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Shukla paksha · Chaitra · amanta reckoning

When is Kamada Ekadashi 2027?

Kamada Ekadashi 2027 is on Saturday, 17 April. Parana, breaking the fast, is on 18 April, 05:52 to 07:43 in New Delhi.

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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 New Delhi

The date in New Delhi

Saturday, 17 April 2027

Kamada Ekadashi 2027 timings in New Delhi
TimingNew DelhiWhat it is
Parana (breaking the fast), 18 Apr 202705:52 to 07:43The window is the first fifth of the daylight (pratahkala). Dwadashi ends inside the window, so parana closes there.

Kamada Ekadashi is not a Gregorian date. It is Shukla paksha tithi 11 of Chaitra 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, Shukla paksha
Lunar month
Chaitra (amanta)
Tithi begins
16 Apr, 11:22
Tithi ends
17 Apr, 09:28
Decided at
Sunrise
Sunrise in New Delhi
17 Apr, 05:54

Sunrise in New Delhi falls at 05:54 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.

Shukla paksha · Chaitra

Kamada Ekadashi 2027: Smarta and Vaishnava dates

Listed here (Smarta, the sunrise rule)
Saturday, 17 April 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
Saturday, 17 April 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 Saturday, 17 April 2027 (17 Apr, 04:18) is already inside Ekadashi, not Dashami.

Every day above is computed for New Delhi 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

Kamada Ekadashi vrat katha and significance

Kamada Ekadashi is the first Ekadashi of the Hindu year, the bright half of Chaitra, a few days after Ram Navami. Kamada means "the one that fulfils wishes", and the day is kept for Vishnu in the hope of freedom from a fault or a curse — which is what its katha is about. It is also widely kept in Vaishnava homes as the Ekadashi that opens the year's cycle of twenty-four.

The katha

Retold in brief from the Varaha Purana, in the Ekadashi-mahatmya, where the sage Vasishtha tells it to King Dilipa and Krishna repeats it to Yudhishthira.

In the city of Ratnapura, King Pundarika held court among gandharvas, kinnaras and apsaras. Among the singers was the gandharva Lalit, whose wife Lalita was a dancer, and the two were devoted to each other.

One day Lalit sang before the king while Lalita was away, and his mind wandered to her; he lost the rhythm and the words. The king took it as an insult and cursed him to become a man-eating rakshasa. At once Lalit's form changed into something huge and terrible, and he fled to the forests, with Lalita following him in grief.

In the Vindhya hills she found the ashram of the sage Shringi and begged him for a way to free her husband. The sage told her that the Ekadashi of the bright half of Chaitra, Kamada, was near: if she kept it with devotion and gave its merit to Lalit, the curse would end.

Lalita kept the fast, stayed awake through the night, and on Dwadashi offered its merit to her husband before Vishnu. The Purana says Lalit returned at once to his own form, and the two went back to the gandharvas' world together. Vasishtha closes by saying that the fast removes even a fault as heavy as that curse, and that hearing the story is itself counted as merit.

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 · New Delhi

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 · New Delhi

Kamada Ekadashi muhurat

Kamada 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 New DelhiWhat it is
Abhijit Muhurat 11:55 to 12:46 Auspicious
Amrit Kaal 23:58 to 01:30 Most Auspicious
Brahma Muhurat 04:25 to 05:09 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 New Delhi
Rahu Kaal 09:07 to 10:44
Yamaganda Kaal 13:57 to 15:34
Durmuhurta First 05:54 to 06:45
Durmuhurta Second 06:45 to 07:37
Varjyam 14:47 to 16:19

Every window above is computed for New Delhi on Saturday, 17 April 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.

Kamada 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 Friday, 19 April 2024 past
2025 Tuesday, 8 April 2025 past
2026 Sunday, 29 March 2026 past
2027 Saturday, 17 April 2027 upcoming
2028 Wednesday, 5 April 2028 upcoming

Every row is computed for New Delhi 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 Kamada Ekadashi?

Saturday, 17 April 2027. It is Ekadashi of Shukla paksha in Chaitra, and that tithi runs from 16 Apr, 11:22 to 17 Apr, 09:28.

Why does another calendar give a different Kamada 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 Kamada Ekadashi observed?

Kamada Ekadashi is the first Ekadashi of the Hindu year, the bright half of Chaitra, a few days after Ram Navami. Kamada means "the one that fulfils wishes", and the day is kept for Vishnu in the hope of freedom from a fault or a curse — which is what its katha is about. It is also widely kept in Vaishnava homes as the Ekadashi that opens the year's cycle of twenty-four.

Where does the Kamada Ekadashi vrat katha come from?

It is told in the Varaha Purana, in the Ekadashi-mahatmya, where the sage Vasishtha tells it to King Dilipa and Krishna repeats it to Yudhishthira. The katha is retold in full above.

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

Not this year — both keep Saturday, 17 April 2027. The Vaishnava rule reads Ekadashi at arunodaya, and Ekadashi already holds that day's arunodaya.