Chaitra Month 2027: Start and End Date, Navratri, Ram Navami

Chaitra 2027 in Short (चैत्र मास)

Chaitra, the first month of the lunar year, has two sets of dates in 2027 depending on where a month is taken to end. North Indian almanacs end it at the full moon, so their Chaitra begins the morning after Holi, on Tuesday 23 March, and its last morning is Tuesday 20 April, Hanuman Jayanti. The amanta almanacs of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and the Telugu states end it at the new moon, and theirs runs from Gudi Padwa, Wednesday 7 April, to Thursday 6 May.

How many days that makes depends on what is counted. At New Delhi the north Indian Chaitra holds 29 sunrises and the amanta one 30 sunrises. Measured as a lunation, full moon to full moon is 29 days, 11 hours and 44 minutes and new moon to new moon 29 days, 11 hours and 7 minutes; the civil count turns that into 29 or 30 mornings according to where the edges fall against dawn. The two versions share only the waxing fortnight, 7 April to 20 April, 14 mornings that carry Chaitra Navratri, Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti. Before it, 23 March to 6 April is Chaitra in the north but the tail of Phalgun for amanta readers; after it, 21 April to 6 May is amanta Chaitra but already Vaishakh in the north.

The Phalgun month 2027 page ends where this one begins, and the Vaishakh month 2027 page carries on from the other end. Bengali, Odia and Assamese readers, and anyone searching for a Gujarati Chaitra, will find their answers further down; neither is the same span as the north Indian month.

Where Each Chaitra Begins and Ends

The instants come from the site’s DE421 lunation table. A civil day takes the tithi running at its sunrise, so each instant hands the month to the first sunrise after it, and the last morning before the closing instant is the month’s final day.

The March full moon arrives at 16:13 on Holi, more than 9 hours after New Delhi’s sunrise, so Holi itself stays the Purnima of Phalgun and Tuesday 23 March dawns as the Krishna Pratipada. The April full moon is at 03:57 on 21 April, 113 minutes before New Delhi’s dawn; even the earliest listed sunrise trails it by 57 minutes, so 20 April closes the north’s Chaitra everywhere. At the far end of the amanta month the Amavasya opens at 18:17 on 5 May, by the site’s lunar code, and the new moon falls at 16:28 on 6 May, more than 10 hours into the day.

The site’s sunrise code, run for all 38 cities in its panchang list, puts those mornings (22 March, 23 March, 20 April, 21 April, 6 May and 7 May) on the same tithi in every one of them. The amanta opening is the edge that does not. The new moon at 05:21 on 7 April is only 44 minutes ahead of New Delhi’s sunrise, and further east the dawn comes earlier.

Three Mornings That Change With the Town

The table sets eight cities’ sunrises against three instants: the new moon that opens amanta Chaitra, the start of the Shukla Chaturdashi at 06:08 on 19 April, and the start of the Krishna Panchami at 05:42 on 25 April. The two tithi openings are from the site’s lunar code rather than a table row; across 86 festival-table instants that code differs from the generated tables by at most 1 minute. Each cell gives the local sunrise, the tithi it reads, and how far the sunrise sits from the instant.

The first amanta morning. In New Delhi and the west, 7 April dawns well after the new moon and is plainly the Shukla Pratipada. Kolkata catches it by only 3 minutes, and in Guwahati the Sun is up 13 minutes before the new moon, so the computed reading there is still the Amavasya. Both margins are under the half hour this site wants before it rules on a sunrise tithi; across the full list, seven cities sit inside that zone on 7 April. The festival table’s Gudi Padwa date is worked for New Delhi, and the Navratri 2027 page takes the first Navratri morning from the same row.

A tithi the bright half drops. The shared fortnight has 14 sunrises for fifteen tithis, so one tithi holds no sunrise. New Delhi’s daily table loses the Shukla Chaturdashi, which opens 16 minutes after its 19 April sunrise and ends before the next. Cities that see the Sun later reverse the result: Mumbai’s sunrise is 10 minutes after the opening, so there 19 April reads as the Chaturdashi and it is the Trayodashi that goes without a morning. Of the listed cities, 12 skip the Trayodashi and 25 the Chaturdashi, and nowhere does the Chaturdashi hold its sunrise by more than 10 minutes. None of this moves a festival: Ram Navami before it and Hanuman Jayanti after it read the same in every listed city.

