June 2027 Festival List: Nirjala Ekadashi and Every Vrat

June 2027 is a Jyeshtha month for almost every almanac in India, and its three festivals all sit in the first half: Shani Jayanti on the new moon, then Ganga Dussehra and Nirjala Ekadashi on consecutive days of the bright fortnight. Around them come three Ekadashis in all, two Wednesday Pradosh evenings, an Angarki Sankashti on a Tuesday and a Jyeshtha Purnima that holds two sunrises. The table gives all 14 observances in date order with the reading behind each one; the sections after it walk through the month and explain where the name Jyeshtha gives way to Ashadha.

June 2027 Festival and Vrat Dates (व्रत त्योहार)

Each date is worked out for New Delhi from the site’s panchang tables, generated from NASA JPL’s DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The tithi start and end instants come from the site’s tithi calculator, which has been compared with 86 rows of those tables and stays within 1 minute of every one. An instant is the same across India, but sunrise, sunset and moonrise are not, so a row that sits near an edge can move by a day in a distant city. For your own town, open the panchang tool.

Jyeshtha or Ashadha? How June’s Month Names Run

An amanta almanac, the kind most used in western and southern India, starts each lunar month at a new moon and names it after the sidereal sign the Sun occupies at that moment. A purnimanta almanac, the usual north Indian kind, starts the month at the full moon instead, so in the dark fortnight it is always one name ahead. June 2027 shows both turnovers.

The new moon at 01:10 on 5 June comes with the Sun in Taurus, so amanta calendars open Jyeshtha there. The full moon at 06:14 on 19 June ends purnimanta Jyeshtha and opens purnimanta Ashadha. Between those two instants, for about 14 days, both kinds of almanac say Jyeshtha. Amanta Ashadha waits for the next new moon, at 08:32 on 4 July, by which point the Sun has moved into Gemini. The practical upshot is at either end of the month. The rows of the first four days, Shani Jayanti among them, are Vaishakha in an amanta almanac and Jyeshtha in a purnimanta one, and the three rows after the full moon are Jyeshtha in the first kind and Ashadha in the second. The Sun’s own move into Gemini, at 18:50 on 15 June, does not change any lunar month name; the site prints it as that instant and gives no Sankranti observance day for it.

Apara Ekadashi to Shani Jayanti

The month opens on an Ekadashi. Apara Ekadashi, the Krishna Ekadashi of amanta Vaishakha, runs from 10:03 on 31 May to 09:40 on Tuesday 1 June, so only the Tuesday sunrise falls inside it. The Panchak that began in late May lasts until 12:49 that same day.

Three days in a row follow. The Budh Pradosh Vrat on Wednesday 2 June has a Trayodashi that covers the whole pradosh window; Masik Shivratri comes on Thursday 3 June, the day Saturn leaves Pisces for Aries (the Saturn transit 2027 page covers that change, which the site dates to the day and not the minute). Then Shani Jayanti falls on Friday 4 June. The festival table sets it on the Amavasya, read at sunrise: the tithi opens at 04:05, 78 minutes before the 05:23 sunrise, and closes with the new moon at 01:10 on 5 June. The site’s festival rules place it in amanta Vaishakha; a purnimanta calendar, a month ahead in the dark fortnight, prints the same day as Jyeshtha Amavasya. The table lists the Amavasya on a row of its own as well, because the Amavasya 2027 list counts it there. Venus crosses into Taurus at 00:37, in the first hour of the same date and before the Amavasya has begun.

Vinayaka Chaturthi, Pushya and Mercury’s Station

Vinayaka Chaturthi is Tuesday 8 June, the only day whose madhyahna its Shukla Chaturthi reaches, and then only in part, since the tithi ends at 12:22. The Moon is in Pushya from 23:45 on Monday night until 21:36 on Tuesday, a passage that holds a single sunrise, Tuesday’s. Neither the sunrise reading nor the vaar reading reaches a Thursday or a Sunday, so June has no Guru Pushya and no Ravi Pushya; the Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya 2027 page gives the year’s list.

On 10 June Mercury stations retrograde in Gemini, and it turns direct again on 5 July; the Mercury transit 2027 page has both stations. The next day, Friday 11 June, is Masik Durgashtami.

Ganga Dussehra and Nirjala Ekadashi

Ganga Dussehra is Sunday 13 June. Hindu calendars keep it on the Jyeshtha Shukla Dashami for the descent of the Ganga, and the festival table fixes it by the tithi at sunrise: the Dashami opens at 02:44 that morning, hours before dawn, and runs to 02:12 on 14 June.

At that same instant the Ekadashi begins, which makes Nirjala Ekadashi Monday 14 June. The tithi lasts until 02:08 on 15 June and holds one sunrise, so the date is not in doubt by the ordinary rule. Vaishnava calendars add a second test, rejecting an Ekadashi that still has Dashami at arunodaya, 96 minutes before sunrise. That test does not move it, since the Ekadashi has been running for 94 minutes by then; the same holds for Apara and Yogini this month, so June has no Ekadashi vriddhi, no kshaya and no split between Smarta and Vaishnava dates. Nirjala is the bright-fortnight Ekadashi of Jyeshtha, so the table carries it on one row rather than adding a separate Shukla Ekadashi line. Its name means “without water”, and in Vaishnava custom it is kept that way; the Ekadashi 2027 list sets it beside the other Ekadashis of the year.

The Sun enters Gemini on Tuesday 15 June, the day after Nirjala, at the instant given above, and the Budh Pradosh Vrat of 16 June gives the month its second Wednesday Pradosh.

Jyeshtha Purnima Holds Two Sunrises

The Jyeshtha Purnima opens at 04:35 on Friday 18 June, before sunrise, and the full moon that ends it comes at 06:14 on Saturday 19 June, 51 minutes after that day’s sunrise. Both mornings begin inside the tithi, which makes it a vriddhi, and the sunrise rule alone cannot pick one. The table prints 18 June, the first, and notes 19 June as the day some calendars keep. Only the Friday sunset falls inside the tithi, and the Purnima list uses that evening to settle the date; calendars that prefer the second morning print the Saturday.

After the Full Moon: Angarki Sankashti to Yogini Ekadashi

Sankashti Chaturthi falls on Tuesday 22 June, when New Delhi’s moonrise at 21:52 is inside the Krishna Chaturthi. A Sankashti on a Tuesday is the one almanacs print as Angarki. Two days later, at 00:50 on 24 June, the month’s second Panchak begins, and it runs until 21:48 on 28 June. Kalashtami on Saturday 26 June is the one row inside it. Jupiter returns to Leo on 26 June, having dropped back into Cancer earlier in the year, and Venus moves into Gemini at 14:35 on 28 June, hours before the Panchak lifts. The Jupiter transit 2027 page lists all three of Jupiter’s sign changes in the year.

Yogini Ekadashi on Wednesday 30 June closes the month. It is amanta Jyeshtha’s Krishna Ekadashi, which a purnimanta almanac files under Ashadha. In July, Jagannath Rath Yatra falls on 5 July, the day after amanta Ashadha begins, and Devshayani Ekadashi on 14 July starts Chaturmas; neither is in June.

Related Pages

The month before is on the May 2027 vrat and festival list, and the March 2027 list uses the same method. The June 2027 panchang has each day’s tithi and nakshatra. For the year, see the 2027 festival calendar, the festivals hub, the Purnima 2027 list, the Sankashti Chaturthi 2027 list and the Sun transit 2027 page.