Ekadashi 2027 List: All 25 Dates, Names and Months

The calendar year 2027 contains twenty-five Ekadashis: twelve in the bright fortnight and thirteen in the dark. Most of them settle on a single morning without argument. Three do not, and one more comes closer than the rest, so the list below gives every date first and then works through those four, showing what each of the two common readings makes of them.

Why Twenty-five, and Why Two Saphalas

Two Ekadashis come round in every lunation, and twelve lunations fall a little short of a solar year. The year’s first Ekadashi is on Sunday 3 January, only two days in, and it is Saphala, the dark-fortnight Ekadashi of the amanta Margashirsha. Twelve lunations later the same Ekadashi comes back on Thursday 23 December, 354 days on and with eight days of the year still to run. That second Saphala is the twenty-fifth Ekadashi; a year whose first Ekadashi fell much later in the opening month would have room for only twenty-four. No lunation of 2027 carries the Sun in the same sign at both of its new moons, so there is no added month this year and every month name below occurs once.

A name can still repeat without a month repeating. The label Putrada belongs to two different bright-fortnight Ekadashis, the Pausha one on 19 January and the Shravana one on 12 August; lists that drop the month word make them look like duplicates. The Saphala Ekadashi 2027 page explains why the previous calendar year held no Saphala at all.

The 2027 List (एकादशी व्रत)

Dates are for New Delhi, where the site’s daily panchang is computed. Where a row shows two days, the note says which kind of disagreement it is, and the sections that follow give the detail. The month column gives the amanta name first; for a dark-fortnight Ekadashi the purnimanta calendars of north India count one month ahead, and that name follows the slash.

How the Dates and Names Were Worked Out

A Hindu calendar day takes the tithi that is current at sunrise, and that is the first reading the table applies: a date appears when New Delhi’s sunrise falls inside a Shukla or Krishna Ekadashi. That rule, the one Smarta almanacs print by, has a blind spot. An Ekadashi that begins after one sunrise and ends before the next is never current at any sunrise, and a list built only from sunrises would quietly skip it. So the start and end of every Ekadashi in the year were also computed directly, one per fortnight, and checked against the daily table’s sunrises in both directions. Those instants are not in the festival tables; they come from the site’s lunar code. Measured against the 86 tithi spans the DE421 festival tables do print, that code is never more than 1 minute out at either end.

The second reading is the Vaishnava one, set out in the Hari Bhakti Vilasa and applied by ISKCON and other Vaishnava calendars. It looks not at sunrise but at arunodaya, the stretch of four ghatikas, about 96 minutes, before it, and it will not keep an Ekadashi on a morning when Dashami is still running at that hour. For most of the year the two readings agree, because the Ekadashi has begun well before arunodaya. The page treats a difference of under 30 minutes between a tithi boundary and the moment it is compared with as too close to settle from computed minutes, and says so where it happens.

Month names follow the amanta convention used in the site’s festival rules: a lunar month runs from new moon to new moon and is named from the sidereal sign the Sun occupies when it opens, so the lunation that begins with the Sun in Pisces is Chaitra, in Aries Vaishakha, and so on round the zodiac. The Ekadashi names are the labels the vrat-katha collections give to each month’s two Ekadashis. They are used here to identify the days, and the page reads nothing into any of them about what the fast yields.

Vijaya: One Ekadashi, Two Sunrises

The Magha dark-fortnight Ekadashi runs from 04:45 on 3 March to 07:24 on 4 March. That is long enough to be current at sunrise on both Wednesday 3 March and Thursday 4 March: it begins 119 minutes before the first and is still running 41 minutes after the second. This is vriddhi, a tithi that grows across two dawns, and the sunrise rule on its own does not choose between them.

The calendars split. Smarta almanacs generally keep the first day, 3 March; Vaishnava calendars generally keep the second, 4 March. The arunodaya test does not settle the first morning cleanly either: in New Delhi the Ekadashi is only 23 minutes ahead of the arunodaya mark, which is inside this page’s margin. Both days are given here, and the choice belongs to the calendar a household already follows.