A tithi the amanta dark half repeats. After the April full moon, amanta Chaitra has 16 sunrises for fifteen tithis, so one tithi is current at two consecutive sunrises. In New Delhi that is the Krishna Panchami, which begins just 4 minutes before sunrise on 25 April and is still running at the next dawn. In Kolkata, where the 25 April sunrise comes 34 minutes before the opening, the repeat falls on the Krishna Chaturthi instead; 11 of the listed cities repeat the Chaturthi and 27 the Panchami. A north Indian almanac files this whole fortnight under Vaishakh. For any other town the panchang calculator gives the local reading.

The Lunar New Year Opens in the Middle of the North’s Chaitra

The site’s regional-calendar table records the new year that Chaitra Shukla Pratipada begins: Nav Samvatsar across the Hindi-speaking north, Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra, Samsar Padvo in Goa, Yugadi in Karnataka, Ugadi in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and Navreh in Kashmir. In 2027 that tithi is current at New Delhi’s sunrise on Wednesday 7 April, the festival table’s row for Gudi Padwa, Ugadi and the first day of Chaitra Navratri.

Because the north counts its months from full moon to full moon, its Chaitra is already 15 days old when that year begins. The table records that the Vikram Samvat era, kept with purnimanta months, turns with Chaitra, and that amanta regions count the Shalivahana Shaka era, whose year opens with the month itself. A north Indian reader therefore spends the dark half of Chaitra, 23 March to 6 April, at the close of the old samvat. This page does not print either year number, because no committed data file carries one.

Gujarat is the case the table flags. Its almanacs use amanta months, so a Gujarati Chaitra runs from 7 April to 6 May like the Maharashtrian one, but the Gujarati year opens with Bestu Varas at Kartika Shukla Pratipada, the day after Diwali. Chaitra there is a month in the middle of the year rather than its first, and between spring and Diwali the table notes that a Gujarati almanac’s Samvat year runs one behind a north Indian one.

Festivals and Ekadashis, With Each Calendar’s Month

The timeline below orders the lunations, the Sun’s ingress and the observances. Clock times appear only for instants the site’s tables hold, and the two right-hand columns give the month each calendar assigns to that day’s New Delhi sunrise.

The north’s waning half. In the New Delhi table each of the fifteen tithis from 23 March to 6 April holds exactly one sunrise. Its Ekadashi falls on Friday 2 April; the Ekadashi 2027 list, which uses amanta month names, files it under Phalguna and gives it the vrat-katha name Papmochani, while a north Indian almanac prints the same fast in Chaitra. The fortnight ends with the Amavasya of Tuesday 6 April, Chaitra Amavasya in the north and Phalguna Amavasya to amanta readers. The vrats dated by moonrise or midnight in the week after Holi are on the March 2027 list.

The shared bright half. Chaitra Navratri counts the Shukla Pratipada to the Navami, and in New Delhi those nine tithis take one sunrise each, 7 April to 15 April, with none doubled or dropped. The ninth morning is the festival table’s Ram Navami, Thursday 15 April, and its rule is “tithi at madhyahna”: the Navami opens at 15:24 on 14 April, past that day’s midpoint, and runs until 13:21 on 15 April, past the midpoint of the second day. The Ekadashi of the bright half falls on Saturday 17 April, which the vrat-katha collections call Kamada, and both calendars agree it belongs to Chaitra. The fortnight closes with Hanuman Jayanti on Tuesday 20 April, which the festival rules tie to the Chaitra Purnima at sunrise. That Purnima opens at 04:51, exactly an hour before New Delhi’s dawn; in Guwahati the margin is only 4 minutes, though the reading is the same.

