Phalgun Month 2027: Start and End Dates, Holi, Shivratri

Phalgun 2027 at a Glance (फाल्गुन मास)

Phalgun, also spelt Falgun or Fagun, is the last month of the lunar year that starts in Chaitra, and 2027 gives it two sets of dates. In the north Indian (purnimanta) almanac it starts on Sunday 21 February and its final morning is Monday 22 March, the day of Holi: 30 sunrises at New Delhi. In the amanta almanacs of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and the Telugu states, which reckon from one new moon to the next, Phalgun begins on Tuesday 9 March and ends on Tuesday 6 April, 29 sunrises.

Only the waxing half, 9 March to 22 March, is Phalgun on both systems; it is 14 days long and holds Holashtak, Holika Dahan and Holi. The north’s waning half, 21 February to 8 March, is still Magh for an amanta reader, which is why Maha Shivratri can be dated to Phalgun in one almanac and to Magh in another. The amanta waning half, 23 March to 6 April, is Chaitra in the north. The Magh month 2027 page covers the month before; this one picks up where it stops.

Readers looking for the Bengali Falgun want a different month altogether. The Bengali calendar is solar, and its Falgun is the Sun’s stay in sidereal Aquarius, which begins at 10:04 IST on 13 February 2027 and ends at 06:55 IST on 15 March 2027, by the site’s ingress table. Which civil day the Bengali almanac then counts as the first of Falgun follows its own rule, and this page does not settle it.

Four Lunations, Four Boundary Mornings

Each edge of the month is an instant in the site’s DE421 lunation table, and each civil day takes the tithi current at its sunrise. The table pairs the instant with the first or last New Delhi morning it gives.

The February full moon arrives at 04:53 on 21 February, more than 2 hours before sunrise, so that Sunday is already the Krishna Pratipada and the first day of the north’s Phalgun. The Purnima it ends opens after sunrise on 20 February, which dawns on the Shukla Chaturdashi; no morning carries it, and the Magh Purnima 2027 page deals with the date it is kept on. At the other end, the March full moon falls at 16:13 on 22 March, more than 9 hours after sunrise, so the morning of Holi is the Purnima itself and the month’s last. The amanta opening is just as clear: the new moon of 8 March comes at 14:59, more than 8 hours into the day, leaving that Monday as the Amavasya that closes amanta Magh and 9 March as Phalgun’s first morning.

For those mornings (20 February, 21 February, 9 March, 22 March and 23 March) the town makes no difference: the site’s sunrise code puts each of the 38 cities in its panchang list on the same tithi as New Delhi. The fourth edge is another matter.

The Amavasya That Ends Amanta Phalgun Moves With the Town

The final Amavasya opens at 05:41 on 6 April and the new moon closes it at 05:21 on 7 April, both before New Delhi’s dawn. The tithi is shorter than a day, so whether any sunrise falls inside it depends on longitude. In New Delhi the tithi has been running for only 25 minutes when the Sun rises at 06:06, under the half hour this site wants before ruling on a sunrise tithi, so the daily table’s Amavasya for 6 April is arithmetic rather than a ruling. The opening instant comes from the site’s lunar code, not a table row; checked against the generated tables, it differs by at most 1 minute across 86 festival rows.

The western cities are the steady part of the table. In Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad the Sun rises later than in the east and finds the Amavasya more than half an hour old, so 6 April is the month’s Amavasya there on any reading. Going east, the margin shrinks and then reverses: in Kolkata sunrise on 6 April comes 16 minutes before the tithi opens, so the computed reading is still Krishna Chaturdashi, and the next sunrise trails the new moon by only 3 minutes; neither margin is wide enough to rule on. Hyderabad, at 26 minutes, sits just inside the zone where this page will not rule either. Across all 38 listed cities, 33 read 6 April as Amavasya and 5 as Krishna Chaturdashi, and 19 of them have one margin or the other under half an hour. Guwahati is the one place where the 7 April sunrise, 13 minutes ahead of the new moon, would still fall in the Amavasya and push the month’s last morning to 7 April; that is too close for this page to call. Your own town’s reading is on the panchang calculator.

The morning after, Wednesday 7 April, is the festival table’s Gudi Padwa, whose Shukla Pratipada opens at the new moon itself. The same table row carries Ugadi and the first day of Chaitra Navratri, and it is the morning on which amanta calendars begin Chaitra.

Festivals and Ekadashis, With Each Calendar’s Month

The timeline puts lunations, closures and observances in order. Clock times appear only for instants in the site’s tables, and the last two columns name the month each calendar assigns to that date’s New Delhi sunrise.

