Kajari Teej 2027: Friday 20 August (Kajli, Badi Teej)

Kajari Teej (कजरी तीज), also called Kajli Teej, Badi Teej and Satudi Teej, falls on Friday 20 August in 2027 if it is dated by the tithi at sunrise. It is the Krishna Tritiya, the third day of the dark fortnight, that comes three days after Raksha Bandhan. Every city tested below has that Tritiya at its sunrise on 20 August. The evening is less tidy: the Tritiya ends within a few minutes of sunset on 20 August, and that night the Moon rises after it has gone.

Which Month, and Which Tritiya

Raksha Bandhan, Tuesday 17 August, is the Shravana full moon. North Indian calendars, which count each month from one full moon to the next, open Bhadrapada with the dark fortnight that starts after it, so Kajari Teej is Bhadrapada Krishna Tritiya there. Calendars that close the month at the new moon still call the same fortnight Shravana. The tithi does not change between the two systems, only the name of the month around it. Both month boundaries are laid out on the Bhadrapada month 2027 page, and the Sawan 2027 page covers the month that ends at that full moon.

The Tritiya, Opening to Close

The site’s festival table has no Kajari Teej row, so the span comes from its tithi code. Each build tests that code against the opening and closing instants of 86 rows in the table, and none of them differs from it by more than 1 min.

• Krishna Tritiya opens: 17:16 on Thursday 19 August
• Krishna Tritiya closes: 18:54 on Friday 20 August

In New Delhi, the 19 August sunrise (05:52) is still in the Dwitiya, and the Tritiya takes over that afternoon, a little over an hour and a half before the 18:57 sunset. The next sunrise, 05:52 on 20 August, is the only one the Tritiya holds, which is what makes Friday the sunrise date. By the 05:53 sunrise of 21 August the Chaturthi is current.

Twelve Cities at Sunrise and Sunset

The cities below cover the states where the festival is most widely kept: Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and its neighbour Jharkhand. A tithi ends at one instant for the whole country, while sunset on 20 August comes 53 min later in Jodhpur than in Ranchi. Each city’s sunrise and sunset come from the solar function behind the city panchang pages, and the last column compares that sunset with the Tritiya’s 18:54 close.

The mornings agree everywhere: Dwitiya on 19 August, Tritiya on 20 August, Chaturthi on 21 August, and even at the latest sunrise on the list the Tritiya has more than twelve hours left. The evening of 19 August also agrees, because the Tritiya is already running at every listed sunset that day, by more than an hour.

The evening of 20 August is where the cities part. The sun sets while the Tritiya is still current, with at least 10 min to spare, in Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Patna and Ranchi; Ranchi has the widest margin, 37 min. It sets at least 10 min after the Tritiya has ended in Jodhpur and Udaipur. The remaining five sit too near the line to call: by these figures the sunset in Delhi and Jaipur comes just after the close, in Agra and Bhopal just before it, and in Indore on the same clock minute. Almanacs define sunset slightly differently, and the tithi code itself carries a disagreement of up to one minute, so a printed panchang for any of those five towns could fall on either side. This is a description of the sky on that evening, not a ruling on which day to keep.

Moonrise on Both Nights

In many households the fast is broken at night, after water is offered to the Moon. The site carries committed moonrise times for these two nights because they sit beside the Bhadrapada Sankashti Chaturthi, and the Sankashti Chaturthi 2027 list carries moonrise for the days around each one. Those times are for the centre of the Moon’s disc; almanacs that use its upper edge print a minute or two earlier.

On 19 August the Moon comes up well inside the Tritiya in all four cities. On 20 August it comes up after 18:54, when the Chaturthi has begun. So a family keeping the sunrise date offers to a Moon that rises in the next tithi. That is simply how the 2027 calendar falls, and the page draws no date from it. Families that time the fast by moonrise should go by their own almanac or ask their family priest.

The Three Teejs of 2027

• Hariyali Teej: Wednesday 4 August, Shravana Shukla Tritiya
• Kajari Teej: Friday 20 August, the dark-fortnight Tritiya, sixteen days later
• Hartalika Teej: Friday 3 September, Bhadrapada Shukla Tritiya, fourteen days after Kajari Teej

In Rajasthani usage the Shravana festival is the small Teej and this one the big Teej, which is where the name Badi Teej comes from. The first and last of the three fall in the bright fortnight; Kajari Teej is the only one of them on a waning Moon. Rajasthan’s spring Tritiya festival, Gangaur, has a page of its own. The Raksha Bandhan 2027 page has the full moon that separates the first two.

How the Day Is Kept

The name Kajari is shared with the kajari, a rain-season folk song of the Mirzapur and Varanasi country in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and in that region’s custom women gather to sing kajari songs for the festival. Rajasthani households call it Satudi Teej after sattu, the roasted-grain flour that is made into sweets for the day and shared out after the puja. The day is kept in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar as well, with details that vary from family to family.

The vrat is mostly kept by women. In the custom’s own account, married women keep it for their husbands’ well-being and unmarried girls for a good marriage. This page reports that account and makes no claim about what keeping the fast does. Households differ on whether water is taken during the day; anyone with a medical condition, or who is pregnant, should ask their doctor before fasting without water.

Kajari Teej 2027 at a Glance

• Kajari Teej (sunrise tithi): Friday 20 August, in every city tested
• Krishna Tritiya: 17:16 on 19 August to 18:54 on 20 August
• Sunrise and sunset on 20 August (New Delhi): 05:52 and 18:56
• Moonrise (New Delhi): 19:55 on 19 August, 20:23 on 20 August
• Month: Bhadrapada Krishna in the north Indian count, Shravana Krishna where months end at the new moon

August 2027’s other fasts and festivals are listed on the August 2027 vrat and tyohar list. The panchang tool gives sunrise and sunset for a town not in the table above, and the festival hub collects the dated festival pages. In Hindi: कजरी तीज 2027: शुक्रवार 20 अगस्त (कजली, बड़ी तीज).