The amanta waning half. After the full moon only the amanta reader is still in Chaitra. Its Ekadashi is on Sunday 2 May, the day the Ekadashi list names Varuthini and files under amanta Chaitra; north Indian almanacs print it in Vaishakh. The month ends with the Amavasya of Thursday 6 May, and two days later the festival table’s Akshaya Tritiya, Saturday 8 May, is a Vaishakh date on both reckonings; the Akshaya Tritiya 2027 page covers it. The rest of the month’s vrats are on the April 2027 list.

The Solar Chaitra: Bengali Calendars and the Sun in Pisces

Searches for the Bengali Chaitra month 2027 are after a different kind of month. The site’s regional-calendar table files West Bengal, Odisha and Assam under a solar civil calendar in which Boishakh opens at the Sun’s entry into sidereal Aries, so the month before it, Chaitra, is the Sun’s stay in Pisces. By the ingress table that stay runs from 06:55 IST on 15 March 2027 to 15:23 IST on 14 April 2027, 30 days and 8 hours. It is under way 8 days before the north’s lunar Chaitra begins and is over before either lunar Chaitra ends. Which civil day each almanac counts as the first or last of its solar month follows rules of its own, and this page leaves that to the panjika.

The Tamil calendar is solar too, but the same table opens its Chithirai with the Sun’s entry into Aries, so the Tamil month begins at the instant the Bengali Chaitra ends rather than running alongside it. The Aries ingress, at 15:23 on 14 April, also lands inside both lunar Chaitras, and it is the only solar ingress between the April and May new moons. That is why the amanta month carries this name: under the convention the Amavasya 2027 list follows, an amanta month is named from the Sun’s sidereal sign at the new moon that opens it, and on 7 April that sign is Pisces. A lunation with no ingress would be adhika, an extra month, and the site’s 2027 table lists none. The north Indian name has a lunar check as well: the nakshatra scheme in the Purnima 2027 list pairs Chaitra with Chitra, and the lunation table places the 21 April full moon in Chitra, in Libra.

Meena Kharmas and What the Muhurat Engine Closes

The site’s Kharmas table runs Meena Kharmas from the Pisces ingress on 15 March to the Aries ingress on 14 April, so it is already in force when either lunar Chaitra opens. Counted by date, the first 23 of the north’s 29 Chaitra days fall inside it and the last six do not; in the amanta month it covers the first eight days, from Gudi Padwa to 14 April. The muhurat engine records the closure as “The Sun is in Pisces. Auspicious beginnings are deferred through the whole transit.” and applies it in every region. Its next open stretch begins on Thursday 15 April, Ram Navami’s date. The Kharmas 2027 page covers the whole month of Pisces.

Of the engine’s 10 occasions, nine list Kharmas among their closures: Marriage (Vivah), Griha Pravesh, Business start, Vehicle purchase, Namakaran (naming), Mundan (first hair-cut), Annaprashan (first food), Upanayan (sacred thread) and Property / land deal. Travel lists no closure at all, so Kharmas leaves its verdicts untouched. For marriage, the strictest of them, the verdicts across the two Chaitras come out as follows; each verdict tests the five panchang limbs (tithi, weekday, nakshatra, yoga and karana) alongside the closures:

The north Indian Chaitra ends with no cleared day: its six open mornings after Kharmas all fail at least one limb. One of its Kharmas days, Thursday 1 April, would have passed all five limbs and is refused on the closure alone. The amanta month’s single cleared day is Wednesday 28 April, with the Moon in Uttara Ashadha at sunrise, and it falls in the fortnight a north Indian almanac already calls Vaishakh. These are the engine’s verdicts, not muhurats: a cleared day is a candidate, and the engine’s own marriage note leaves the lagna window for the pheras to a calculation from both charts. The reasons day by day are on the March, April and May 2027 marriage pages.

Beyond This Page

This page fixes the edges of Chaitra, counts its mornings and reports the engine’s figures; it does not choose a wedding day, set a ghatasthapana time, or say what the month’s fasts yield. The nine Navratri days are set out on the Navratri 2027 page, the full year is in the 2027 festival calendar, and each dated festival has its own page under festivals. In Hindi: चैत्र मास 2027 कब से कब तक: नवरात्रि, राम नवमी, हनुमान जयंती.