October 2027 Festival List: Navratri to Diwali, Every Vrat

October 2027 carries 10 rows of the site’s festival table, more than any other month of 2027. It opens on the second day of Sharad Navratri and closes on Bhai Dooj, and in between come Durga Ashtami, Maha Navami and Dussehra, Sharad Purnima, Karva Chauth, and the five days from Dhanteras to Bhai Dooj, which this year all fall inside the month. With the monthly fasts added there are 19 entries. Three things make the month harder to read than its wall calendar suggests: the Ashtami of Navratri holds two sunrises, Sharad Purnima and the sunrise Purnima land on different days, and the Chaturthi of Karva Chauth is over before that evening’s moon comes up.

October 2027 Festival and Vrat Dates (व्रत त्योहार)

The table is worked for New Delhi. Its festival rows come straight from the site’s generated 2027 festival table, and the monthly fasts are read from the daily panchang by the rule named in the last column; both are computed from NASA JPL’s DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa. Tithi start and end instants come from the site’s tithi calculator, checked against 86 rows of those tables and never more than 1 minute out. The Shukla Ashtami of Navratri and the sunrise Amavasya are folded into the Durga Ashtami and Diwali rows, which carry the same tithi on the same date. Sunrise, sunset and moonrise shift from city to city while a tithi’s instants do not, so check a date that sits close to an edge in the panchang tool for your own town.

Ashwina Becomes Kartika, Twice

The lunar month that runs through most of October opened with the new moon at 08:06 on 30 September, with the Sun in sidereal Virgo, which makes it Ashwina in an amanta almanac. A purnimanta almanac agrees for the bright fortnight and then moves on to Kartika at the full moon, 19:17 on 15 October. The amanta almanac waits for the next new moon, which is the end of the Diwali Amavasya itself, at 19:06 on 29 October, the Sun by then in Libra. So Karva Chauth, Dhanteras, Narak Chaturdashi and Diwali sit in the dark half of amanta Ashwina, and the same days are the dark half of Kartika in north Indian reckoning. Govardhan Puja and Bhai Dooj open Kartika’s bright half in both systems. The Sun’s own crossing into Libra at 02:03 on 18 October renames no lunar month; the site prints it as that instant and gives no Sankranti observance day. All of October lies inside Chaturmas, which runs on to Dev Uthani Ekadashi on 10 November.

Navratri’s October Days and the Two-Morning Ashtami

Sharad Navratri begins in September. Its Pratipada opens at 08:06 on 30 September, 113 minutes after sunrise, and is gone 38 minutes before the next sunrise, so no New Delhi morning dawns on it; the festival table dates the start by the day the tithi opens. Read morning by morning, the daily panchang then gives nine October dates, from Friday 1 October to Saturday 9 October, for the eight tithis from Dwitiya to Navami. The extra date comes from Ashtami. The Navratri 2027 page sets out the nine forms of the Devi day by day. The Chaturthi on Sunday 3 October fills that day’s madhyahna, so it is also the month’s Vinayaka Chaturthi, and Venus enters Libra at 18:20 the same evening.

Durga Ashtami is the row the festival table itself marks as vriddhi. Shukla Ashtami opens at 04:13 on Thursday 7 October, before dawn, and closes at 06:28 on Friday 8 October, only 11 minutes after that morning’s 06:17 sunrise. Both mornings are Ashtami mornings. The table prints 7 October, the first; calendars that keep the Ashtami on its second sunrise print 8 October, and neither is a mistake. Which of the two your family keeps for Ashtami puja and kanya pujan is a question for your own almanac or priest, and the Navratri page goes through both readings. The same Thursday is also the month’s Masik Durgashtami, so the table gives it one row. Mercury stations retrograde in Libra that day, and Mars enters Scorpio at 01:21 on 8 October, in the small hours before the second Ashtami dawn.

Maha Navami and Dussehra on One Saturday

Navami begins the moment Ashtami ends and holds the Saturday 9 October sunrise, so Maha Navami is that day. It ends at 09:02 the same morning, and Dashami takes over. Dussehra’s row is not a sunrise row: the festival table tests Dashami in aparahna, the fourth of five equal parts of daylight, which on 9 October runs from 13:18 to 15:38 and is wholly Dashami. On Sunday 10 October the tithi ends at 11:41, before that afternoon’s aparahna begins. That puts Vijayadashami on the Navami date. A calendar that marks only the sunrise tithi will still show Dashami against the Sunday, since that morning dawns on it, but that is the day’s tithi label and not the festival; the site’s festival rules date Dussehra by aparahna.

Papankusha Ekadashi to Sharad Purnima, Inside a Panchak

The Ekadashi opens at 11:41 on 10 October, as Dashami ends, and lasts until 14:09 on Monday 11 October. That makes 11 October Papankusha Ekadashi, the bright-fortnight Ekadashi of Ashwina, with no Smarta and Vaishnava split: by arunodaya, 96 minutes before sunrise, the Ekadashi has already been running for over 17 hours. The Bhaum Pradosh Vrat follows on Tuesday 12 October, its Trayodashi covering the whole pradosh span.

