Magh Month 2027: Start and End Date in Both Calendars

Two Calendars, Two Magh Months (माघ मास)

Ask when Magh 2027 begins and the honest answer depends on which calendar is on the wall. A north Indian almanac counts the month from full moon to full moon, so its Magh follows Paush Purnima: it opens on Saturday 23 January 2027 and its last morning is Saturday 20 February 2027, 29 sunrises at New Delhi. Calendars in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and the Telugu states count from new moon to new moon, and their Magh runs from Sunday 7 February 2027 to Monday 8 March 2027, 30 sunrises.

The two overlap for exactly 14 days, 7 February to 20 February, which is the bright fortnight. Each month also has a dark fortnight the other calls by a different name. The north’s dark half of Magh, 23 January to 6 February, is still Paush to an amanta reader; the amanta month’s dark half, 21 February to 8 March, is already Phalgun in the north. The site’s festival rules record the convention directly: north Indian sources name krishna-paksha festivals by the purnimanta month, one month ahead. This page continues from the Paush month page, which ends where this one starts.

The Four Instants and the Mornings They Give

Every boundary below is a row in the site’s DE421 lunation table. A panchang names each civil day by the tithi current at sunrise, so the third column gives the first or last New Delhi sunrise that the month holds.

Three of the four are straightforward. The January full moon comes at 17:47 on 22 January, hours after that day’s sunrise, so Paush Purnima keeps its own day and 23 January dawns, more than 13 hours after the full moon, on the Krishna Pratipada. The February new moon falls after dark on 6 February, and the March one at 14:59 on 8 March, more than 8 hours after sunrise, so that Monday is the amanta month’s Amavasya and its last day.

The fourth is the unusual one. The Purnima that closes the north’s Magh opens at 08:00 on 20 February, 65 minutes after sunrise, and the full moon ends it at 04:53 on 21 February, more than 2 hours before the next sunrise. No morning holds it. The daily table heads 20 February Shukla Chaturdashi and 21 February Krishna Pratipada, which makes 20 February the last sunrise of Magh and 21 February the first of Phalgun. The Purnima’s opening minute is from the site’s lunar code rather than a table row; that code agrees with the generated tables to within 1 minute across 86 tithi instants. The Magh Purnima 2027 page explains why Saturday 20 February is the day the Purnima is listed against, and this page follows it.

Sunrise moves with longitude, so a boundary morning can read differently in another town. For these five mornings (23 January, 7 February, 20 February, 21 February, 8 March) it does not: the site’s sunrise code puts every one of the 38 cities in its panchang list on the same tithi as New Delhi. Your own town is on the panchang calculator.

The Dark Fortnight Each Calendar Calls Magh

The north’s Magh opens with the waning Moon. The festival table puts Sakat Chauth on Monday 25 January; its Krishna Chaturthi opens after that day’s sunrise and closes before the next one, so no New Delhi morning carries it, and the January 2027 list gives the moonrise reading the fast is kept by. The festival rules file it under Pausha because they use amanta names. A week later the Krishna Dashami holds two sunrises, Sunday 31 January and Monday 1 February, and the Ekadashi after it holds one, which puts Shattila Ekadashi on Tuesday 2 February. The fortnight ends with Mauni Amavasya on Saturday 6 February, whose evening brings the new moon that opens the amanta month. For amanta almanacs that day closes Paush, which is why they print it as Paush Amavasya.

The amanta month’s dark half comes after the full moon of 21 February. Here it is the Krishna Ekadashi that holds two sunrises, Wednesday 3 March and Thursday 4 March, so the daily table offers two candidate mornings for that Ekadashi. This page does not choose between them; which one a household fasts on is for its own almanac to settle. Then comes Maha Shivratri on Saturday 6 March, dated by the festival table at nishita, the middle of the night, not at sunrise. The festival rules file it as the fourteenth of Magha’s dark half, an amanta name; a north Indian almanac files the same night under Phalgun.

