Hanuman Jayanti Twice a Year: Chaitra and Kartik Dates

A north Indian calendar can print Hanuman Jayanti on two days of the same year, and neither is a misprint. The better-known one is the full moon of Chaitra, in spring. The other is the Chaturdashi of Kartik’s dark fortnight, the tithi that leads into Diwali. The next to arrive is the Kartik one, on the evening of Saturday, 7 November 2026, or at dawn on Sunday, 8 November 2026, depending on how your calendar reads the tithi. The next Chaitra Purnima date is Tuesday, 20 April 2027. Calendars in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh add a third date, in early summer. All of them, from 2026 to 2028, are worked below from the site’s computed panchang.

Every Date, 2026 to 2028 (हनुमान जयंती साल में दो बार)

The Chaitra and Kartik spans are the generated festival tables’ own figures: the Hanuman Jayanti rows, and the Narak Chaturdashi rows, which sit on the same Kartik tithi. The tables have no Telugu row. The 2027 Dashami comes from the site’s DE421 tithi list, and the 2026 one from its lunar code, which reproduces the tables to within 1 minute on the 86 festival rows it is checked against. The Telugu date is not worked for 2028, because the site’s DE421 tithi list stops in early January 2028. Sunrise is for New Delhi unless a city is named.

Why Two Dates? (दो बार क्यों)

The two dates belong to two separate traditions of the festival, and each has its own temples and families behind it. The Chaitra Purnima is the more widely printed of the two, and it is the one this site’s festival table lists under the name Hanuman Jayanti. The Kartik Chaturdashi is kept by other households and temples in the north; in Gujarat the same night is Kali Chaudas, and its worship already turns to Kali and Hanuman. Popular retellings often explain the second date by tying a different episode from Hanuman’s story to it, but the retellings do not agree on which episode, or even on which of the two dates is the birth. This page does not decide between them. Which day a family keeps, or whether it keeps both, is a matter of that family’s custom.

The two are not evenly spaced. In 2027 the Chaitra date falls on 20 April and the Kartik one on 28 October, 191 days apart, a little over six months; from Kartik back round to the next Chaitra is shorter.

Kartik Hanuman Jayanti: Choti Diwali Evening or Diwali Morning (कार्तिक हनुमान जयंती)

A tithi rarely lines up with a civil day, so a calendar has to choose the moment at which it checks which tithi is current. The festival table checks this Chaturdashi at pradosh, the evening window that opens at sunset, and that gives the Choti Diwali date. A calendar that checks at sunrise can land on the next day. Whether the two readings split depends on where the Chaturdashi’s two ends fall against sunrise and sunset:

• 2026: the Chaturdashi opens at 10:48 on 7 November 2026, after that morning’s sunrise, and runs to 11:28 the next day. The evening of 7 November holds it; so does the sunrise of 8 November, which is Diwali itself.
• 2027: it opens at 22:50 on the night of 27 October 2027 and lasts until 20:48 on 28 October 2027, past sunset. Sunrise and pradosh fall on the same day, Thursday 28 October 2027, so there is no choice to make.
• 2028: the 2026 pattern again. It opens at 15:45 on 16 October 2028 and ends at 12:05 on 17 October 2028, so the evening reading gives Monday 16 October and the dawn reading gives Diwali, Tuesday 17 October.

The 2026 split, and what it does to the dawn bath of the same day, is worked in detail on the Narak Chaturdashi 2026 page. That page also explains the month name. North Indian calendars, which end their months at the full moon, call this fortnight Kartik Krishna; calendars in Gujarat and Maharashtra, which end them at the new moon, still count it in Ashwin. That is why the same day can appear as “Kartik” Hanuman Jayanti in one almanac and under Ashwin in another.

Chaitra Purnima: One Sunrise a Year

The spring date is read at sunrise, and in each of the three years exactly one sunrise lies inside the Purnima, so the table’s date is the only candidate on that reading. 2026 came closest to a choice. Its Purnima opened at 07:06 on 1 April 2026, 55 minutes after that morning’s sunrise, so almost all of that day’s daylight lay inside the full moon, but the sunrise belonged to the Chaturdashi and the date went to Thursday 2 April. In 2027 the Purnima opens at 04:51, before dawn on 20 April 2027, and is over at 03:57 the next morning, before the next sunrise. The 2028 date is Sunday, 9 April 2028.

The Telugu Date: Vaishakha Bahula Dashami

Telugu calendars in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh place Hanuman Jayanti on Vaishakha Bahula Dashami, the tenth day of the dark fortnight of Vaishakha. Both states end their months at the new moon, so this is the second dark-fortnight Dashami after the Chaitra Purnima. A north Indian calendar files the same tithi under Jyeshtha Krishna. In 2027 it runs from 30 May 09:35 to 31 May 10:02, and the one sunrise inside it is that of Monday, 31 May 2027, at 05:41 in Hyderabad; Visakhapatnam’s sunrise that morning falls inside it too. The Dashami opens on the morning before, after sunrise, so that day does not qualify on a sunrise reading. The 2026 date, Tuesday 12 May 2026, has passed.

Counted from the Chaitra Purnima, the Telugu date came 40 days later in 2026 and comes 41 days later in 2027. The gap moves by a day because tithis vary in length and each date is fixed by whichever sunrise the tithi happens to hold.

Other Regional Calendars

Tamil temple calendars keep Hanumath Jayanthi in Margazhi, a month counted by the Sun’s sign rather than by the Moon, on the new moon of that month. This page does not compute that date, because it depends on a solar month boundary, which the site does not print as an observance date. Ask your local temple or panchang for it.

Jayanti or Janmotsav? (जयंती या जन्मोत्सव)

Some temple bodies and writers prefer the name Hanuman Janmotsav. Their reasoning is that “jayanti” marks the birth anniversary of a figure who is no longer living, whereas the Puranic lists count Hanuman among the chiranjivi, the ones who do not die. Both names refer to the same days, and calendars use either.

Neighbouring Dates and Pages

The spring dates have their own pages at Hanuman Jayanti 2027 and Hanuman Jayanti 2028. The 2027 Chaturdashi is on Narak Chaturdashi 2027, and every computed festival is on the festival pages. For the weekly practice, the Tuesday fast for Hanuman page covers the Mangalvar vrat, and Hanuman Chalisa in Vedic astrology covers what the recitation is traditionally prescribed for. Sunrise for your own town is in the panchang tool.