Vikram Samvat 2083: Which Year Is Running, When It Turns

The answer depends on where the almanac was printed. A north Indian panchang has been in Vikram Samvat 2083 since Thursday 19 March 2026, the Chaitra Shukla Pratipada that the Hindi-speaking states keep as Nav Samvatsar. A Gujarati panchang is still in Samvat 2082, and moves to 2083 at Bestu Varas on Tuesday 10 November 2026. The Shaka year, the era of Gudi Padwa and Ugadi, is 1948, and it turned on the same March day as the northern Vikram year.

The year numbers here are worked out from the offsets in the site’s regional-calendar table: the Vikram era runs 57 years ahead of the Common Era and the Shaka era 78 behind it. The turn days come from the computed festival tables for New Delhi. The page prints dates only, not the clock time of any tithi.

Which Samvat Year Holds on Any Date, 2026 to 2028

Find the row your date falls in. Each row begins on the day one of the two new years falls, and the change column says which.

The two Vikram columns differ only in the rows between a March or April turn and the Kartika turn that follows it. For the rest of the year they agree. The last row runs on past the end of the table to the Chaitra Shukla Pratipada of 2029, which the site’s festival tables do not yet reach.

One Era, Two New Years

The north and Gujarat count the same era but start its year at different points. In the north the year opens at Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, the first tithi of the bright fortnight after the spring new moon. The regional table lists the same tithi as the new year in Maharashtra (Gudi Padwa), Karnataka (Yugadi) and Telangana (Ugadi). Those states count the Shaka era instead, so a Pune and a Varanasi almanac change year on the same morning and print different numbers.

Gujarat counts Vikram years but opens them at Bestu Varas, on Kartika Shukla Pratipada after Diwali. From the northern new year until Bestu Varas, a Gujarati almanac is therefore one year behind a north Indian one. After Bestu Varas the two agree again until the next Chaitra. The Govardhan Puja page covers the other names this Pratipada carries, and Labh Panchami 2026 counts the first days of the Gujarati year.

There is a second subtlety in the north. Northern almanacs end each month at the full moon, so their Chaitra begins a fortnight before the year does, and its dark half falls in the old Samvat. Chaitra 2027 gives that fortnight’s dates. The solar calendars of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bengal, Odisha and Assam turn their year at the Sun’s entry into sidereal Aries and number it in other ways, which this page does not cover.

The Six Turn Days, and Two Pratipadas That Held No Sunrise

A festival tied to a tithi normally goes to the day whose sunrise that tithi holds. Twice in these three years a new-year Pratipada held none at New Delhi. In 2026 the Chaitra Pratipada began after the sunrise of 19 March, which still carried Amavasya, and ended before the next dawn, so 20 March opened on Shukla Dwitiya. In 2028 the Kartika Pratipada did the same on 18 October 2028. A tithi that never meets a sunrise is a kshaya tithi. The festival table assigns each of these new years to the day on which its tithi began.

The regional table describes Bestu Varas as the day after Diwali, and in 2027 and 2028 it is. In 2026 Lakshmi Puja is on Sunday 8 November 2026, decided by the Amavasya at pradosh. The sunrise of 9 November 2026 still carries Amavasya, so the Gujarati year turns two days after Diwali, on the 10th.

Why the Northern Year 2083 Runs 384 Days

Twelve lunar months make about 354 days, and the Samvat years here fit that: the Gujarati year 2083 runs 354 days, from 10 November 2026 to the eve of 30 October 2027, and Gujarati 2084 runs 354. The northern 2083 is the exception. From 19 March 2026 to 7 April 2027 is 384 days, because the year holds a thirteenth month, Adhika Jyeshtha, from 17 May 2026 to 15 June 2026. The northern 2084 goes back to 355 days.

The extra month also explains why the northern new year moves from 19 March in 2026 to 7 April in 2027 and then back to 27 March in 2028. Without it, the months would drift about eleven days a year against the seasons. The Gujarati year that ends on 9 November 2026 holds the same adhika month, because its span takes in May and June 2026. The site’s adhika table has no other extra month before Adhika Chaitra in 2029. That one falls right at the turn of the northern year, and its margin in the table is under an hour, so almanacs that use a different ayanamsa could place it differently. The next adhik maas covers the rule, and how long a lunar month is gives the month-by-month lengths.

Converting a Date by Hand

• Vikram Samvat, north: add 57 to the Common Era year from Chaitra Shukla Pratipada to 31 December, and 56 from 1 January to the day before it.
• Vikram Samvat, Gujarat: add 57 from Bestu Varas to 31 December, and 56 from 1 January to the day before Bestu Varas.
• Shaka: subtract 78 from Chaitra Shukla Pratipada to 31 December, and 79 before it.

So 1 January 2027 is Vikram 2083 in both north and Gujarat, and Shaka 1948. 15 August 2027 falls after the 2027 Chaitra turn and before that year’s Bestu Varas, so it is Vikram 2084 in the north, 2083 in Gujarat and Shaka 1949. The only thing to check for any year is which side of the two new-year days the date falls on.

Writing a Date the Samvat Way

In a Samvat date, the year number goes with a month, a paksha and a tithi rather than a calendar day. The month name is where the two reckonings part. Diwali on 8 November 2026 falls on the Kartika Amavasya of northern Vikram 2083. A Gujarati almanac, ending its months at the new moon, files the same Amavasya as the last day of Ashwina in its year 2082. Two days later, 10 November 2026 is Kartika Shukla Pratipada in both reckonings, Vikram 2083. For the tithi of a particular day, use the panchang. To find the day a tithi birthday falls in a coming year, see the tithi birthday table.

In Brief

• Running on 27 October 2026: Vikram 2083 in the north, 2082 in Gujarat, Shaka 1948
• Gujarati new year 2026: Bestu Varas, Tuesday 10 November 2026, opening Vikram 2083
• Next northern new year: Wednesday 7 April 2027, opening Vikram 2084 and Shaka 1949
• Year lengths: northern 2083 has 384 days with Adhika Jyeshtha; the others in the table have 354 or 355

Every festival date in these years is on the festival calendar, including Gudi Padwa 2027 and Govardhan Puja 2027. In Hindi: विक्रम संवत 2083: कौन सा संवत चल रहा है और कब बदलता है.