Shukla Chaturdashi Tithi: Every Day It Held Sunrise, 2026 and 2027

Shukla Chaturdashi is the 14th of the 30 tithis, the bright fortnight’s 14th. A panchang names a day by the tithi running at sunrise, and between 1 January 2026 and 31 December 2027 Shukla Chaturdashi was the tithi at sunrise in New Delhi on 23 days: 12 in 2026 and 11 in 2027. Twice it began after one sunrise and ended before the next, so it named no day at all (between the sunrises of 31 January 2026 and 1 February 2026; 19 April 2027 and 20 April 2027), and it never held two sunrises in a row.

Its number, 14, makes Shukla Chaturdashi a rikta (“empty”) tithi, one of the three the muhurat filter rejects in both fortnights, so none of its 23 days is offered as a muhurat day. A list of the days a tithi held sunrise is not a list of vrat days: an observance tied to a tithi is fixed by its own rule, which the festival pages apply one by one.

The 23 Days, Month by Month

By weekday, Shukla Chaturdashi held sunrise most often on Thursdays (5 times) and least on Tuesdays and Fridays (2): Sunday 4, Monday 3, Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3, Thursday 5, Friday 2, Saturday 4. Over two years that spread is chance, not a pattern; the weekday and the tithi run on unrelated cycles.

Festivals that fell on a Shukla Chaturdashi day: Holika Dahan (2 March 2026), Narasimha Jayanti (30 April 2026), Anant Chaturdashi (25 September 2026), Sharad Purnima (25 October 2026), Holika Dahan (21 March 2027), Anant Chaturdashi (14 September 2027) and Sharad Purnima (14 October 2027).

In the cycle Shukla Chaturdashi comes after Shukla Trayodashi and before Purnima; all 30 are on the tithi index. For what the five limbs are and how a day’s panchang is read, see reading the panchang and the guide to choosing a day. This page in Hindi: शुक्ल चतुर्दशी तिथि.