Kamika Ekadashi 2027: 29 or 30 July, and Which Parana

Kamika Ekadashi 2027 Kab Hai? (कामिका एकादशी)

There are two answers in print, and this page gives both: Thursday, 29 July 2027, or Friday, 30 July 2027. The reason is that this year’s Kamika is a kshaya Ekadashi. At New Delhi the tithi begins after one sunrise and is finished before the next, so the usual test, whose dawn falls inside it, finds no day at all, and each almanac has to fall back on a rule of its own. Which rule your family follows is a question for the panchang you already use; the sections below set out what each of the two days has going for it, and what follows for breaking the fast.

A Tithi Shorter Than One Sunrise-to-Sunrise Day

The Krishna Ekadashi opens at 07:34 on Thursday 29 July and closes at 05:13 on Friday 30 July. These instants are not festival-table rows. They come from the site’s lunar code, which has been compared with the DE421-based tables at 86 tithi boundaries and is never more than 1 minute away from them.

At New Delhi, Thursday’s sun is up at 05:40, while Dashami is still current, and the Ekadashi arrives less than two hours later. It then has the rest of the day and the whole night. It runs out at 05:13, and the Friday sunrise follows at 05:41, 28 minutes after it. That is under the half-hour margin this site uses before letting a computed instant decide anything, so for New Delhi the call is taken from the daily panchang table, which reads the tithi at each sunrise straight off the ephemeris: Krishna Dashami on the 29th, Krishna Dwadashi on the 30th. On that reading no New Delhi dawn belongs to the Ekadashi.

The Friday Dawn in Thirty-eight Cities

Because the tithi ends so near the Friday sunrise, a few minutes of local sunrise make a difference. Each city below has its own sunrise for 30 July from the solar routine behind the city panchang pages, set against the Ekadashi’s 05:13 close. Where the gap is 30 minutes or more, the dawn is plainly Dwadashi and the Ekadashi is lost there too. Where it is less, the row says so and this page draws nothing from it.

In twenty-two cities the margin is comfortable, though never large: even the widest, Goa, is 63 minutes. In fourteen more, New Delhi among them, the Ekadashi is computed to end first by under half an hour. In Kolkata and Guwahati the order flips: the Sun rises before 05:13, by 6 minutes and 26 minutes, so on the bare computation those two cities would have one Ekadashi sunrise, on Friday. Both margins are too small to rest a date on, and this page does not try. No city on the list gets an Ekadashi dawn by a clear margin.

Only New Delhi is worked out by the panchang tool; to check the 30th’s sunrise and sunset in any city of the table, open that city among the city panchang pages.

Thursday: The Day the Ekadashi Fills

The case for Thursday 29 July is simple. It is the only civil day on which the Ekadashi is current at all, and it is current for most of that day’s light, from 07:34 until sunset at 19:14 and on through the night. Calendars that put a lost tithi on the day it occupies land here, and the July 2027 vrat list files Kamika under this date while flagging the other. In every city on the list the tithi starts at least an hour after the local sunrise (79 minutes at the least), so this morning is Dashami everywhere, not just in New Delhi.

For a household fasting on Thursday, the evening before is Wednesday 28 July, and the single Dashami meal that the vrat manuals ask for falls on an ordinary Dashami evening. The first stretch of the Thursday morning, up to 07:34, is still Dashami as well; the fast is kept from sunrise regardless.

Friday: The Dawn Without Dashami

The case for Friday 30 July starts from the pre-dawn test. Vaishnava calendars that follow the Hari Bhakti Vilasa look at arunodaya, roughly 96 minutes before sunrise, and will not fast on an Ekadashi whose arunodaya still has Dashami in it. Thursday fails that test outright, since Dashami lasts past sunrise itself. Friday passes it: at its arunodaya the Ekadashi is still running, by 68 minutes at New Delhi and by 33 minutes or more in every city on the list, and Dashami ended the morning before. By sunrise the tithi has changed to Dwadashi, so this is a fast kept on a Dwadashi day.