Amalaki: Clear, by a Narrow Margin

The Phalguna bright-fortnight Ekadashi begins at 04:21 on 18 March, so on Thursday 18 March it holds the New Delhi sunrise and has also passed arunodaya, with 31 minutes to spare. On the site’s own threshold that is clear, and both readings give the same day there. It is the closest clearance of the year, though, and a margin that size depends on whose sunrise is used. Where the sun rises earlier than in New Delhi, arunodaya comes earlier with it, and the fixed start of the tithi has less of a lead; computed for Chennai, Kolkata and Guwahati, the same Ekadashi is too close to call, as the city table below shows.

Kamika: An Ekadashi That No Sunrise Touches

The Ashadha dark-fortnight Ekadashi opens at 07:34 on 29 July, 114 minutes after that morning’s sunrise, and closes at 05:13 on 30 July, less than half an hour (28 minutes) before the next New Delhi sunrise. That end is close, so the call here rests on the daily table, which reads the tithi at each sunrise from the DE421 ephemeris: Thursday 29 July dawns on Krishna Dashami and Friday 30 July on Krishna Dwadashi, and the Ekadashi lies wholly between. This is kshaya, a lost tithi, and it is the case a sunrise-only list drops. Further east, where the sun is up earlier, the end of the tithi and the next sunrise come closer together; the city table below shows where the minutes stop settling it.

There are two candidate days, and they answer different questions. The Thursday is the day the Ekadashi actually runs, through almost all of its daylight and into the night. The Friday is the first sunrise after the tithi, which by then is Dwadashi. A calendar applying the arunodaya test cannot use the Thursday, since Dashami is running at its dawn; a calendar that goes by the day the tithi occupies can. Almanacs differ over this, and this page shows both days without choosing.

Rama: Dashami Before Dawn

The Ashwina dark-fortnight Ekadashi begins at 05:41 on 25 October, just 46 minutes before sunrise on Monday 25 October. By the sunrise reading that settles it: the morning is Ekadashi, and the day is 25 October. By the arunodaya reading it does not, because Dashami will still be current 50 minutes into the pre-dawn window. A calendar that rejects a Dashami-touched Ekadashi moves the fast to the following day, Tuesday 26 October, which dawns on Krishna Dwadashi. Unlike Amalaki, this is not a near thing: the table below finds Dashami at arunodaya in every one of the six cities by more than the page’s margin. The two dates belong to two rules, and the page gives both.

The Four Mornings in Six Cities

The tithi instants are the same across India; the sunrise they are compared with is not. Each cell compares the computed Ekadashi boundary with that city’s sunrise or arunodaya, and anything under 30 minutes is marked too close.

The Kamika column is the one to read twice. In New Delhi the daily table settles it, as above, but in Kolkata and Guwahati the tithi’s end and the next sunrise are within the page’s margin of each other, so whether that Ekadashi is lost there, or just catches a dawn, is not something these minutes can settle. On Vijaya’s second morning, Mumbai and Ahmedabad are too close to call as well, so even the second sunrise of the vriddhi is uncertain there. For your own town’s sunrise, use the panchang calculator.

Four Rows the Festival Tables Already Carry

The generated festival table for 2027 has its own rows for four of these Ekadashis, and the computed list agrees with each to the day and with its tithi instants to the minute tolerance stated above: Nirjala on 14 June, Devshayani on 14 July, Dev Uthani on 10 November and Mokshada on 9 December. Devshayani and Dev Uthani bracket Chaturmas and fall 119 days apart in 2027, with seven more Ekadashis between them, Kamika and Rama among them.

Breaking the Fast

Parana, the meal that ends an Ekadashi fast, is taken on Dwadashi, after sunrise. Its window depends on when Dwadashi ends and on the local sunrise, so it changes with each Ekadashi and each town; this list does not print one for every date. A panchang for your own place gives the window, and the single-Ekadashi pages on this site, such as the 2026 Utpanna Ekadashi and Rama Ekadashi pages, work one through in detail.

Other 2027 Lists and Pages

The Trayodashi fasts that follow each Ekadashi within its fortnight are listed in Pradosh Vrat 2027, and the monthly Shiva night in Masik Shivratri 2027. Every sunrise of the two Ekadashi tithis across the site’s tables is on the Shukla Ekadashi and Krishna Ekadashi pages. The festivals are collected in the 2027 festival calendar and on the festival pages, and the Mokshada that comes just before the first Saphala, in 2026, is covered on its own page. In Hindi: एकादशी 2027 लिस्ट: सभी 25 एकादशियों की तारीखें, नाम और मास.