Masik Shivratri 2027 List, With the Last Two of 2026

Between now and the end of 2027 there are fifteen Masik Shivratri nights: two left in 2026, on Saturday 7 November and Monday 7 December, and thirteen in 2027, from Tuesday 5 January to Saturday 25 December. Each one is the night of a Krishna Chaturdashi, the fourteenth day of the waning moon, and each has been picked by the same test that sets this site’s Maha Shivratri date. The list is below; after it come the nights that need more than a date.

What Decides the Night (मासिक शिवरात्रि)

Vrat manuals put the heart of the Shivratri observance in the night: worship of Shiva in the nishita hour around midnight, often after a day’s fast, with some households keeping a vigil through to dawn. Because the worship is a midnight act, the question to ask of the calendar is not which tithi a morning wakes in, as it is for an Ekadashi, but which tithi is running at midnight.

The generator behind the site’s festival tables answers it in a fixed way. For Maha Shivratri it tests the tithi at 23:58 IST on each candidate day in New Delhi, and if the Chaturdashi is running at that moment on two consecutive days, the first of them wins. This page applies exactly that rule to every waning fortnight. As a check that it is the same rule and not a near relative, the scan has to land on the generator’s own Maha Shivratri dates for 2026 and 2027 (15 February and 6 March) before the page will build at all, and it does.

Every Masik Shivratri to the End of 2027

Three of the spans are copied from the generated DE421 festival rows, which the table marks. The others come from the site’s own Moon-and-Sun routine: it has been run against the start and end of the tithi in each of the 86 festival rows that give both, and its worst miss on any of them is 1 minute. Apart from the last night of 2027, every night on the list holds the Chaturdashi at 23:58, and the midnights either side of it fall outside the tithi, with at least 44 minutes to spare in each case; no date there turns on an error of that size. The times are IST for New Delhi; the tithi changes at the same instant everywhere, but a printed almanac for another city may test a different midnight. For your own town’s figures, use the panchang calculator.

Why 2027 Has Thirteen

A lunar month is about twenty-nine and a half days, so twelve of them come to some eleven days less than a calendar year. When the first Krishna Chaturdashi of a year falls in its opening week, as 5 January does, a thirteenth fits in before the year closes: here it is 25 December. The table’s month column shows the consequence. Both the first and the last night of 2027 belong to amanta Margashirsha: twelve lunations separate them, and with no month added in between, twelve lunations bring the same month name round again. There is no added (adhika) month anywhere in 2027 in the site’s closures data to complicate the count, and the Adhika Jyeshtha of 2026 was over long before the first night listed here.

The month names are counted from the Maha Shivratri row, which the festival rules file as Magha krishna in the amanta system, and the count is checked against twelve other waning-fortnight festival rows in the two years’ tables, Janmashtami and the Diwali group among them. The purnimanta name, the one north Indian almanacs print, is always one month ahead for a waning fortnight, so the 2027 Maha Shivratri is Phalguna in those almanacs and Magha in Gujarati, Marathi and Kannada ones.

The Choti Diwali Night, and Diwali Week a Year Later

The first of the two nights left in 2026 is Saturday 7 November, and its Chaturdashi is the very one the festival table uses for Narak Chaturdashi. That row is decided by a different test, the tithi at sunset, but this time the two tests agree: the Chaturdashi begins at 10:48 on 7 November and is still running hours after that evening’s sunset and through midnight. So Choti Diwali night is also the Masik Shivratri of amanta Ashwina, with Diwali on Sunday 8 November. The other 2026 night, Monday 7 December, has a Chaturdashi that starts at 02:22 on 7 December, in the small hours, so it holds that day’s sunrise, its evening and the midnight that closes it.

In 2027 the same two observances pull apart. The Chaturdashi of Diwali week begins at 22:50 on 27 October, the instant the Dhanteras row’s tithi ends. That is more than five hours after sunset, too late for the sunset test that day, but 68 minutes before 23:58, in good time for the midnight test. On the next evening the order is reversed: the Chaturdashi covers the whole pradosh window and ends at 20:48 on 28 October, more than three hours before the midnight test. A sunset rule therefore puts Narak Chaturdashi on Thursday 28 October, and a midnight rule puts the Masik Shivratri on Wednesday 27 October, the Dhanteras date. One tithi, two rules, two dates, and neither of them is a mistake.

Sawan Shivratri

The first Chaturdashi after Guru Purnima, the Ashadha Purnima that the 2027 table places on Sunday 18 July, opens at 22:58 on 31 July, 60 minutes ahead of the midnight test, so its night is Saturday 31 July. In an amanta calendar this fortnight is still Ashadha. In the purnimanta reckoning used across the north it is the waning half of Shravana, Sawan, and the night is the one Hindi-belt almanacs list as Sawan Shivratri.

Nights That Share a Date With Pradosh Vrat

Pradosh Vrat, the other fortnightly observance kept for Shiva, falls on the Trayodashi that comes just before the Chaturdashi, tested at sunset. Usually that puts it the day before the Shivratri. For four of the nights above, the Trayodashi starts too late for the previous sunset and lasts through the whole evening window (sunset plus 144 minutes, the span the festival rows print as pradosh), so the Pradosh and the Shivratri land on the same date: Tuesday 5 January, Saturday 31 July, Wednesday 27 October, Saturday 25 December. The plainest is the first. On 5 January the Trayodashi holds that evening and the Chaturdashi takes over at 20:40, 38 minutes after the pradosh window ends, so the evening puja and the midnight one fall in different tithis on the same date. The Pradosh dates themselves, including the months where they part from this list, are on the Pradosh Vrat 2027 list and the Pradosh Vrat dates for the rest of 2026.

Three of the nights fall on a Monday: 7 December 2026, 5 April 2027, 30 August 2027. A Monday is Shiva’s weekday in the vrat calendar, and the weekly fast is covered in the Somvar vrat page; nothing about the tithi changes because of the weekday.

The Last Night of 2027: Two Candidates

The final Chaturdashi of the list runs from 23:32 on 25 December to 00:23 on 27 December. It is a long tithi, and it holds 23:58 on two nights: on the 25th by 26 minutes, having started just before, and on the 26th by 25 minutes, ending just after. The site’s first-night convention gives Saturday 25 December, and that is the date in the table. With under half an hour on either side, though, a calendar that times nishita from local sunset and sunrise, or for a city east or west of New Delhi, can test a moment that changes the answer, so both nights are shown here: Saturday 25 December and Sunday 26 December. Which of them a household keeps is a question for its own almanac; this page goes no further than the convention.

Maha Shivratri Among the Thirteen

One of the 2027 nights is not a monthly Shivratri in the ordinary sense: Saturday 6 March is Maha Shivratri, the Magha Chaturdashi of the amanta reckoning and the Phalguna one of the purnimanta. Its date, the nishita rule behind it and the order of the night’s worship are set out in Maha Shivratri 2027: puja vidhi and nishita kaal. For how Krishna Chaturdashi has fallen at sunrise across the table’s two years, see the Krishna Chaturdashi tithi page. The rest of the 2027 observances are collected in the 2027 festival calendar, and every computed festival date is on the festivals hub. In Hindi: मासिक शिवरात्रि 2027 लिस्ट: नवम्बर-दिसम्बर 2026 के साथ.