Utpanna Ekadashi 2027: Wednesday 24 November, Parana

Keep Utpanna Ekadashi on Wednesday, 24 November 2027, and break the fast on Thursday the 25th, in the morning. A printed panchang may show the tithi starting on Tuesday, a day early, and that is the point most likely to cause doubt this year. The sections below take it apart using the site’s computed tithis and the sunrise of each city on its panchang list.

उत्पन्ना एकादशी 2027 में कब है? व्रत बुधवार, 24 नवम्बर 2027 को है, और पारण अगले दिन, गुरुवार, 25 नवम्बर 2027 की सुबह।

Tuesday Afternoon or Wednesday Sunrise? (उत्पन्ना एकादशी)

By the site’s lunar code the Krishna Ekadashi begins at 13:45 on Tuesday 23 November and ends at 12:12 on Wednesday 24 November. Since the generated festival tables have no Utpanna row, these times come from that code alone; on the 86 tithi instants it shares with the DE421 tables, the largest gap between the two is 1 minute.

A fast is dated by the tithi current at sunrise, not by the hour a tithi starts. On Tuesday the sun is already up when the Ekadashi arrives, so that morning, at 06:49 in New Delhi, belongs to Krishna Dashami. The next morning, at 06:50, belongs to Krishna Ekadashi, and the one after, at 06:51, to Krishna Dwadashi. Only Wednesday wakes inside the Ekadashi. The afternoon start is the trap: across the 38 cities it comes between 2 hours 46 minutes (in Guwahati) and 4 hours 16 minutes (in Goa) before the local sunset, in daylight everywhere, yet it changes nothing about which day is kept.

Households whose custom ties the eve’s single meal to the Krishna Dashami itself will notice that the tithi is over by early afternoon on Tuesday; how a family handles that is a matter for its own practice. The Vaishnava arunodaya test, which looks for Krishna Dashami lingering in the 96 minutes before sunrise, has nothing to catch: by the arunodaya of 24 November the Ekadashi has been running for more than half a day in every city. Smarta and Vaishnava calendars therefore share Wednesday.

A Fast That Outlasts Its Own Tithi

The Krishna Ekadashi that names the day is gone around noon. From the 06:50 sunrise in New Delhi it has 5 hours 22 minutes left, and even at the latest dawn on the list, in Jammu, more than four hours. By the evening of the fast, then, the calendar has already moved on to Krishna Dwadashi. That does not shorten the fast. Vrat manuals keep it from one sunrise to the parana on the next day, whatever hour the tithi itself ends.

The same early handover settles Hari Vasara, the first quarter of Krishna Dwadashi, which the manuals keep clear of the parana. This year the Krishna Dwadashi lasts 22 hours 39 minutes, so its first quarter runs out in the early evening of Wednesday and is long past by Thursday morning: in every city it ends more than eleven hours before sunrise, with Guwahati the narrowest case. Nothing about Hari Vasara needs watching on the parana morning.

Families range from leaving out grain to taking neither food nor water until the parana; the forms are listed on the Ekadashi vrat niyam page. If you are pregnant, live with a medical condition or take daily medicine, ask your doctor before you fast.

A Morning-Only Parana on Thursday (पारण)

The Krishna Dwadashi runs out at 10:51 on Thursday 25 November, and the parana belongs inside it. From the 06:51 sunrise in New Delhi that leaves 4 hours. The end is a single instant for all of India, but sunrise is not, so the window is narrowest in Jammu (3 hours 42 minutes after a 07:09 sunrise) and widest in Guwahati (5 hours 3 minutes after 05:48). Every city has more than three hours, and none has the afternoon. A breakfast-time parana is comfortable; one left until lunch would come after the tithi has ended. Sunrise for your own town is on the panchang calculator.

Once the Krishna Dwadashi ends, Krishna Trayodashi takes over, and it is still current through the evening twilight after every city’s sunset that Thursday. That is why the November 2027 vrat and tyohar list places a Guru Pradosh fast on the same day as the Utpanna parana, so a household keeping both has the Utpanna parana in the morning and the Pradosh puja that evening.

