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Krishna paksha · Vaishakha · amanta reckoning

When is Apara Ekadashi 2027?

Apara Ekadashi 2027 is on Tuesday, 1 June. Parana, breaking the fast, is on 2 June, 04:51 to 07:32 in Kolkata.

Also called Achala Ekadashi, Bhadrakali Ekadashi. Those are the same observance and the same date, so they share this page rather than competing with it from a second URL.

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Outside India

The whole table below is recomputed for the city you pick. That is not cosmetic: an observance decided at moonrise, such as Karwa Chauth, can genuinely fall on a different day in two cities, and the moment the fast ends differs by more than an hour across India.

Computed for Kolkata

The date in Kolkata

Tuesday, 1 June 2027

Apara Ekadashi 2027 timings in Kolkata
TimingKolkataWhat it is
Parana (breaking the fast), 2 Jun 202704:51 to 07:32The window is the first fifth of the daylight (pratahkala).

Apara Ekadashi is not a Gregorian date. It is Krishna paksha tithi 11 of Vaishakha in the amanta reckoning, and the Gregorian day it lands on moves by up to a month between years because twelve lunations fall about eleven days short of a solar year.

Tithi
Ekadashi, Krishna paksha
Lunar month
Vaishakha (amanta)
Tithi begins
31 May, 10:03
Tithi ends
1 Jun, 09:40
Decided at
Sunrise
Sunrise in Kolkata
1 Jun, 04:51

Sunrise in Kolkata falls at 04:51 on that day, and that is the instant the tithi has to be running at for the day to carry the observance. It is computed for this city rather than assumed, because it is what decides the date.

The two instants above are the astronomy and are not in dispute. The day is an interpretation of them: this observance is decided at sunrise, so it belongs to the day whose sunrise the tithi carries — not simply to the day the tithi begins.

Krishna paksha · Jyeshtha (purnimanta) · Vaishakha (amanta)

Apara Ekadashi 2027: Smarta and Vaishnava dates

Apara Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark (krishna) half of Jyeshtha in the purnimanta reckoning used across North India, and of Vaishakha in the amanta reckoning used in the south and west. It is the same night: the two calendars name the dark fortnight after different months.

Listed here (Smarta, the sunrise rule)
Tuesday, 1 June 2027 — The fast belongs to the day whose sunrise carries Ekadashi — the day AstroSage lists and the one this page leads with.
Vaishnava (ISKCON), the arunodaya rule
Tuesday, 1 June 2027 — The same day this year. The Vaishnava rule reads the tithi at arunodaya, the 96 minutes before sunrise, rather than at sunrise; the arunodaya of Tuesday, 1 June 2027 (1 Jun, 03:15) is already inside Ekadashi, not Dashami.

Every day above is computed for Kolkata from the same tithi instants. ISKCON temples publish their own calendar for each city and also apply the Mahadvadashi rules, which can move a fast to Dwadashi in some years — where your temple's calendar differs, follow it.

Meaning and vrat katha

Apara Ekadashi vrat katha and significance

Also known as Achala Ekadashi.

Apara Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark fortnight of Jyeshtha in the purnimanta reckoning — Vaishakha Krishna in the amanta one. Apara means "boundless", for the merit the Purana assigns it. It is also called Achala Ekadashi; in Punjab, Haryana and Jammu it is kept as Bhadrakali Ekadashi, and in Odisha as Jalakrida Ekadashi, when Jagannath's festival images are taken to the water. Vishnu is worshipped as Trivikrama, the Vamana form that measured the worlds.

The katha

Retold in brief from the Brahmanda Purana, in Krishna's Ekadashi-mahatmya to Yudhishthira.

Mahidhvaja was a just and generous king, but his younger brother Vajradhvaja hated him and wanted the throne. One night Vajradhvaja killed him and buried the body secretly under a peepal tree in the forest.

Because he had died by violence and without the last rites, Mahidhvaja's spirit could not move on. It lived in that peepal as a restless ghost, troubling everyone who passed along the road beneath it.

One day the sage Dhaumya came that way. By his insight he saw who the ghost was and how it had come to be there, and instead of driving it off he took pity on it. He drew the spirit down from the tree, taught it, and then kept the Apara Ekadashi of Jyeshtha himself, giving the whole merit of the fast to the king.

The Purana says that the merit released Mahidhvaja at once: he took a radiant form, thanked the sage and went to the heavens. Krishna tells Yudhishthira that the fast clears even grave wrongs, and that its merit is as great as bathing at the most sacred places at their most auspicious times.

How the fast is kept

  • The fast runs from sunrise on the Ekadashi day to parana on Dwadashi. Many families eat a single plain meal on Dashami, the evening before.
  • Grains and rice are left out on Ekadashi. Those who cannot keep a complete fast take fruit, milk or a phalahar meal; a waterless fast is kept only by those whose tradition and health allow it.
  • Vishnu is worshipped with tulsi leaves, a lamp and his names; reading or hearing the day's katha is part of the observance, and many stay awake for a part of the night in kirtan or japa.
  • Parana is on Dwadashi, after Hari Vasara — the first quarter of Dwadashi — has passed. The window for your city is computed above.

