tithi. On each edge morning (17 August, 18 August, 31 August, 1 September, 15 September, 16 September and 30 September) the site’s sunrise code gives every one of its 38 panchang cities the same tithi as New Delhi, with half an hour or more in hand.

Three Close Sunrises That Change by Town

The edges are safe; the inside of the month is not. By New Delhi’s daily table the north’s Bhadrapada has 29 days for thirty tithis because the Krishna Chaturdashi is current at no sunrise (a kshaya tithi): it opens at 06:13 on 30 August, 15 minutes after the Sun is up, and has given way to the Amavasya before the next dawn. The amanta month reaches thirty days a different way. Its dark fortnight has the Krishna Dwitiya at two sunrises, 17 September and 18 September (a vriddhi tithi), and the Krishna Shashthi at none, since that Shashthi runs from 06:43 on 21 September to 05:52 on 22 September, inside one night.

Each of those three calls is made by less than half an hour in New Delhi: 15 minutes on 30 August, 14 minutes on 17 September, when the Dwitiya has only just begun, and 17 minutes on 22 September, when the Shashthi has only just ended. A town with an earlier or later sunrise can fall on the other side. Here is what the site’s sunrise code gives for eight cities, with the gap between sunrise and the nearest change of tithi:

Across all 38 cities the readings fall into four groups. Nineteen, New Delhi among them, follow the pattern above. In ten western towns, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, Kochi, Nashik, Jodhpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa and Udaipur, the Sun on 30 August rises after the Chaturdashi has begun, by 10 minutes at most, so there the tithi that misses a sunrise in the north’s month is the Krishna Trayodashi. In eight eastern towns, Kolkata, Patna, Varanasi, Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Ranchi and Raipur, the earlier dawn of 17 September still falls in the Krishna Pratipada, and that of 22 September in the Shashthi, so the amanta month doubles the Pratipada instead and drops the Krishna Saptami. Lucknow sits on the line, its computed sunrise within two minutes of a tithi change on both September mornings. The month’s length is the same everywhere; only which tithi doubles or drops moves. Some towns that escape these three mornings meet a close call on a neighbouring one instead; of the 38, only Guwahati has every sunrise of both Bhadrapadas at least half an hour from a change of tithi.

That is inside the margin this site wants before it rules on a sunrise tithi, so for these three mornings the reading belongs to the almanac a family follows, not to this page. Two of them fall in the Pitru Paksha fortnight, and this page gives no day-by-day shraddha list for it. The panchang calculator shows the sunrise tithi for any town.

Festivals and Ekadashis by Calendar

The table runs in date order. A clock time appears only where a table carries the instant, and the last two columns name the month each reckoning gives the New Delhi sunrise of that date, read from the Sun’s sign at the opening new moon.

The north-only fortnight: Janmashtami and Aja Ekadashi

The festival rules file Janmashtami as the dark-half Ashtami of Shravana, by amanta naming; a north Indian almanac puts the same tithi in Bhadrapada. The table dates it Tuesday 24 August under its rule, “tithi at nishita kaal”. That Tuesday dawns on the Krishna Saptami; the Ashtami begins at 20:25, after sunset, and runs to 19:20 on 25 August, so it covers the midnight of 24 August and the sunrise of 25 August but not the following midnight. A calendar that dates the fast by the sunrise tithi would therefore print 25 August; the table’s reading is 24 August. The Ekadashi of the same fortnight is on Saturday 28 August: the Ekadashi 2027 list, which names Ekadashis by the amanta month, calls it Aja and files it under Shravana; to a purnimanta reader it is the Krishna Ekadashi of Bhadrapada.

The shared fortnight: Teej to the Purnima

Hartalika Teej is Friday 3 September, the Shukla Tritiya at sunrise. Its Tritiya ends at 14:19 that afternoon and the Chaturthi takes over at the same minute, which is why Ganesh Chaturthi, dated “tithi at madhyahna”, is the next day, Saturday 4 September: the Chaturthi has not begun by midday on 3 September and is still current at midday on 4 September, ending at 12:26. The Ganesh Chaturthi 2027 page works through the midday window for sthapana; this page gives no moonrise or moon-sighting time for the Chaturthi evening. Parivartini (Parsva) Ekadashi follows on Saturday 11 September, a Bhadrapada Ekadashi on either reckoning. Anant Chaturdashi is Tuesday 14 September: its Chaturdashi opens at 00:40 in the first hour of that day and hands over to the Purnima at 02:48 in the small hours of 15 September. The fortnight, and the north’s month, then end on the Purnima of 15 September.

The amanta-only fortnight: Pitru Paksha and Indira Ekadashi

The festival rules put the start of Pitru Paksha on Bhadrapada’s shukla fifteenth, so the table’s Pitru Paksha begins row falls on the Purnima, Wednesday 15 September. The fortnight that follows, 16 September to 30 September, carries two names. The rules, naming months the amanta way, give Sarva Pitru Amavasya as Bhadrapada’s dark-half fifteenth, and the month helper puts every morning from 16 September in amanta Bhadrapada. A purnimanta almanac has already turned the page and prints the same days as Ashwina Krishna. Neither the days nor the tithis differ between the two; only the label does. Inside it is Sunday 26 September, the Ekadashi the list names Indira and files under Bhadrapada, which the north counts in Ashwina.

The Sun in Leo and Virgo, Inside Chaturmas

The site’s ingress table has the Sun entering sidereal Leo at 14:07 IST on 17 August 2027, 69 minutes after the full moon that opens the north’s month, and entering Virgo at 14:04 IST on 17 September 2027, the first of the two Dwitiya mornings. The Leo instant is the purnimanta month’s only solar ingress, the Virgo instant the amanta month’s only one. With the Sun in Leo at the 31 August new moon, the naming rule the Amavasya and Ekadashi lists follow gives the lunation that opens there the name Bhadrapada; one ingress inside it means it is not an adhika month, and the 2027 table has none. Which civil day a regional solar calendar treats as the first of its month is left to that calendar; this page gives the instants only.

Both versions of the month sit inside Chaturmas, which the site’s tables run from Devshayani Ekadashi on 14 July to Dev Uthani Ekadashi on 10 November. The muhurat engine lists Chaturmas among its 2027 closures, and its marriage calendar’s last open day before the break is 5 July; the next open stretch begins on 11 November, the day after Chaturmas ends. No Kharmas day falls in either Bhadrapada. The Chaturmas 2027 page covers the whole four months.

Related Dates

This page fixes Bhadrapada’s edges, its Purnima and Amavasyas, and the mornings where the town changes the reading; it does not choose a puja time or say what the month’s fasts achieve. The month’s other vrats are on the August 2027 and September 2027 vrat and festival lists. The 2027 festival calendar has the full year, and each dated festival has its own page under festivals.