Masik Durgashtami 2027 List: 12 Dates and Two Close Sunrises

Masik Durgashtami is the eighth lunar day of the waxing fortnight, kept for Durga in every month. Two of them are the Ashtamis of the spring and autumn Navratris; the rest are the monthly round. 2027 has twelve, one per lunation, and the list opens with the last of 2026: Thursday, 17 December 2026, in Margashirsha.

Read at Sunrise (मासिक दुर्गाष्टमी)

The site’s generated tables fix the annual Durga Ashtami by the tithi current at sunrise, and the same test is applied here to every Shukla Ashtami: the day whose dawn falls inside the tithi takes the vrat, and when two consecutive dawns do, the first one does, as the table’s own generator rules. Sunrises are the New Delhi figures of the daily panchang. The start and end of each Ashtami come from the site’s lunar code, which agrees with the DE421 festival rows to within one minute at the 86 instants they print, and whose verdict matches the daily table at every sunrise used below.

A sunrise test is settled or not by how far the dawn sits from the tithi’s edges. For ten of the twelve days of 2027 the answer is at least two hours, which no difference in local sunrise across India can undo. The other two are minutes from an edge, and the page sets them out city by city rather than letting one New Delhi figure stand for the country.

Every Durgashtami of 2027

Waxing-fortnight months have one name in both the amanta and the purnimanta calendars, so the month column needs no second version. Each name is taken from the festival rows that fall in the same lunation, and 2027 has no adhika month. Weekday by weekday, the twelve fall two on Sundays, two on Mondays, one on a Tuesday, two on Wednesdays, two on Thursdays, one on a Friday and two on Saturdays.

June: An Ashtami That Misses Dawn in the East

The Jyeshtha Ashtami opens at 05:14 on 11 June, and New Delhi’s sun rises at 05:22, 8 minutes later. That is enough for the daily table to print Shukla Ashtami for Friday 11 June. The tithi is gone by 03:45 on 12 June, well before the next dawn, so in New Delhi there is only the one candidate and the date is 11 June.

Eight minutes is thin, and across the site’s 38 panchang cities the picture splits three ways. In the west and south the dawn is safely inside the tithi: Mumbai’s 06:00 sunrise is 46 minutes in. In twelve cities, from Jammu to Visakhapatnam and New Delhi among them, sunrise and the start of the Ashtami are within 10 minutes of each other, close enough that a printed panchang using a slightly different sunrise could read it either way. And in Kolkata (04:51), Patna (04:57), Guwahati (04:30) and Ranchi (05:01) the sun is up well before 05:14, so the Ashtami begins after one sunrise and ends before the next and holds none. Calendars there show it as kshaya, dropped from the sunrise count, and place the vrat by conventions this page does not try to settle.

What holds everywhere is the other end: no city on the list still has the Ashtami at the dawn of 12 June, so that morning is not a candidate anywhere.

October: Durga Ashtami and a Second Dawn

The Ashwina Ashtami is the Durga Ashtami of Sharad Navratri. It opens at 04:13 on 7 October, before dawn everywhere on the list, and lasts until 06:27 on 8 October, so in New Delhi it also covers the 06:17 sunrise of Friday 8 October, by 10 minutes. The table’s generator takes the first of two such days and prints Thursday 7 October, which is the date in the list.

Whether a city sees two Ashtami dawns at all depends on how early its sun comes up. 23 of the 38 cities clearly do, with the tithi still running at least 10 minutes after their sunrise on the 8th, most widely Guwahati, where the margin is 69 minutes after its 05:18 sunrise. In the other 15, from Goa and Mumbai up to Amritsar and Jammu, the Ashtami ends within 10 minutes of sunrise; Mumbai’s comes 3 minutes after it. Neither case changes the first day, which every city meets inside the Ashtami by more than an hour. The Navratri 2027 page takes up what the double Ashtami means for Sandhi Puja and Maha Navami.

The Ashtamis That Carry Other Names

Chaitra. Wednesday 14 April is the Ashtami of the spring Navratri; the table’s Ram Navami row is the next day, Thursday 15 April.

Magha, Bhadrapada and Kartika. The same lunar day is Bhishma Ashtami in Magha (14 February), Radha Ashtami in Bhadrapada (8 September) and Gopashtami in Kartika (6 November). Those observances have their own customs, and some calendars fix them by another part of the day; the dates here are the sunrise days only, and none of the three sits near an edge. The Kartika day is worked through for 2026 on the Gopashtami 2026 page.

Keeping the Day

The vrat books set out a day’s fast with Durga worshipped in the morning, the reading of the Durga Saptashati where a household keeps it, and the fast broken after the puja; customs on what the fast allows differ by family and region.

Related Pages

The Shukla Ashtami page lists every sunrise the tithi has held in the tables. The year’s other monthly observances are on the Vinayaka Chaturthi, Ekadashi and Purnima lists for 2027, the year as a whole is in the 2027 festival calendar, and your own city’s sunrise tithi is on the panchang calculator. In Hindi: मासिक दुर्गाष्टमी 2027 सूची: 12 तारीखें, दो सूर्योदय सीमा पर.