July 2027 Festival List: Rath Yatra to Guru Purnima

All three of July 2027’s festival rows belong to the bright fortnight of Ashadha. Jagannath Rath Yatra comes on Monday 5 July, Devshayani Ekadashi on Wednesday 14 July opens Chaturmas, and Guru Purnima closes the fortnight on Sunday 18 July. The rest of the month is the regular cycle of fasts: three Pradosh evenings, two Masik Shivratris, a Sankashti, a Kalashtami, and a Kamika Ekadashi in the last week that no New Delhi sunrise touches. The table lists all 15 observances by date. The sections under it take the month in order, and show where the north Indian Sawan begins. Every entry here is a religious observance; the site keeps no table of public or bank holidays, so none is listed.

July 2027 Vrat and Festival Dates (व्रत त्योहार)

The dates are for New Delhi. They come from the site’s panchang tables, which are built on NASA JPL’s DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa, and the tithi edges come from a calculator that the site has checked against 86 rows of those tables, never more than 1 minute out. A tithi starts and ends at one instant for the whole country, while sunrise, sunset and moonrise shift from town to town, so a row near the edge of its tithi can land a day apart elsewhere. July’s Kamika Ekadashi and its Purnima evenings are the rows to watch. The panchang tool gives the reading for your own town.

Ashadha Opens on 4 July; Sawan Begins After Guru Purnima

Two kinds of almanac name July’s days differently. The amanta kind, common in western and southern India, begins a month at the new moon and names it from the Sun’s sidereal sign at that instant. The purnimanta kind, usual in the north, begins it at the full moon, which puts it one name ahead through every dark fortnight.

The new moon falls at 08:32 on Sunday 4 July, with the Sun in Gemini, and amanta almanacs open Ashadha there; purnimanta Ashadha has been running since the June full moon. The three rows before it, a Pradosh, a Shivratri and the Amavasya, are amanta Jyeshtha. From the new moon to the full moon at 21:14 on 18 July, both systems agree on Ashadha, and the whole bright fortnight with its three festivals falls in that stretch. The full moon then opens purnimanta Shravana, the Sawan of north Indian calendars, while amanta almanacs stay in Ashadha until the next new moon at 15:35 on 2 August. So the five rows after Guru Purnima, Kamika Ekadashi among them, are Ashadha in one almanac and Shravana in the other. The Sawan 2027 page gives that month’s span and its Mondays, and the Ashadha month 2027 page gives both versions of Ashadha.

The Sun moves into Cancer at 05:42 on Saturday 17 July, the day before Guru Purnima. That ingress does not rename the month already under way, but under the naming rule above it is why the August new moon opens a month called Shravana. The site prints the ingress as an instant only and assigns it no Sankranti observance day.

1 to 4 July: Guru Pradosh, Shivratri, Amavasya

The month opens with the Guru Pradosh Vrat on Thursday 1 July: the Krishna Trayodashi begins at 18:15 that evening, in time for the pradosh window. Masik Shivratri follows on Friday 2 July, as the Chaturdashi holds that night. The Amavasya starts at 12:06 on 3 July and is still current at sunrise on Sunday 4 July, which gives it that date; amanta almanacs call it the Jyeshtha Amavasya and purnimanta ones the Ashadha Amavasya.

Rath Yatra on a Morning That Skips Pratipada

The Shukla Pratipada that follows the new moon runs from 08:32 on 4 July to 04:51 on 5 July. No sunrise falls inside it, since 4 July dawns on the Amavasya and 5 July on the Dwitiya, so in New Delhi the first day of the bright fortnight is a lost tithi. The Dwitiya begins the moment the Pratipada ends, 37 minutes before the 05:28 sunrise, and that places Jagannath Rath Yatra on Monday 5 July. The festival rules key it to the Ashadha Shukla Dwitiya at sunrise.

The sky is busy on the same date. Mars enters Virgo at 04:24, before the Dwitiya has begun; Mercury turns direct in Gemini that day (the Mercury transit 2027 page dates its stations to the day); and the Moon enters Pushya at 09:19, staying until 06:33 on Tuesday 6 July. Pushya therefore holds only the Tuesday sunrise, and July has neither a Guru Pushya nor a Ravi Pushya; the Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya 2027 list has the year. Two days after Rath Yatra, Vinayaka Chaturthi is Wednesday 7 July, the one day whose madhyahna, the midday fifth of daylight, the Shukla Chaturthi reaches.

