Saphala Ekadashi 2027: Date, Parana, and None in 2026

Looking for Saphala Ekadashi 2026? (सफला एकादशी)

There is not one. The Saphala Ekadashi that follows 2026’s Mokshada falls on Sunday, 3 January 2027, and the one before it fell in December 2025. The calendar year in between holds no Saphala at all.

The obvious candidate is the dark-fortnight Ekadashi of January 2026, which the daily table puts at sunrise on Wednesday 14 January. But that one came after Paush Purnima, which the 2026 table places on 3 January; it belonged to the waning half of Pausha in the amanta reckoning and is the Ekadashi known as Shattila. Saphala comes a fortnight earlier, in the waning half that precedes Pausha’s bright fortnight, and with Paush Purnima falling so early in January, that put it in December 2025. At the other end of the year, the last dark-fortnight Ekadashi of 2026, on 4 December, is separated from Mokshada by the new moon of 9 December, so in the amanta reckoning it closes Kartika, not Margashirsha.

The reason the gap spans a whole calendar year is the added month. The table’s Adhika Jyeshtha ran from 17 May to 15 June 2026, so thirteen lunations, not twelve, separate one Saphala from the next. A twelve-lunation year runs about eleven days short of the solar year and would have brought Saphala back in December 2026; the thirteenth pushes it past the new year. In 2027 there is no added month, so the Saphala comes round about eleven days earlier in the solar calendar and stays inside the year: after this January’s, the table has a second one at sunrise on Thursday 23 December 2027, following that year’s Mokshada. None in 2026, two in 2027.

The December 2025 instance lies outside the range of this site’s generated tables, so it is located with the site’s own lunar code and given here by month only.

Paush to the North, Margashirsha to the West and South

The full moon at 06:58 on 24 December ends the bright half of Margashirsha. A calendar that counts months from full moon to full moon, as north Indian almanacs do, begins Paush at that instant, so Saphala is Paush Krishna Ekadashi there, and its Paush closes with Paush Purnima 2027 on Friday 22 January. A calendar that counts from new moon to new moon keeps Margashirsha running until the new moon at 01:54 on 8 January, so in Maharashtra, Gujarat and the south the same Ekadashi is Margashirsha Krishna Ekadashi. The site’s festival rules, which are amanta, file Mokshada under Margashirsha and Paush Purnima under Pausha, which places Saphala between them in the amanta Margashirsha.

Saphala means “fruitful”. The name is the vrat’s own; this page attaches no outcome to it.

An Afternoon Start, and a Shorter Dashami

The Krishna Ekadashi opens at 14:25 on 2 January and closes at 16:09 on 3 January. Neither instant is in the generated festival tables; both come from the site’s lunar code, whose results agree with the DE421 tables to within 1 minute at the 86 tithi instants where both can be compared.

The start matters for the day before the fast. Many vrat manuals ask for a single, plain meal on Dashami, and the version of that custom that says “before sunset” does not fit this year. At New Delhi, sunrise on the 2nd (07:14) is still in Krishna Dashami, but the Ekadashi arrives in the afternoon, more than three hours before the 17:35 sunset. A household keeping the Dashami meal has to take it before 14:25, that is, by early afternoon, or it falls inside the Ekadashi itself.

The day of the vrat is not in doubt. Sunrise on the 3rd (07:14) is the only one the tithi contains: the 2nd dawned on Krishna Dashami, and by sunrise on the 4th the daily table has moved on to Krishna Dwadashi. On a Vaishnava calendar the Ekadashi has been running since the previous afternoon by the pre-dawn hours, so the Dashami-in-arunodaya objection is not raised.

The Monday Parana (पारण)

Dwadashi follows straight on at 16:09 on the 3rd and lasts until 18:16 on the 4th, past that evening’s sunset at 17:37, by the same computation. So the whole daylight of Monday 4 January 2027 is Dwadashi, and the morning parana that the custom asks for, after sunrise at 07:14, is in no danger of outrunning it. Hari Vasara, the first quarter of the Dwadashi that parana-printing panchangs keep clear of, is spent before midnight on the 3rd. The Dwadashi instants above are the same across India; only the clock of sunrise and sunset is local, and since the panchang calculator is built for New Delhi, other cities’ sunrise and sunset times sit on the city panchang pages.

An Ekadashi Kept Through the Kharmas (खरमास)

The table’s Dhanu Kharmas runs from 16 December 2026 to 14 January 2027. Saphala comes eighteen days into it and eleven days before it lifts; Mokshada, on 20 December, falls inside it too. The Kharmas custom is about timing beginnings: it holds weddings, house entries, the first haircut and the sacred-thread rite until the window closes. A fast that recurs every fortnight is not a beginning of that kind, and Kharmas, as the north Indian panchangs set it out, holds back those beginnings and leaves this fast alone. The Kharmas December 2026 page sets out what the window does and does not hold back; the Mokshada Ekadashi 2026 page covers the bright-fortnight Ekadashi that precedes this one.

Quick Reference

• Fast: Sunday 3 January 2027
• Dashami meal: before 14:25 on 2 January, when the Ekadashi begins
• Ekadashi tithi (computed): 14:25 on 2 January to 16:09 on 3 January
• Parana: Monday 4 January 2027, after sunrise (07:14)
• Sunrise and sunset on 3 January (New Delhi): 07:14 and 17:36; nakshatra at sunrise Vishakha
• The other Saphala of 2027: Thursday 23 December 2027

The year ahead is laid out in the 2027 festival calendar, with the closing weeks of this year in the 2026 calendar and every computed date on the festival pages. In Hindi: सफला एकादशी 2027: तारीख, पारण, और 2026 में एक भी नहीं.