Gangaur 2027 Date: Gauri Tritiya, Sindhara and Holi Count

Gangaur (गणगौर) is kept on the third lunar day of Chaitra’s bright half, and in 2027 that day is Friday, 9 April 2027. The name is commonly read as two words joined: Gan, for Shiva, and Gaur, for Gauri, his consort. It belongs above all to Rajasthan, and it is also kept in parts of Madhya Pradesh and by Marwari families living elsewhere. Below are the Tritiya’s opening and close, the sunrise check in three Rajasthan cities and five others, the run of days from Holi, and the Sindhara day before.

When the Tritiya Opens and Closes

The 2027 festival table carries the Pratipada of this fortnight on its Gudi Padwa row and stops there. The Dwitiya and Tritiya come from the site’s tithi code, whose opening for the Dwitiya falls within 1 minute of the table’s Pratipada close; across all 86 festival rows it is tested against, it never strays further than that. By that working the Tritiya begins at 03:10 on 9 April, before dawn, and ends at 01:32 on 10 April, in the small hours of Saturday, a run of 22 hours 22 minutes. A tithi’s start and end are the same instant all over India; only the local clock reading of sunrise changes.

At New Delhi the Sun rises at 06:02 on 9 April, when the Tritiya is already 2 hours 52 minutes old, and the tithi has been gone 4 hours 29 minutes by the next sunrise. That makes 9 April the only morning of the fortnight to dawn on the Tritiya. Nothing here is a vriddhi or a kshaya case, so a sunrise-tithi almanac has no second day to weigh.

Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur and Five More Cities

Western Rajasthan sees the Sun noticeably later than Delhi, so each city was tested against its own sunrise for three mornings, and against its own sunset on the Gangaur day. The columns give the sunrise tithi for 8 April, 9 April and 10 April.

The rows agree. Kolkata, with the earliest dawn here at 05:22, still finds the Tritiya 2 hours 12 minutes old; Ahmedabad, with the latest at 06:25, finds it older. The Tritiya is still current at every listed sunset on 9 April, and it is over at least 3 hours 49 minutes before any of these cities sees the sunrise of 10 April. No local almanac among these places has a reason to move the day.

Counting From the Morning After Holi

Rajasthani custom begins the Gangaur worship on Dhulandi, the day of colours that follows the Holika fire. The festival table puts Holika Dahan on Sunday 21 March and Holi on Monday 22 March, which is 18 days before the Tritiya.

There is a wrinkle this year. Northern calendars take Dhulandi as the first day of Chaitra’s dark half, yet at the New Delhi sunrise of 22 March the Purnima is still current; it ends at 16:13 that afternoon, and the first sunrise on Krishna Pratipada is Tuesday 23 March. A family that starts with the day of colours starts on 22 March; one that waits for the first Pratipada sunrise starts on 23 March. Both are reasonable readings, and your own household’s practice settles it.

From 23 March to 9 April inclusive there are 18 sunrises, and in the daily panchang each one carries a different tithi: the fifteen of the dark half in order, then the Pratipada, Dwitiya and Tritiya of the bright half. No tithi in the run is skipped or repeated at dawn. Popular accounts of the custom speak of sixteen days of worship, and some of eighteen; this page reports those as the custom’s own counts and does not try to match either to the calendar.

Sindhara (सिंधारा) on the Dwitiya

The eve of Gangaur is Sindhara in Rajasthani usage, a day of gifts and mehndi for married women. Taken as the Dwitiya at sunrise, it falls on Thursday, 8 April 2027: the Dwitiya holds the New Delhi dawn that day and in every city in the table. What is given, and by whom, is a family matter that the calendar has nothing to say about.

The Third Morning of Chaitra Navratri

The festival table names its 7 April row “Gudi Padwa, Ugadi & Chaitra Navratri”. That row’s Pratipada opens at 05:21 on 7 April, the instant of the new moon, shortly before the 06:05 sunrise at New Delhi. Counting the Navratri from that morning, Gangaur on 9 April is its third day, and the nine days close with Ram Navami on Thursday 15 April. The month as a whole, with its northern and southern start dates, is set out on the Chaitra month 2027 page.

Isar and Gauri: How the Day Is Kept

In the Rajasthani form of the festival, married women and unmarried girls worship images of Isar and Gauri (ईसर-गौर), made of clay or carved in wood, through the days from Holi, with songs sung for the goddess. Married women keep it, by the custom’s own account, for the welfare of their husbands, and girls for a good husband to come. That is the custom’s stated purpose, reported as such; this page makes no claim about what the worship brings about.

On the Tritiya itself the images of Gauri are taken out in procession. Jaipur’s procession through the old city is the best known of these, and other towns hold their own. Timings for a procession are set by its organisers each year; the panchang does not fix them and neither does this page.

Gangaur 2027 in Brief

• Gangaur (Chaitra Shukla Tritiya at sunrise): Friday, 9 April 2027, in every city tested
• Tritiya: 03:10 on 9 April to 01:32 on 10 April (computed)
• Sindhara (Dwitiya at sunrise): Thursday, 8 April 2027
• Holika Dahan and Holi: 21 March and 22 March; first Krishna Pratipada sunrise 23 March
• Chaitra Navratri begins: Wednesday, 7 April 2027

The neighbouring days have pages of their own: Holi 2027, Gudi Padwa 2027 and Ram Navami 2027. The month’s other fasts are on the April 2027 vrat and tyohar list, your own town’s sunrise is on the panchang tool, and the festival hub indexes the rest. In Hindi: गणगौर 2027: गौरी तृतीया की तारीख, सिंधारा और होली से गिनती.