Jyeshtha Month 2027: Start and End Dates, Nirjala Ekadashi

Jyeshtha 2027 at a Glance (ज्येष्ठ मास)

Jyeshtha, often shortened to Jeth in the north, is the third lunar month, and almanacs disagree about where it sits in 2027 by a full fortnight. Counted from full moon to full moon, as purnimanta calendars across north India do, it opens on Friday 21 May, the morning after Buddha Purnima, and its final morning is Saturday 19 June. Counted from new moon to new moon, the amanta way followed in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and the Telugu states, it begins on Saturday 5 June and ends on Sunday 4 July. Each version has 30 sunrises at New Delhi.

Both calendars call the bright fortnight from 5 June to 19 June Jyeshtha, fifteen mornings that hold Ganga Dussehra, Nirjala Ekadashi and the Jyeshtha Purnima. Before it, 21 May to 4 June is Jyeshtha only for the north; an amanta almanac still prints Vaishakh over those days, which is why Shani Jayanti on 4 June turns up under two month names. After it, 20 June to 4 July is still Jyeshtha only on amanta calendars, while the north has moved on to Ashadha. The Vaishakh 2027 page covers the month before, and the Ashadha 2027 page the month after.

One Jyeshtha in 2027, After Two in 2026

The year before had a doubled month. The site’s 2026 panchang table carries an Adhika Jyeshtha from 17 May 2026 to 15 June 2026, an intercalary lunation, and the muhurat engine’s 2026 closure list shuts that whole stretch for weddings and griha pravesh. Its definition, in the engine’s own closure row, is a lunation with no solar ingress inside it.

By that test 2027 has nothing to insert. Between the amanta new moons of 5 June and 4 July the Sun crosses exactly one sign boundary, entering sidereal Gemini at 18:50 IST on Tuesday 15 June, and the same crossing also falls between the two full moons that frame the north’s month. The Taurus ingress before it, at 12:14 IST on 15 May 2027, comes before either Jyeshtha has begun. The 2027 panchang table records no adhika month, and the engine’s 2027 calendar has no adhika closure. The Sun is in Taurus at the new moon that opens amanta Jyeshtha, which is the sign the naming scheme of the Amavasya 2027 list attaches to Jyeshtha.

Those two instants also bound a solar month. The site’s regional-calendar table describes the Tamil calendar as opening Vaikasi when the Sun enters Taurus, so Vaikasi runs from the 15 May ingress to the 15 June one. The civil day each solar calendar treats as its first, and whatever is kept on it, is for the regional almanac; this page stops at the instants.

Where the Four Lunations Fall

The edges come from the site’s DE421 lunation table. A civil day takes the tithi current at its sunrise, so each instant below is set beside the New Delhi morning it decides.

The May full moon arrives at 16:29 on Thursday 20 May, so Buddha Purnima’s own morning still belongs to Vaishakh and the north’s Jyeshtha starts the next day. The June new moon comes at 01:10, in the small hours of Saturday 5 June, more than four hours before sunrise, which makes that Saturday the amanta month’s first morning and leaves Shani Jayanti’s Friday as the last day of amanta Vaishakh. The June full moon is the close one: at 06:14 on 19 June it falls just 51 minutes after New Delhi’s sunrise, so that morning is still Purnima and is the north’s last Jyeshtha day. The July new moon, at 08:32 on 4 July, is well after that morning’s sunrise, so 4 July dawns on the Amavasya and closes the amanta month.

Across the 38 cities in the site’s panchang list, every one reads the edge mornings (21 May, 4 June, 5 June, 19 June, 20 June and 4 July) on the same tithi as New Delhi. The 19 June reading is the one with the least room. Where the Sun rises late, the Purnima is still running at sunrise but by less than half an hour in fifteen cities of the west and south, and in Kochi by only 9 minutes. The arithmetic gives every town the same last day; a local almanac working to its own sunrise may still treat that morning as a close call.

Two Doubled Tithis, Two Dropped Ones

Thirty sunrises do not mean thirty tithis, one apiece. In the north’s Jyeshtha the Krishna Saptami is current at sunrise on both 27 May and 28 May, and the Purnima on both 18 June and 19 June; those are the vriddhi tithis. Against them, the Krishna Chaturdashi and the Shukla Saptami are never current at a New Delhi sunrise, the kshaya tithis, and the count comes out even. The amanta month is plainer: its dark half, 20 June to 4 July, gives each tithi exactly one morning, so its only irregularities are the shared ones, the lost Saptami and the doubled Purnima.

None of these four tithis has a row in the festival table, so the instants that follow are the site’s lunar code, which agrees with the generated tables to within 1 minute across 86 festival rows. The Krishna Chaturdashi opens at 06:35 on Thursday 3 June, 72 minutes after sunrise, and gives way to the Amavasya at 04:05 on 4 June, before dawn; that Amavasya is the festival table’s Shani Jayanti day. In Guwahati the margin that morning is the slimmest of any listed city, 25 minutes between the Amavasya’s start and sunrise; everywhere else it is over half an hour.

The Shukla Saptami: east and west part ways

The bright-half drop is where the town decides the answer. The Shukla Saptami runs from 07:11 on Thursday 10 June to 05:14 on Friday 11 June, and New Delhi’s sunrise on 11 June comes 8 minutes after that end, so the site’s daily table reads 11 June as Shukla Ashtami and loses the Saptami. In towns further east the Sun is up before 05:14, as the table shows:

On the arithmetic, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati and Ranchi wake to the Saptami on 11 June. The Ashtami that follows ends at 03:45 on 12 June, before any listed city’s sunrise, so in those seven towns it is the Shukla Ashtami that goes missing, not the Saptami. The other 31 cities follow New Delhi.

