Vat Savitri 2027: 4 June Amavasya, Vat Purnima 18 or 19 June

Vat Savitri (वट सावित्री व्रत) is one vrat with two dates, and which one a family keeps depends on the calendar of the region it comes from. In 2027 the north Indian date, the new moon of Jyeshtha, is Friday, 4 June 2027. The western date, Vat Purnima (वट पूर्णिमा), comes on the full moon fourteen or fifteen days later, and this year the Purnima is current at sunrise on two mornings, Friday 18 June and Saturday 19 June. This page works out both dates from the site’s tables and shows where the second one splits.

Amavasya in the North and East, Purnima in the West

In Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Odisha the vrat falls on the Amavasya that closes Jyeshtha’s dark fortnight. Purnimanta almanacs, the usual kind across the north, end each month at the full moon, so for them that new moon sits in the middle of Jyeshtha. Household custom in Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat keeps the same vrat on Jyeshtha Purnima instead and calls it Vat Purnima. Their almanacs are amanta, beginning each month at a new moon, and the naming produces a quiet oddity: the site’s 2027 tables file the 4 June Amavasya under amanta Vaishakha, the month before, while a purnimanta almanac prints it as Jyeshtha Amavasya. The Purnima of 18 June is Jyeshtha in both systems.

The North Indian Date: Friday 4 June, With Shani Jayanti

The site’s 2027 festival table already carries this Amavasya, on its Shani Jayanti row, so the two observances fall on the same day. That row has the tithi opening at 04:05 on 4 June and closing at 01:10 on 5 June, the instant of the June new moon, a run of 21 hours 5 minutes. The site’s own tithi code lands within 1 minute of both ends, the same tolerance it keeps across all 86 festival rows it is tested on. At New Delhi the Sun rises at 05:23 on 4 June, inside the tithi, and the next sunrise belongs to the Shukla Pratipada.

The opening is close enough to dawn that the far east is worth a look. Run on each city’s own sunrise, the test holds in Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Varanasi, Patna, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar and Guwahati: all eight have the Amavasya at sunrise and at the middle of the day on 4 June, and the Pratipada by the morning of 5 June. Guwahati, with the earliest dawn at 04:30, has the least room, 25 minutes. There is no second candidate day for the north.

Vat Purnima: A Purnima Across Two Sunrises

No festival row covers the full moon, so its span comes from the tithi code: the Purnima begins at 04:35 on Friday 18 June and ends with the full moon at 06:14 on Saturday 19 June, having lasted 25 hours 39 minutes. A tithi longer than a day can contain two sunrises, and this one does. New Delhi’s daily panchang reads Purnima at dawn on both 18 June and 19 June, the condition almanacs call vriddhi, though on the second morning the tithi has only 51 minutes left.

The cities where Vat Purnima is kept all see the June sun rise later than New Delhi does, so the second-morning margin shrinks there. The table runs three tests for each city on both days: the tithi at its own sunrise, at a midday test point halfway between sunrise and sunset (a probe, not a puja time, so no clock value is printed for it), and how much of the Purnima is left once the 19 June sun is up.

Every city in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa on the list has the Purnima at both of its sunrises. The 19 June share is slim: Goa keeps it for 10 minutes after dawn and Mumbai for 13 minutes, with Nagpur, the furthest east of the western group, the longest at 42 minutes. The midday test separates the two days cleanly everywhere. On 18 June the Purnima holds midday and sunset, while on 19 June both belong to the Krishna Pratipada. Guwahati shows how local the doubling is: its 18 June sunrise at 04:30 comes 5 minutes before the Purnima opens, so a Guwahati almanac sees only one Purnima sunrise, 19 June.

18 June or 19 June: What Each Reading Picks

The measured facts point two ways, and the page does not settle between them. A reading that wants the Purnima present at sunrise and nothing further finds it on both mornings and cannot choose. A reading that also wants the tithi present through the day, when the banyan worship of the custom takes place, keeps Friday 18 June, the only day on which every western city on the list has the Purnima at sunrise, midday and sunset alike. A reading that settles a two-sunrise tithi in favour of the later morning prints Saturday 19 June, though by the middle of that day the tithi has gone. Which rule a household follows is a matter for its own almanac and family priest, and the almanac printed for your city is the one to check, since the second-morning margin is a matter of minutes in Mumbai and Goa. The site’s June 2027 vrat and festival list and Purnima 2027 list discuss the same full moon from the general Purnima side.

Savitri and Satyavan in the Mahabharata

The story the vrat is named for is told in the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata, where the sage Markandeya narrates it to Yudhishthira. Savitri, the daughter of King Ashvapati, chooses as her husband Satyavan, the son of a blind king living in exile in the forest. Narada warns that Satyavan has a single year to live; Savitri holds to her choice. As the foretold day approaches she keeps a fast of three nights, and on the day itself she goes with him into the forest, where he collapses and dies. In the epic’s telling Yama comes to take his life, and Savitri follows. Her persistence and her speech on dharma win a series of boons from Yama, and at the end of the episode Satyavan’s life is given back.

The Banyan and the Thread

The vat in the vrat’s name is the banyan, and the observance is built around one. Married women, by long-standing household custom in both the north and the west, worship a banyan tree on the day, walk around its trunk winding a cotton thread as they go, and hear or read the Savitri and Satyavan story. The custom describes its own purpose as the husband’s long life and the well-being of the marriage. That is the tradition’s account of why the vrat is kept; this page reports it and makes no claim about what the vrat or the fast does. The offerings, the number of rounds and whether the day is kept with a full fast vary by family and region, so they are best taken from your family’s practice or priest.

Vat Savitri 2027 at a Glance

• Vat Savitri (Amavasya reading): Friday, 4 June 2027, the same day as Shani Jayanti
• Jyeshtha Amavasya: 04:05 on 4 June to 01:10 on 5 June (festival table)
• Vat Purnima (Purnima reading): Friday 18 June or Saturday 19 June, by your local almanac
• Jyeshtha Purnima: 04:35 on 18 June to 06:14 on 19 June (computed)

The rest of the month’s calendar is on the Jyeshtha month 2027 page, and the year’s new moons are on the Amavasya 2027 list. For sunrise and the tithi in your own town use the panchang tool; the festivals hub indexes the rest of the year. In Hindi: वट सावित्री 2027: 4 जून अमावस्या, वट पूर्णिमा 18 या 19 जून.