Magh Gupt Navratri: Nine Mornings, One Tithi Each

The Shakta tradition keeps two less public Navratris besides the spring and autumn ones, one in Ashadha and one in Magha, and calls them gupt, “hidden”; practice centres on initiated worshippers, and the Navratri 2027 page notes that the festival table holds no row for either. What the daily table can give is the span the name refers to, Shukla Pratipada to Shukla Navami of Magha, and in 2027 it is unusually tidy: each of the nine tithis holds exactly one New Delhi sunrise, on nine consecutive days, with none skipped and none doubled.

The Navami runs on until 22:44 on 15 February, after sunset, so 15 February is the ninth day by either reading. The run takes in two festival-table days: Vasant Panchami on Thursday 11 February, the fifth morning, and Ratha Saptami on Saturday 13 February, the seventh. These are sunrise dates, not a ghatasthapana time; this page does not set one, and families who keep the observance take that from their own priest or almanac.

The Sun Changes Sign Inside Both Months

The solar months run on their own clock. The Sun enters sidereal Capricorn at 21:05 IST on 14 January 2027, before either Magh begins; the Dhanu Kharmas row in the site’s table ends that day, 9 days before the north’s Magh opens. When Makar Sankranti is kept is a separate question that this page leaves alone. The next crossing, into Aquarius, comes at 10:04 IST on Saturday 13 February, in the bright fortnight both calendars share. Neither version of Magh, then, belongs to one solar sign:

• North Indian Magh: 22 sunrises with the Sun in Capricorn (23 January to 13 February), then 7 in Aquarius.
• Amanta Magh: 7 sunrises in Capricorn (7 February to 13 February), then 23 in Aquarius.

The ingress date is also Ratha Saptami’s. The crossing comes more than 3 hours after New Delhi’s 07:01 sunrise, so the festival morning itself still has the Sun in Capricorn; the coincidence is of date, and the page does not use it to settle the day of Kumbha Sankranti. The amanta month contains this one solar ingress and no other. The site’s panchang data treats a lunation with no ingress inside it as adhika, an extra month, and its 2027 table records none. At the far end, Meena Kharmas begins on 15 March, 7 days after the amanta month closes, so no Kharmas day falls in either Magh.

The month’s name has a lunar origin of its own. In the classical naming scheme a month is called after the nakshatra the full Moon stands in, and the lunation table puts the 21 February full moon in Magha itself, in Leo.

What the Muhurat Engine Says About Weddings in Magh

Kharmas is over before Magh starts, and the site’s muhurat engine has a marriage verdict for each day of the month. No closed period in the engine touches either Magh: both sit inside its open stretch of 15 January to 13 March. Every day it rejects is rejected on the five limbs of the panchang alone, tithi, weekday, nakshatra, yoga and karana. The counts below are days failing each limb, and a day can fail more than one.

The nakshatra is the limb that removes most days, because the engine’s marriage rule accepts only ten of the twenty-seven. In the north’s Magh it clears one day, Thursday 11 February: a Shukla Panchami with the Moon in Revati at sunrise. That is Vasant Panchami’s date, but the engine does not know it: it reads the limbs, not the festival list. The amanta month adds Thursday 4 March, the second of the two Ekadashi mornings, in Uttara Ashadha. A further 8 days in the north’s Magh, and 7 in the amanta month, fail on exactly one limb; the engine lists them as near misses and does not clear them.

None of this is a recommendation. A day that clears the filter is a shortlist entry; the engine’s own note says the pheras still need a lagna window worked from both charts, which it does not compute. Every day’s reasons are on the January, February and March 2027 marriage pages, and the Kharmas 2027 page covers the closed weeks on either side.

Prayagraj, and What This Page Leaves Out

Prayagraj custom keeps the north Indian month, Paush Purnima to Magh Purnima, as the season of the Magh Mela at the Sangam; its bathing days are on the Magh Mela 2027 snan dates page and are not repeated here. This page gives the month’s edges, the sunrises inside it and the engine’s counts. It does not read anyone’s chart, choose a wedding date, or say what the month will bring. The other observances are listed day by day in the February 2027 list, and the whole year in the 2027 festival calendar. In Hindi: माघ मास 2027 कब से कब तक: दोनों पंचांगों में आरंभ और अंत.