Vijaya Ekadashi is a vriddhi tithi: the Krishna Ekadashi is current at sunrise on both Wednesday 3 March and Thursday 4 March, so there are two candidate mornings, and the Ekadashi 2027 list explains how Smarta and Vaishnava calendars part ways over which one to keep. That list files Vijaya under Magha, using amanta names; in the north the same fast belongs to the dark half of Phalgun. Maha Shivratri follows on Saturday 6 March, dated by the festival table at nishita, the middle of the night. The site’s festival rules, which use amanta names, file it as the fourteenth of Magha’s dark half; their notes record that north Indian sources name a dark-fortnight festival by the purnimanta month, one ahead, which makes the same night Phalgun Krishna Chaturdashi there; the Maha Shivratri 2027 page has the night’s detail. The waning half closes with the Amavasya of Monday 8 March, Phalgun Amavasya in the north and Magha Amavasya in amanta almanacs.

The waxing half is Phalgun everywhere, and it loses a tithi. The Shukla Dashami opens after sunrise on 17 March and ends at 04:21 on 18 March, before that day’s sunrise, so no morning carries it (another end-time from the lunar code). The 18 March sunrise is therefore an Ekadashi one, and that is Amalaki Ekadashi, on Thursday; its margin at arunodaya, the pre-dawn reading Vaishnava calendars use, is narrow, and the Ekadashi list takes that up city by city. The fortnight ends with Holika Dahan and Holi, both filed by the festival rules as Phalguna’s Purnima. The table’s rule for Holika Dahan is “Purnima at pradosh, Bhadra excluded”: the Purnima opens at 18:22 on Sunday 21 March, a morning that still dawns on the Shukla Chaturdashi, and the bonfire belongs to that evening. Holi, by the table’s rule, is the next day, Monday 22 March.

After the full moon only the amanta reader is still in Phalgun. That calendar’s dark-half Ekadashi falls on Friday 2 April, with one sunrise; the vrat-katha collections name it Papmochani, and the north files it under Chaitra.

Holashtak, the Sun in Pisces and Meena Kharmas

The Sun spends the opening of both months in Aquarius, having entered it on 13 February, before either Phalgun starts. That is also why the amanta month carries this name: the convention followed by the site’s Amavasya 2027 list names an amanta month from the Sun’s sidereal sign at the new moon that opens it, and on 8 March that sign is Aquarius. The crossing into Pisces comes at 06:55 IST on Monday 15 March, 24 minutes after New Delhi’s sunrise, and it is the only solar ingress between the two amanta new moons. The site’s panchang data counts a lunation with no ingress as adhika, an extra month, and its 2027 table has none. The day on which Meena Sankranti is observed is left to the almanacs.

Two stretches that defer weddings and other new beginnings overlap here. The site’s Holashtak table runs from Sunday 14 March to Sunday 21 March, eight days ending on Holika Dahan, and its muhurat engine marks that closure as regional: “Observed in Punjab, Himachal, Haryana and much of North India; not generally in the south or in Bengal.” The day after Holashtak begins, Meena Kharmas opens with the Pisces ingress and runs to 14 April, past the end of both months. Counted by date, the last 8 days of north Indian Phalgun and the last 23 of the amanta month fall inside it. The Holashtak 2027 page walks through the eight days tithi by tithi, and the Kharmas 2027 page covers the month of Pisces.

The month’s name has its own lunar link. Under the nakshatra naming scheme the site’s Purnima 2027 list uses, Phalguna is the month whose full moon falls in Purva or Uttara Phalguni, and the lunation table places the 22 March full moon in Uttara Phalguni, in Virgo.

Phalgun Weddings: What the Muhurat Engine Reports

Searches for Phalgun marriage dates deserve a careful answer, because the month changes character halfway through. The site’s muhurat engine keeps its marriage calendar open from 15 January to 13 March and closes it from Holashtak on, then through Meena Kharmas. Its verdicts, which test the five panchang limbs (tithi, weekday, nakshatra, yoga and karana) along with those closures, come out like this:

Every cleared day sits before Holashtak. In the north’s Phalgun they are Thursday 4 March, Wednesday 10 March and Thursday 11 March; the first of these is Vijaya’s second morning, with the Moon in Uttara Ashadha at sunrise. The amanta month, which starts later, keeps only 10 March and 11 March. Two closed days would have passed all five limbs: 15 March, the first day of Meena Kharmas and the second of Holashtak, and, in the amanta month only, 1 April. The engine rejects both on the closures, not the limbs.

These are the engine’s verdicts, not muhurats. A day it clears is a candidate only; its note on marriage adds that the pheras need a lagna window calculated from the two charts, and that is outside what it computes. The day-by-day reasons are on the February, March and April 2027 marriage pages.

Beyond This Page

This page sets out the edges of Phalgun, the sunrises inside it and the engine’s counts; it does not read a chart, pick a wedding day, or promise anything from the month’s fasts. For the full run of February observances see the February 2027 list; the year is in the 2027 festival calendar, and every dated festival has a page under festivals. In Hindi: फाल्गुन मास 2027 कब से कब तक: होली और महाशिवरात्रि.