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Krishna paksha · Ashwin · amanta reckoning

When is Rama Ekadashi 2026?

Rama Ekadashi 2026 is on Wednesday, 4 November. Parana, breaking the fast, is on 5 November, 12:40 to 14:33 in London.

Also called Rambha Ekadashi, Ramaa 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 London

The date in London

Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Rama Ekadashi 2026 timings in London
TimingLondonWhat it is
Parana (breaking the fast), 5 Nov 202612:40 to 14:33Hari Vasara runs past the morning, so parana is kept after madhyahna (midday), in the afternoon window.

Rama Ekadashi is not a Gregorian date. It is Krishna paksha tithi 11 of Ashwin 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
Ashwin (amanta)
Tithi begins
4 Nov, 05:33
Tithi ends
5 Nov, 05:06
Decided at
Sunrise
Sunrise in London
4 Nov, 06:58

Sunrise in London falls at 06:58 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 · Kartika (purnimanta) · Ashwin (amanta)

Rama Ekadashi 2026: Smarta and Vaishnava dates

Rama Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark (krishna) half of Kartika in the purnimanta reckoning used across North India, and of Ashwin 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)
Wednesday, 4 November 2026 — 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
Thursday, 5 November 2026 — Ekadashi begins at 4 Nov, 05:33, after arunodaya on Wednesday, 4 November 2026 (4 Nov, 05:22), so Dashami still runs at that arunodaya and the Ekadashi is viddha — touched by Dashami. It ends at 5 Nov, 05:06, before the next arunodaya, so the Vaishnava fast moves to the following day.

Every day above is computed for London 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

Rama Ekadashi vrat katha and significance

Rama Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark fortnight that leads to Diwali — Kartika Krishna in the purnimanta reckoning of North India, Ashwin Krishna in the amanta one. Rama is a name of Lakshmi, and the day is kept for Vishnu together with Lakshmi; falling a few days before Dhanteras and Lakshmi Puja, it opens the Diwali season of worship in many homes. Lamps are lit before Vishnu and tulsi, and the katha read on the day is the story of Chandrabhaga, whose own fasts steadied her husband's heaven.

The katha

Retold in brief from the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, in the Ekadashi-mahatmya told by Krishna to Yudhishthira (some Hindi vrat-katha books place it in the Padma Purana).

King Muchukunda was a friend of Indra, Yama and Varuna, and so devoted to Vishnu that everyone in his kingdom kept Ekadashi. His daughter Chandrabhaga married Shobhana, a gentle prince who was never strong and found fasting hard.

Shobhana was staying at his father-in-law's court in Kartika when drums went round the city announcing the Ekadashi of the dark fortnight. He asked his wife what to do. In her father's kingdom, she told him, no one ate on that day; if he could not fast, he should leave before it began. He stayed and kept the fast, and, weak as he was, he did not live through the night.

By the merit of that one fast he was reborn as king of a shining city on Mount Mandarachala. A brahmin from Muchukunda's kingdom, Somasharma, found him there on pilgrimage, and Shobhana told him the city was real but would not last: he had fasted out of obligation, not faith. When Chandrabhaga heard this she went to the mountain and, with the blessing of the sage Vamadeva, gave her husband the merit of the Ekadashis she had kept since childhood. The city became steady, and the two lived there together.

Krishna tells Yudhishthira that the day is named for Rama, Lakshmi, and that even hearing its story is 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 · London

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 2026 with tithi and parana times

Muhurat · London

Rama Ekadashi muhurat

Rama 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 LondonWhat it is
Amrit Kaal 15:35 to 17:11 Most Auspicious
Brahma Muhurat 05:03 to 06:00 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 London
Rahu Kaal 11:43 to 12:54
Yamaganda Kaal 08:10 to 09:21
Durmuhurta First 11:24 to 12:02
Varjyam 05:20 to 06:57

Every window above is computed for London on Wednesday, 4 November 2026, 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.

Rama 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, 27 October 2024 past
2025 Thursday, 16 October 2025 past
2026 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 upcoming
2027 Monday, 25 October 2027 upcoming
2028 Saturday, 14 October 2028 upcoming

Every row is computed for London 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 Rama Ekadashi?

Wednesday, 4 November 2026. It is Ekadashi of Krishna paksha in Ashwin, and that tithi runs from 4 Nov, 05:33 to 5 Nov, 05:06.

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

Rama Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark fortnight that leads to Diwali — Kartika Krishna in the purnimanta reckoning of North India, Ashwin Krishna in the amanta one. Rama is a name of Lakshmi, and the day is kept for Vishnu together with Lakshmi; falling a few days before Dhanteras and Lakshmi Puja, it opens the Diwali season of worship in many homes. Lamps are lit before Vishnu and tulsi, and the katha read on the day is the story of Chandrabhaga, whose own fasts steadied her husband's heaven.

Where does the Rama Ekadashi vrat katha come from?

It is told in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, in the Ekadashi-mahatmya told by Krishna to Yudhishthira (some Hindi vrat-katha books place it in the Padma Purana). The katha is retold in full above.

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

Yes, this year they differ: the Smarta date is Wednesday, 4 November 2026 and the Vaishnava (ISKCON) date is Thursday, 5 November 2026. The Vaishnava rule reads Ekadashi at arunodaya, 96 minutes before sunrise, instead of at sunrise.