Devshayani Ekadashi and the Start of Chaturmas

Masik Durgashtami on Sunday 11 July comes three days before the Ekadashi. 13 July still dawns on the Dashami, and the Shukla Ekadashi opens at 12:09 that day, then lasts until 13:10 on Wednesday 14 July. That gives it a single sunrise, the Wednesday’s, and by that morning’s arunodaya, 96 minutes before sunrise, it has been running for more than 15 hours, so the Vaishnava test leaves the date where the sunrise rule puts it. That Ekadashi is Devshayani Ekadashi, and the table gives it a single row instead of listing a bare Shukla Ekadashi beside it.

The festival table marks Devshayani as the day Chaturmas begins, and the site’s closure table runs the period from 14 July to Dev Uthani Ekadashi on 10 November. The festival’s name records how Hindu tradition reads the period, as the four months in which Vishnu is asleep. The Chaturmas 2027 page sets out the window and how it bears on the site’s muhurat counts for weddings, griha pravesh and upanayan. Next is the Guru Pradosh Vrat of Thursday 15 July, the second Thursday Pradosh of the month.

Guru Purnima, and a Purnima With Two Evenings

The Purnima opens at 18:48 on Saturday 17 July, after that day’s sunrise, and ends with the full moon at 21:14 on Sunday 18 July. Only the Sunday sunrise falls inside it, so Guru Purnima, which the festival rules fix by the tithi at sunrise, is 18 July with no second candidate. The Ashadha Purnima has a row of its own, as the Purnima list counts it separately, and under the sunrise reading it takes the same day.

An evening reading is less tidy. The tithi is already running at sunset on Saturday 17 July, but by only 32 minutes, and is still running at the Sunday sunset with 115 minutes to spare. Both evenings pass the test that calendars printing a separate Purnima upavas tend to use, so the test cannot pick between them. The Purnima 2027 list shows both and rules on neither, and it adds that the narrow first margin fails in cities further east.

The Dark Fortnight: Panchak, Kamika and a Saturday Pair

The month’s only Panchak opens at 07:03 on 21 July and lifts at 05:13 on 26 July. Of the table’s rows, only Sankashti Chaturthi on Thursday 22 July falls inside it, read from the 21:23 New Delhi moonrise inside the Krishna Chaturthi. Venus crosses into Cancer at 01:42 on 23 July, also inside the Panchak. Kalashtami on Monday 26 July comes just after: the Panchak ends that morning, and the Ashtami starts at 10:25 and holds the night.

Kamika Ekadashi, the dark-fortnight Ekadashi of amanta Ashadha (purnimanta Shravana), is a kshaya. It begins at 07:34 on Thursday 29 July, 114 minutes after that day’s sunrise, and ends at 05:13 on 30 July, 28 minutes before the next one. The daily table reads Dashami at the Thursday dawn and Dwadashi at the Friday dawn, so no sunrise belongs to the Ekadashi at all. The table lists it under 29 July, the day the tithi actually runs, but that is one of two candidates. Calendars that refuse an Ekadashi with Dashami at arunodaya, or that go by the first sunrise after the tithi, keep Friday 30 July instead. The Ekadashi 2027 list treats this as the year’s one lost Ekadashi and compares six cities, because a margin under half an hour can change with the local sunrise. Mercury enters Cancer at 18:28 on 30 July.

The month closes on Saturday 31 July with two rows on one date. The Krishna Trayodashi, from 02:18 that morning, fills the pradosh window and makes it a Shani Pradosh Vrat, and at 22:58 it gives way to the Chaturdashi, which holds the night and gives the month its second Masik Shivratri. In a purnimanta almanac both are already in Sawan.

Related Pages

The previous month is on the June 2027 vrat and festival list, and the next on the August 2027 list. Day-by-day tithi and nakshatra are on the July 2027 panchang. For the whole year, see the 2027 festival calendar, the festivals hub, the Pradosh Vrat 2027 list, the Masik Shivratri 2027 list and the Sun transit 2027 page.