Hal Shashti 2027 Date: Monday 23 August (Halchhath)

Hal Shashti 2027 (हल षष्ठी) is on Monday 23 August. The same day goes by Halchhath in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, Lalahi Chhath in Bihar, and Balarama Jayanti in calendars that name it for Krishna’s elder brother. It is the Krishna Shashthi of Bhadrapada as the north counts months, and in 2027 that tithi is current at sunrise on 23 August and on no other morning, in all twelve cities this page checks. There is no second candidate day to weigh.

The Shashthi, End to End

The festival table on this site has no Hal Shashti row, so the tithi’s two ends come from the site’s own tithi code. That code is tested on every build against the start and end instants of 86 festival rows, and it matches all of them to within 1 min.

• Krishna Shashthi begins: 20:46 on Sunday 22 August
• Krishna Shashthi ends: 20:53 on Monday 23 August
• Length: 24 hours 7 min

Both ends fall after dark. On 22 August the New Delhi sun sets at 18:54 and the Panchami still has a while to go; the Shashthi takes over at 20:46, so the 22 August daylight belongs wholly to the Panchami. The next morning’s 05:54 sunrise finds the Shashthi already running, and it lasts through the whole of Monday’s daylight and past the 18:52 sunset before the Saptami begins at 20:53. A tithi that covers one full day from dawn to dusk, and touches neither neighbour’s sunrise, leaves the sunrise rule and the daytime reading pointing at the same date.

Which Month Is It In?

The August full moon falls at the Tuesday 17 August sunrise, the date of Raksha Bandhan 2027. Calendars in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan begin Bhadrapada as that full moon ends, so the dark fortnight after it is Bhadrapada Krishna, and Hal Shashti lands six days in. Calendars that close the month at the new moon still have this fortnight in Shravana; the tithi and the date do not change, only the month’s label. The Bhadrapada month 2027 page sets the two reckonings side by side.

Twelve Cities at Their Own Sunrise

A tithi starts and stops at one instant for the whole country, while sunrise moves from east to west. The table therefore runs two checks for each city on each of three days: the tithi at that city’s own sunrise, and the tithi at a single daytime test point set halfway between that city’s sunrise and sunset. The test point is only a probe for the middle of the day; it is not a puja window, and the page prints no clock value for it.

Each cell shows one tithi because the sunrise check and the daytime check agreed in every city on every day. The earliest 23 August dawn on the list is Patna’s at 05:25, and even there the Shashthi is more than 8 hours 30 min old. The latest is Jodhpur’s at 06:13; its sunset at 19:07 is also the latest, and the tithi still runs on for 1 hour 46 min after it. The night before, the Shashthi opens over an hour after sunset everywhere listed. No city in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh or Rajasthan gives a local almanac a reason to move the day.

How Far Is Janmashtami?

A common rule of thumb puts Hal Shashti two days before Krishna Janmashtami. In 2027 that holds only against the Ashtami’s own sunrise, which is Wednesday 25 August. The site’s festival table dates Janmashtami 2027 by the tithi current at nishita, the middle of the night, and on that rule it is Tuesday 24 August, one day after Hal Shashti, because the Ashtami opens at 20:25 that evening, after the 18:51 sunset. The table’s opening instant and the end of the computed Saptami agree to within 1 min. So the gap is one day or two depending on which Janmashtami a household follows, and the calendar it uses will say which.

Three days earlier, the Krishna Tritiya holds the Friday 20 August sunrise, which is the date of Kajari Teej 2027. Gujarati calendar custom keeps this same Shashthi sunrise as Randhan Chhath, the cooking day ahead of Shitala Satam; the Sheetala Ashtami 2027 page works through that sequence. Halchhath also should not be confused with the Kartik festival of the sun covered on the Chhath Puja page; the two share a name and a Shashthi tithi, but fall in different months and different fortnights.

The Plough and the Custom

Hal means plough. In temple images Balarama is shown holding one, and the name of the day comes from that emblem. The Balarama Jayanti name rests on the account, carried in the calendars that use it, that Balarama was born on this Shashthi.

In Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, the women who keep the Halchhath fast avoid grain grown in a ploughed field for the day, and many households also leave aside produce that came from tilled ground. In Chhattisgarh the custom’s own account names pasahi rice, which grows without ploughing, and mahua among the things placed in the puja and eaten once the fast ends. Which foods a family uses, and how strictly, is passed down within the family rather than set by the tithi.

Families commonly describe the vrat as kept by mothers for the welfare of their children. Some regional tellings name sons in particular; that is the custom’s wording, reported here and not adopted. This page makes no claim about what keeping the fast does for anyone. Practice differs on whether water is taken during the day, and anyone with a medical condition, or who is pregnant, should ask their doctor before fasting without water.

Hal Shashti 2027 in Brief

• Hal Shashti / Halchhath / Lalahi Chhath: Monday 23 August, by sunrise tithi, in all twelve cities tested
• Krishna Shashthi: 20:46 on 22 August to 20:53 on 23 August
• New Delhi sunrise and sunset on 23 August: 05:54 and 18:52
• Janmashtami (festival table, nishita rule): Tuesday 24 August; Krishna Ashtami at sunrise on Wednesday 25 August

The full run of the month’s observances is on the August 2027 vrat and tyohar list, and the Radha Ashtami 2027 page covers the Shukla Ashtami in the bright half of the same Bhadrapada. For your own town’s sunrise, open the panchang tool; the festival hub lists every festival-table date.