Fasting customs are described here as tradition, not as medical advice. Consult a doctor before fasting, particularly if you are pregnant, diabetic, elderly or on medication.

All 26 · Kolkata

Every Ekadashi and its next date

Twenty-four in an ordinary year, two more in a year with an adhika month. Each has its own page with its katha, parana and Smarta and Vaishnava dates.

The next Ekadashi and its parana · every Ekadashi of 2027 with tithi and parana times

Muhurat · Kolkata

Apara Ekadashi muhurat

Apara Ekadashi is decided at sunrise, which is an instant rather than a window, so there is no anchor window to intersect with the tithi. The generally auspicious windows of the day are below, and Abhijit is the one most commonly used where an observance names no muhurat of its own.

Auspicious windows that day

WindowTime in KolkataWhat it is
Abhijit Muhurat 11:07 to 12:01 Auspicious
Amrit Kaal 10:24 to 12:01 Most Auspicious
Brahma Muhurat 03:26 to 04:09 Auspicious

Windows usually worked around

These are the spans classical muhurta sets aside for beginnings. They are descriptions of a convention, not warnings: the observance is kept on its day regardless, and nothing here needs to be bought, corrected or remedied.

WindowTime in Kolkata
Rahu Kaal 14:55 to 16:36
Yamaganda Kaal 08:12 to 09:53
Durmuhurta First 07:32 to 08:26

Every window above is computed for Kolkata on Tuesday, 1 June 2027, from that day's sunrise, sunset and the following sunrise. The Vedic day runs sunrise to sunrise, so a window whose clock time falls after midnight still belongs to the date named above rather than to the one the wall clock has turned over to.

Apara Ekadashi across five years

Two years back, this year, and two ahead. Past years are kept rather than dropped so you can check the engine against a calendar you already have.

YearDateStatus
2024 Sunday, 2 June 2024 past
2025 Friday, 23 May 2025 past
2026 Wednesday, 13 May 2026 past
2027 Tuesday, 1 June 2027 upcoming
2028 Saturday, 20 May 2028 upcoming

Every row is computed for Kolkata from the same ephemeris, not looked up. Sunrise decides which day a tithi names, and sunrise differs across India by more than an hour, so a date computed for Delhi can be a day out elsewhere.

Why calendars disagree about this date

There is no single authority that settles a Hindu festival date, and the divergence is genuine rather than sloppy. Three causes account for almost all of it.

  1. A tithi rarely starts at sunrise. One that is running at the deciding moment on two days — or on none — is claimed by both days under different rules.
  2. Month reckoning. North India runs purnimanta, the south and west amanta. The same dark fortnight carries different month names in the two, so an observance defined as "krishna X of month Y" can land a full lunation apart.
  3. Which moment decides. Most vratas belong to the day whose sunrise carries the tithi, but not all: this one is decided at sunrise. Almanacs that apply the sunrise rule to everything move several festivals by a day.

So this page shows its working. If your pandit or your family almanac gives a different day, the instants above will usually show you exactly why — and that is more useful than a date asserted without one.

Common questions

When is Apara Ekadashi?

Tuesday, 1 June 2027. It is Ekadashi of Krishna paksha in Vaishakha, and that tithi runs from 31 May, 10:03 to 1 Jun, 09:40.

Why does another calendar give a different Apara Ekadashi date?

Three honest reasons. The tithi can be running at the deciding moment on two days or on none. North India reckons the month purnimanta and the south and west amanta, which names the same krishna fortnight differently. And almanacs differ on which moment of the day decides an observance. The instants above are the astronomy; the day is an interpretation of them.

Why is Apara Ekadashi observed?

Apara Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark fortnight of Jyeshtha in the purnimanta reckoning — Vaishakha Krishna in the amanta one. Apara means "boundless", for the merit the Purana assigns it. It is also called Achala Ekadashi; in Punjab, Haryana and Jammu it is kept as Bhadrakali Ekadashi, and in Odisha as Jalakrida Ekadashi, when Jagannath's festival images are taken to the water. Vishnu is worshipped as Trivikrama, the Vamana form that measured the worlds.

Where does the Apara Ekadashi vrat katha come from?

It is told in the Brahmanda Purana, in Krishna's Ekadashi-mahatmya to Yudhishthira. The katha is retold in full above.

Is Apara Ekadashi on a different day for Smarta and Vaishnava (ISKCON)?

Not this year — both keep Tuesday, 1 June 2027. The Vaishnava rule reads Ekadashi at arunodaya, and Ekadashi already holds that day's arunodaya.