The dividing line falls between Kanpur and Lucknow, and it is thin. Twelve cities, Delhi among them, have a sunrise within ten minutes of the Saptami’s end. Dehradun and Kanpur sit 1 minute on the Ashtami side, which is no wider than the lunar code’s own agreement figure, and Lucknow is 3 minutes on the Saptami side. Margins like these are below what this site will rule on. For a reader in any of those twelve towns, which of the two tithis drops this fortnight is the local almanac’s call; the panchang calculator shows the computed reading for a given town.

The Purnima that holds two mornings

The Purnima begins at 04:35 on Friday 18 June, 48 minutes before New Delhi’s sunrise, and lasts until the full moon at 06:14 on 19 June, so both mornings wake to it. The 18 June sunset falls inside the tithi; by the 19 June sunset it has been over for most of the day. The sunrise rule therefore does not pick a single day, and the festival table has no Jyeshtha Purnima row to settle it. Which morning or evening a household keeps for the Purnima vrat or bathing is the almanac’s decision; the Purnima 2027 list sets the sunrise and evening readings side by side. One city reads it differently: in Guwahati, sunrise on 18 June is at 04:30, 5 minutes before the Purnima begins, so that morning is still Shukla Chaturdashi there and the Purnima holds only 19 June.

The month’s name has the same nakshatra behind it. The naming scheme that the Purnima list follows pairs Jyeshtha with the nakshatra Jyeshtha, and the daily table has the Moon there at sunrise on 18 June; by the full-moon instant the lunation table has it in Moola, in Sagittarius.

Festivals and Ekadashis, Fortnight by Fortnight

The timeline puts the dated events in order. Clock times appear only for instants the site’s tables carry, and two slow-moving planets are given a day without a time. The right-hand columns name the month each calendar assigns to that date’s New Delhi sunrise.

The north’s dark half. Its one Ekadashi is Tuesday 1 June. The Ekadashi 2027 list, which names months the amanta way, calls it Apara and files it under Vaishakh; a purnimanta almanac counts the same fast as Jyeshtha Krishna Ekadashi. The fortnight closes with Shani Jayanti on Friday 4 June, the Amavasya at sunrise. The site’s festival rules file it as Vaishakha’s dark-half fifteenth because they count amanta, so in the north the same day is Jyeshtha Amavasya. The festival table has no Vat Savitri row, so this page gives Vat Savitri no date.

The shared bright half. The festival rules put Ganga Dussehra on Jyeshtha’s bright-half tenth and Nirjala Ekadashi on the eleventh, both read at sunrise, and the 2027 table dates them to consecutive mornings, Sunday 13 June and Monday 14 June. Nirjala is the bright-half Ekadashi itself, so this fortnight has no second Shukla Ekadashi to keep. Both days are Jyeshtha in every almanac: they sit inside the fortnight the two reckonings share. The Sun moves into Gemini at 18:50 the day after Nirjala, and the fortnight ends on the doubled Purnima described above.

The amanta dark half. Only amanta readers are still in Jyeshtha after 19 June. Their dark-half Ekadashi, on Wednesday 30 June, is the one the Ekadashi list names Yogini; north Indian calendars put it in Ashadha. The month then closes on the Amavasya of Sunday 4 July. The May, June and July 2027 vrat and festival lists carry the smaller observances, Pradosh and Sankashti among them, that this page leaves out.

Saturn and Jupiter Change Sign

Two slow planets cross into new signs during the year’s Jyeshtha. Saturn enters sidereal Aries on Thursday 3 June, the day before Shani Jayanti, inside the north’s Jyeshtha and the last days of amanta Vaishakh. It moves under a tenth of a degree a day, so the site gives the day and not a time; the Saturn transit 2027 page follows the move and its later retrograde return to Pisces. Jupiter re-enters Leo on Saturday 26 June, after the north’s month has ended and while amanta Jyeshtha is still running; the Jupiter 2027 dates page has the rest of its year. Neither sign change is a festival, and the two falling near Jyeshtha is a matter of the calendar, not a reading.

Jyeshtha Weddings in the Muhurat Engine

With no adhika month and no Kharmas, the engine’s 2027 marriage calendar applies no closure to any day of either version of Jyeshtha. Its Chaturmas closure begins on 14 July, in Ashadha; the Chaturmas 2027 page covers it and the other closure that overlaps it, whose edges this page does not print. Inside the month, the engine’s verdict on each day comes down to the five limbs at sunrise: tithi, weekday, nakshatra, yoga and karana.

The north’s Jyeshtha has no cleared day at all. The amanta month has one, Monday 21 June, with the Moon in Uttara Ashadha at sunrise; it comes after 19 June, so a north Indian calendar files it under Ashadha. Of the twelve distinct days that miss by a single limb, five lie in the shared fortnight; the failing limb is the tithi on four, the nakshatra on four, the weekday on two, and the karana and the yoga on one each. The engine gives the festival days no special treatment. It rejects Ganga Dussehra’s Sunday on two limbs, the weekday and the yoga (Vyatipata), and Nirjala Ekadashi’s Monday on its nakshatra, Chitra, alone.

These are the engine’s verdicts, not muhurats. A cleared day is a candidate only; the engine’s marriage note says the pheras still need a lagna window calculated from both charts, and the engine does not compute one. Its day-by-day reasons are on the May, June and July 2027 marriage pages.

Related Pages

This page dates the edges of Jyeshtha, its sunrises and its irregular tithis, and reports the engine’s counts. It does not read a chart, pick a wedding date, or say what the month’s fasts accomplish. The whole year is on the 2027 festival calendar. The Kharmas 2027 and Chaturmas 2027 pages cover the closures before and after this open stretch, and each dated festival has its own page under festivals.