Those days sit in the month’s one Panchak, the stretch while the Moon crosses Kumbha and Meena, from 02:55 on 11 October to 23:29 on 15 October. It holds four of the table’s rows, ending with both Purnima entries. Sharad Purnima is Thursday 14 October. The Purnima tithi starts at 18:49 that evening, after sunset, and the festival table tests it at nishita, the middle of the night, which falls inside it on the Thursday and not on the Friday. The full moon itself is at 19:17 on Friday 15 October, and that morning’s sunrise is the one the Purnima holds, so the Purnima 2027 list and any sunrise calendar give 15 October as Ashwina Purnima. The two rows are the same tithi read at two different moments, a night and a dawn.

Karva Chauth on 19 October, Sankashti on 18 October

Karva Chauth is the Krishna Chaturthi of this fortnight, and by custom the fast ends when the Moon has been seen. Here the moonrise and the sunrise point to different days. The Chaturthi runs from 17:52 on Monday 18 October to 16:42 on Tuesday 19 October. The Karva Chauth row follows the sunrise rule and gives the Tuesday, the morning that dawns on Chaturthi. That evening the Moon rises at 20:24 in New Delhi, 3 hours 42 minutes after Panchami has begun; the site’s twelve-city moonrise table for the date runs from 19:53 in Kolkata to 21:06 in Mumbai, and every one of those is after the tithi’s end. On the Monday evening the Chaturthi is current at moonrise, 19:30 in New Delhi and inside the tithi in all twelve cities, which is why the table puts Sankashti Chaturthi on 18 October.

Calendars that date Karva Chauth by the Chaturthi at moonrise will therefore print 18 October, and calendars that follow the sunrise tithi will print 19 October. This page shows both and does not choose; the Sankashti Chaturthi 2027 list sets out the same two evenings. Whichever day your household keeps, take the moonrise for your own city and that evening from a local panchang. The Sun’s Libra crossing falls in the small hours of the Monday.

Kalashtami, a Saturday Pushya and Rama Ekadashi

Saturn, retrograde since August, slips back from Aries into Pisces on 20 October; the Saturn transit 2027 page covers the move, which the site dates to the day only. Mercury, also retrograde, re-enters Virgo at 08:16 on 21 October. Kalashtami is the night of Friday 22 October, and the Moon reaches Pushya at 20:24 that same night, leaving it at 19:07 on Saturday. The one sunrise inside the passage is a Saturday’s, so October has neither a Guru Pushya nor a Ravi Pushya by any reading the Guru and Ravi Pushya 2027 page uses.

Rama Ekadashi is the month’s one Ekadashi with two dates. The tithi opens at 05:41 on Monday 25 October, 46 minutes before sunrise, so the sunrise rule gives the Monday. At arunodaya, though, Dashami was still running, by 50 minutes. Vaishnava calendars reject an Ekadashi touched by Dashami at that hour, and they keep the fast on Tuesday 26 October, whose sunrise is already Dwadashi. The Ekadashi 2027 list gives the arunodaya check for six cities.

Dhanteras to Bhai Dooj: 27 October to 31 October

Dhanteras is Wednesday 27 October. Its Krishna Trayodashi opens at 01:03 and closes at 22:50 on the same date, so it holds that day’s sunrise and the whole of its pradosh span, the test the festival table applies, and the evening is also the month’s second Pradosh, a Budh Pradosh Vrat. When the Trayodashi ends, the Chaturdashi begins, and it is still current at midnight, which makes the same night Masik Shivratri. Venus moves into Scorpio at 21:53, between the pradosh span and the end of the Trayodashi; the Venus in Scorpio 2027 page follows it from there.

Narak Chaturdashi is Thursday 28 October, the evening whose pradosh the Chaturdashi fills; Mercury turns direct in Virgo the same day. The Amavasya opens at 20:48 that night, after the Thursday pradosh span has closed, and runs until the new moon at 19:06 on Friday 29 October. It holds the Friday sunrise and the start of the Friday pradosh, and no other evening’s, so the sunrise reading and the pradosh reading agree: Diwali and Lakshmi Puja fall on Friday 29 October. This page gives the date and the tithi instants only. It prints no Lakshmi Puja window inside that evening, because the site has no committed reading to support one.

Shukla Pratipada starts with the new moon and holds the Saturday sunrise, which makes 30 October Govardhan Puja and Annakut. Dwitiya opens at 17:52 on the Saturday evening and runs to 17:13 on Sunday 31 October, holding that day’s madhyahna, so Bhai Dooj closes the month on its last day. Chhath follows on 4 November.

Related Pages

The month before is the September 2027 vrat and festival list, where Navratri begins, and the month after is the November 2027 list, with Chhath and Dev Uthani. The October 2027 panchang has each day’s tithi and nakshatra. For the year, see the 2027 festival calendar, the festivals hub, the Pradosh Vrat 2027 list, the Mercury transit 2027 page and the Sun transit 2027 page.