Paush Amavasya 2027: Date, Time and Two Month Names

The first new moon of 2027 gives no trouble over its day and plenty over its name. By the sunrise rule it is Thursday, 7 January 2027, and the margins are wide enough that no city on the site’s list disagrees. North Indian calendars print it as Paush Amavasya. Calendars that end each month at the new moon print a different month, and they keep the words “Paush Amavasya” for the new moon after this one.

A Tithi Longer Than a Day, With One Sunrise (पौष अमावस्या)

The tithi closes at the new moon, which the site’s DE421 lunation table puts at 01:54 on Friday 8 January 2027. It opens at 23:14 on Wednesday 6 January 2027. That opening instant is not in any generated table; it comes from the site’s lunar code, whose tithi instants match the DE421 tables to within 1 minute across the 86 instants where the two can be compared, and whose end for this Amavasya matches the lunation row as well.

So the Amavasya lasts 26 hours and 40 minutes, longer than a day, yet it holds only one sunrise. It begins well after dark on the 6th, when that day’s Krishna Chaturdashi has long since been fixed by the 07:14 sunrise, and it is gone before the 8th begins to get light, so that morning’s 07:15 sunrise belongs to Shukla Pratipada. Between the two, New Delhi’s sunrise at 07:14 on Thursday the 7th falls squarely inside it.

No City Is Near the Edge This Time

The December Amavasya ends so close to dawn that the site does not rule for Kolkata. This one leaves room everywhere. Running the site’s sunrise code over all 38 panchang cities, the earliest sunrise on the 8th is Guwahati’s at 06:11, still more than 4 hours after the new moon; Kolkata’s is at 06:18. At the other end, the latest sunrise on the 7th is Jammu’s at 07:33, long after the tithi began. Every listed city therefore has Amavasya at sunrise on 7 January and Pratipada at sunrise on 8 January, and a local panchang from Guwahati to the west coast should print the same day.

Why It Falls Inside the Dhanu Kharmas

A new moon is the moment the Moon catches up with the Sun in longitude, so the sign of the conjunction is the Sun’s own sign. The ingress table has the Sun entering sidereal Sagittarius at 10:20 on 16 December 2026 and moving on into Capricorn at 21:05 on 14 January 2027; the lunation table places this conjunction in Sagittarius, in the nakshatra Purva Ashadha. The month the Sun spends in Sagittarius is what the site’s Kharmas table calls the Dhanu Kharmas, listed from 16 December 2026 to 14 January 2027, and this Amavasya sits in the second half of it.

That matters to families planning a ceremony rather than a fast: the custom recorded with the Kharmas table defers auspicious beginnings through it, and the Kharmas page sets out which ceremonies that covers. The window does not move the Amavasya or change its name; it bears only on what is begun while it lasts.

Paush in the North, Margashirsha in the Amanta Calendars

Count by full moons, as north Indian calendars do, and the month containing this new moon began after the full moon of 24 December 2026. The full moon before that one is Kartik Purnima, so the month just ending is Margashirsha and this one is Pausha; it runs to Paush Purnima on 22 January. This is the Amavasya at its middle, hence Paush Amavasya. The Krishna Ekadashi of the same dark fortnight holds the sunrise of Sunday 3 January 2027; it is Saphala Ekadashi.

Count by new moons, as calendars in Maharashtra, Gujarat and the south do, and the month ending here began at the new moon of 9 December 2026. Vivah Panchami, a Margashirsha festival in both systems, falls inside it, so that month is Margashirsha and this is Margashirsha Amavasya, its closing day. The December 2026 Amavasya page reached the same answer from the other side. The following amanta month is Pausha, and it holds both Paush Purnima and Sakat Chauth, a Pausha festival in the amanta tables, so the new moon that ends it is the amanta calendars’ Paush Amavasya.

The same two words point at days a month apart. A search for the February date of “Paush Amavasya” is reading an amanta calendar; that day is covered on the Mauni Amavasya 2027 page.

The Monthly Offering to the Ancestors

The Dharmashastra manuals attach to each Amavasya a darsha shraddha, a monthly rite for the ancestors, and place its tarpan, water offered with sesame, in the aparahna, the later part of the afternoon. On Thursday the 7th there is no choice of afternoons to make: the tithi had begun the night before and lasts until after midnight following the 17:39 sunset, so the whole of the day’s daylight is Amavasya. The site does not compute the aparahna in minutes and prints no window for it; a family purohit or a printed local panchang carries that.

Quick Reference

• Amavasya at sunrise (New Delhi): Thursday, 7 January 2027, sunrise 07:14, sunset 17:39
• Tithi: 23:14 on 6 January (computed) to the new moon at 01:54 on 8 January (DE421)
• Names: Paush Amavasya (purnimanta); Margashirsha Amavasya (amanta)
• New moon position: Sagittarius, Purva Ashadha; inside the Dhanu Kharmas
• Next Amavasya at sunrise: Saturday, 6 February 2027

Every new moon of the year is on the Amavasya 2027 list. The panchang calculator gives the sunrise tithi for New Delhi only; sunrise and sunset for other cities are on the city panchang pages. See the 2027 festival calendar and the festival pages for what follows. In Hindi: पौष अमावस्या 2027: तारीख, तिथि का समय और मास के दो नाम.