Parana: What Each Choice Leaves (पारण)

After a Thursday fast. Dwadashi begins at 05:13 on the 30th and does not end until 02:18 on the 31st, by the same computation, so all of Friday’s daylight is Dwadashi and the rule of breaking the fast while Dwadashi is current is easy to meet. The constraint sits at the other end. Panchangs that print a parana window keep it clear of Hari Vasara, the first quarter of Dwadashi, and this time Hari Vasara runs well into the Friday morning, ending more than four hours after the 05:41 sunrise at New Delhi. A calendar that keeps Thursday and follows that practice will open its Friday parana after Hari Vasara, not at sunrise. This page does not print a window itself.

After a Friday fast. Here the usual rule cannot be met. Dwadashi is over at 02:18 in the small hours of Saturday 31 July, and Saturday’s sunrise at New Delhi (05:41) is already Krishna Trayodashi; in every city on the list the Dwadashi is gone at least two hours before the Sun is up. There is no Dwadashi morning left to break the fast in. Calendars that place Kamika on Friday publish their own instruction for the Saturday parana, and this page does not supply a rule or a time for it; take it from the calendar that set the fast.

Whichever day is kept, anyone with a medical condition, anyone pregnant and anyone on regular medication should ask a doctor before fasting.

Ashadha or Shravana, and the First Ekadashi of Chaturmas

The site’s festival rules place Devshayani Ekadashi (Wednesday 14 July) and Guru Purnima (Sunday 18 July) in the bright half of Ashadha, both inside the lunation that opens with the new moon of 4 July. Kamika comes in the dark half that follows the 21:14 full moon of 18 July and before the new moon of 2 August. A calendar counting new moon to new moon is still in Ashadha at that point, so in amanta almanacs this is Ashadha Krishna Ekadashi. A calendar counting full moon to full moon begins Shravana at the 18 July full moon, and the fortnight of Hariyali Teej (4 August) and Nag Panchami (6 August), which the rules file as Shravana shukla, is the second half of that same month; so in the north Kamika is the Shravana Krishna Ekadashi, the first Ekadashi of Sawan, as the Sawan 2027 page lays out.

The daily table has no Ekadashi sunrise between Devshayani and the 29th, so Kamika is the first Ekadashi after Chaturmas opens. The Chaturmas 2027 page follows the four months and the Ekadashis inside them.

The Katha and the Tulsi Offering

The vrat-katha books that print a story for this Ekadashi set it in the Brahmavaivarta Purana and frame it as a conversation inside a conversation. Yudhishthira asks Krishna about the Ekadashi of Shravana’s dark half, naming the month as the north does, and Krishna answers by passing on what Brahma once told Narada about it. Much of that telling is about worshipping Vishnu on the day and offering him tulsi leaves, and it lists rewards for doing so. The page leaves those rewards in the books and makes no claim about what keeping the fast or the tulsi offering does. The general conduct rules for the day, including the custom of not picking tulsi on an Ekadashi, are collected on the Ekadashi vrat rules page.

Quick Reference

• Krishna Ekadashi (computed): 07:34 on Thursday 29 July to 05:13 on Friday 30 July; no New Delhi sunrise inside it
• Candidate days: Thursday 29 July 2027 (the day the tithi runs) or Friday 30 July 2027 (the first dawn free of Dashami); your calendar decides
• Krishna Dwadashi (computed): 05:13 on 30 July to 02:18 on 31 July
• Parana after a Thursday fast: Friday 30 July, after Hari Vasara, within Dwadashi
• Parana after a Friday fast: Saturday 31 July dawns on Krishna Trayodashi; follow the calendar that set the fast
• Sunrise at New Delhi: 05:40 on 29 July (nakshatra Rohini), 05:41 on 30 July (nakshatra Mrigashira)
• Month: amanta Ashadha Krishna, purnimanta Shravana Krishna

The year’s other lost, doubled and Dashami-touched Ekadashis are set side by side in the Ekadashi 2027 list. The Guru Purnima 2027 page covers the full moon that opens this fortnight, and the 2027 festival calendar and the festival pages carry the rest of the year. In Hindi: कामिका एकादशी 2027: 29 या 30 जुलाई, और कौन-सा पारण.