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Use these dates as an educational orientation. Lunar-day boundaries, location, calendar method, lineage, and community practice can change an observance date.
Calendar literacy
Learn how tithi, local time, lunar-month conventions, and regional calendars can change the way an observance is labeled or placed on a civil date.
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Download the same 24 validated Washington, D.C. / U.S. Eastern reference dates as all-day calendar events.
Reference calendar only. Festival observance can vary by location, ritual rule, calendar method, and community.
Washington, D.C. / U.S. Eastern Time (America/New_York). Dates are not universal worldwide observance dates. Significant variations appear with each record; confirm locally for ritual observance.
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Variation: New Delhi/India: Jan 15
Date may vary by location. Confirm your temple or local panchang.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: Some general/institutional calendars shift this one day
Some general or institutional calendars shift this date by one day; confirm locally.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: Some calendars show Mar 23 or Mar 22–23
Some calendars give March 23 or March 22–23. This is cross-source variation, not necessarily an India alternate.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Ugadi and Gudi Padwa share this date but are culturally distinct observances.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: New Delhi/India: Apr 15
Date may vary by location. Confirm your temple or local panchang.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
Read the related guideHigh confidence · tradition-sensitive
Variation: Other regional Hanuman birth observances occur on different dates
This is the Chaitra Purnima observance; other regional Hanuman birth observances occur on different dates.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: New Delhi/India: May 9
Date may vary by location. Confirm your temple or local panchang.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: New Delhi/India: Aug 17
Date may vary by location. Confirm your temple or local panchang.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Smarta, Vaishnava, and local observance rules can differ; the principal 2027 calculations agree on this date.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: New Delhi/India: Sep 4
Date may vary by location. Confirm your temple or local panchang.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Kerala / Malayali
Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: Local/regional calendar practice may vary
Beginning of Sharad / Shardiya Navaratri; local and regional calendar practice may vary.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: Regional Durga Puja naming/sequencing varies
Durga Puja and Navaratri naming and sequencing differ across regional traditions.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: Some India-oriented calendars/calculations place it Oct 27
Date may vary by location. Confirm your temple or local panchang.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: India-oriented references commonly: Oct 29
Date may vary by location. Confirm your temple or local panchang.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Variation: Sequence can move by one civil day depending on locality/calendar
The sequence can move by one civil day with locality and calendar; there is no single universal India alternate.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
Read the related guideHigh confidence · location-sensitive
Variation: Sequence can move by one civil day depending on locality/calendar
The sequence can move by one civil day with locality and calendar; there is no single universal India alternate.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Especially Bihar, Jharkhand, and eastern Uttar Pradesh; also observed by diaspora communities.
Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
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Date source: Drik Panchang 2027 Hindu Calendar — Washington, D.C.; India-specific calculations, Prokerala, and institutional cross-checks where relevant.
Preserved 2026 educational reference dates and original source notes. These use the cited 2026 references, not the 2027 Washington model. Confirm locally.
Solar transition, harvest, Surya, regional foods
Date source: Government of India and Supreme Court of India 2026 holiday calendars; local related observances vary.
Read the related guideTamil harvest, gratitude, sun, cattle, family
Date source: Informational four-day sequence beginning with the January 14 Pongal date in Government of India calendars; household sequencing varies.
Read the related guideShiva, vigil, devotion, contemplation
Date source: Government of India 2026 holiday calendar; confirm local night-vigil timing.
Read the related guideSpring, color, devotion, renewal
Date source: Government of India 2026 holiday calendar; local sequence varies.
Read the related guideRama’s birth, devotion, recitation, worship
Date source: Government of India 2026 holiday calendars; lunar-day and local temple timing may differ.
Read the related guideMahabali, harvest, homecoming, Kerala identity
Date source: Government of India 2026 restricted-holiday lists identify Thiruvonam on August 26; the wider Onam season begins earlier and varies by community.
Read the related guideRelationship, blessing, rakhi, mutual care
Date source: Supreme Court of India Calendar 2026 lists August 28; local full-moon timing and related observances vary.
Read the related guideKrishna’s birth, devotion, joy
Date source: Government of India 2026 holiday calendar; Smarta and Vaishnava dates may differ.
Read the related guideGanesha, beginnings, community
Date source: Government of India 2026 holiday calendar; immersion schedules vary.
Read the related guideDevi, devotion, discipline, dance
Date source: Incredible India’s 2026 Navratri listing gives October 11–19; some public programs extend through Vijayadashami on October 20. Confirm local Durga Puja and temple schedules.
Read the related guideVictory, Rama, Durga, learning, tools
Date source: Government of India 2026 holiday calendars; regional Navaratri and Vijayadashami sequences vary.
Read the related guideLight, renewal, worship, family
Date source: U.S. public holiday references and 2026 calendars; sequence and local date vary.
Read the related guide · Family activityThis is a curated educational calendar, not a complete panchang. It includes selected observances and existing guide links, not every Hindu festival, auspicious time, or local event.
A tithi is a lunar day; its boundaries can fall within a civil day. Observance rules may depend on its presence at sunrise, sunset, or another ritual period. Solar observances follow other calendrical criteria. A temple’s tradition may therefore choose another date.
Local time, sunrise, and sunset differ by place. Hindu practice includes solar and lunisolar systems, and regional month systems such as Amanta and Purnimanta. Community and lineage rules also matter. A difference need not mean that one community’s calendar is wrong.
For 2027, the primary reference is Drik Panchang’s Hindu Calendar with Washington, D.C. selected. Source websites may remember another location: check the location before comparing. India-specific calculations supply significant alternates. Prokerala and institutional observance calendars provide cross-checks; institutional calendars are not deciding ritual authorities.
Positional Astronomy Centre / IMD, Rashtriya Panchang supports technical methodology. See also Reingold and Dershowitz, Calendrical Calculations: The Ultimate Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2018, “The Modern Hindu Calendars.”
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