Why the Date Slid Ten Days Since 2026

Last year’s fast, worked out on the Utpanna Ekadashi 2026 page from the same daily table, was Friday 4 December 2026. This year’s comes 355 days after it, ten days short of a full year, so the date falls back from 4 December to 24 November. The reason is the count of moons. Between the two fasts there are exactly twelve new moons, from 9 December 2026 to 29 October 2027, and twelve lunations in the site’s tables add up to 354 days and some hours, against about 365 for the solar year. A lunar festival that keeps the same month and fortnight from one year to the next therefore loses ground against the Gregorian calendar, by roughly that difference each time.

Lunisolar calendars make up the gap by inserting an adhika maas, an extra lunar month, every few years. None sits between these two fasts. The site’s 2026 table has its extra month, Adhika Jyeshtha, from 17 May to 15 June, months before the 2026 Utpanna, and the 2027 table has none. So nothing pulls the date back later this year.

Agahan in the North, Kartika in the West

Look up this fast in a Hindi almanac and you will find it under Margashirsha, often called Agahan, as Margashirsha Krishna Ekadashi. Those calendars are purnimanta: their month starts at a full moon, and the full moon at 08:55 on Sunday 14 November, the close of Kartik Purnima, opened their Margashirsha. Marathi, Gujarati and Kannada calendars are amanta and start the month at a new moon instead. This lunation opened at the new moon at 19:06 on Friday 29 October, with the Sun in sidereal Libra, which is the opening of Kartika, so for them Utpanna is still Kartika Krishna Ekadashi and their Margashirsha waits for the new moon at 08:54 on Sunday 28 November. The site’s festival rules use the amanta names, which is why they file Kartik Purnima under Kartika and Vivah Panchami under Margashirsha.

From Dev Uthani to Mokshada: The Days Around It

• Wednesday 10 November: Dev Uthani Ekadashi, the bright-fortnight Ekadashi before Utpanna, fourteen days earlier. Families that hold Tulsi Vivah on the Shukla Ekadashi or on the Shukla Dwadashi have that day or the next.
• Sunday 14 November: Kartik Purnima, the full moon that opens this dark fortnight, ten days before the fast.
• Sunday 21 November: the Krishna Ashtami holds this sunrise, three days before Utpanna, having begun after dark the evening before. Kaal Bhairav Jayanti is kept on this tithi; whether a calendar reads it by that midnight or this sunrise is worked through on the Kaal Bhairav Jayanti 2027 page.
• Friday 3 December: Vivah Panchami, in the bright half that follows the new moon.
• Thursday 9 December: Mokshada Ekadashi, the next Ekadashi, fifteen days after Utpanna and filed as Margashirsha shukla in both reckonings.

The dark-fortnight Ekadashi before this one, Rama Ekadashi, had a Smarta and a Vaishnava date in 2027; the Rama Ekadashi 2027 page explains why. Utpanna has no such split.

Mura and the Maiden Born of Vishnu: The Story in the Vrat Books

The vrat books tell this Ekadashi’s story from the Bhavishyottara Purana, and it is a story about a beginning. In their telling, Mura is a demon strong enough to drive the devas from their places. Vishnu fights him for a long time and at last lies down to sleep in a mountain cave. While he sleeps, Mura comes in to kill him, and a young woman appears from Vishnu’s body and fights the demon until he falls. When Vishnu wakes and asks who she is, he names her Ekadashi after the tithi of her appearing. The day takes its name, Utpanna, “the one who came forth”, from that birth.

Some vrat books go on to describe a custom of taking up a full year of Ekadashi fasts beginning from this one. That is their custom to describe. This page reports the story as the books’ and makes no claim about what keeping the fast brings.

Quick Reference for 2027

• Fast day: Wednesday 24 November 2027, in Smarta and Vaishnava calendars alike
• Krishna Ekadashi (computed): 13:45 on Tuesday 23 November to 12:12 on Wednesday 24 November
• Parana: Thursday 25 November 2027, after sunrise and before 10:51
• Month name: Margashirsha (Agahan) Krishna Ekadashi in purnimanta calendars; Kartika Krishna Ekadashi in amanta ones
• New Delhi on 24 November: sunrise 06:50, sunset 17:24, nakshatra at sunrise Hasta

Every Ekadashi of the year is on the Ekadashi 2027 list, and the wider year is set out in the 2027 Hindu festival calendar.