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When is Yogini Ekadashi 2027?

Yogini Ekadashi 2027 is on Wednesday, 30 June. Parana, breaking the fast, is on 1 July, 05:37 to 08:20 in Bhopal.

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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 Bhopal

The date in Bhopal

Wednesday, 30 June 2027

Yogini Ekadashi 2027 timings in Bhopal
TimingBhopalWhat it is
Parana (breaking the fast), 1 Jul 202705:37 to 08:20The window is the first fifth of the daylight (pratahkala).

Yogini Ekadashi is not a Gregorian date. It is Krishna paksha tithi 11 of Jyeshtha 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
Jyeshtha (amanta)
Tithi begins
29 Jun, 22:05
Tithi ends
30 Jun, 20:31
Decided at
Sunrise
Sunrise in Bhopal
30 Jun, 05:37

Sunrise in Bhopal falls at 05:37 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 · Ashadha (purnimanta) · Jyeshtha (amanta)

Yogini Ekadashi 2027: Smarta and Vaishnava dates

Yogini Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark (krishna) half of Ashadha in the purnimanta reckoning used across North India, and of Jyeshtha 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, 30 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
Wednesday, 30 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 Wednesday, 30 June 2027 (30 Jun, 04:01) is already inside Ekadashi, not Dashami.

Every day above is computed for Bhopal 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

Yogini Ekadashi vrat katha and significance

Yogini Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark fortnight of Ashadha in the purnimanta reckoning — Jyeshtha Krishna in the amanta one — and the last Ekadashi before Devshayani opens Chaturmas. It is kept for Vishnu, often with worship of the peepal tree, and its katha is about a duty neglected and the curse that followed, so the day is associated with setting right what one has failed to do.

The katha

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

In Alakapuri, the city of Kubera, a yaksha named Hemamali had one duty: to bring fresh flowers from the Manasa lake every morning for Kubera's worship of Shiva.

One day he went home to his wife Vishalakshi instead and stayed with her, and the flowers never came. Kubera waited through the hour of worship, then sent to find out why. When he learnt that Hemamali had simply forgotten his duty, he cursed him: he would lose his place, be parted from his wife and suffer a disease of the skin on the earth.

Hemamali fell from Alakapuri and wandered the forests in pain until he reached the ashram of the sage Markandeya in the Himalaya. He told the sage the whole truth, without excuses. Because he had not lied, Markandeya helped him: keep the Yogini Ekadashi of the dark fortnight of Ashadha, he said, and the curse will end.

Hemamali kept the fast with care. The Purana says the curse fell away, his body was restored and he returned to Alakapuri and to his wife. Krishna tells Yudhishthira that the merit of this one fast equals feeding eighty-eight thousand brahmins.

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 · Bhopal

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 · Bhopal

Yogini Ekadashi muhurat

Yogini 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 BhopalWhat it is
Amrit Kaal 16:22 to 17:55 Most Auspicious
Brahma Muhurat 04:13 to 04:55 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 Bhopal
Rahu Kaal 12:23 to 14:05
Yamaganda Kaal 07:18 to 09:00
Durmuhurta First 11:56 to 12:51
Varjyam 07:05 to 08:38

Every window above is computed for Bhopal on Wednesday, 30 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.

Yogini 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 Tuesday, 2 July 2024 past
2025 Saturday, 21 June 2025 past
2026 Friday, 10 July 2026 past
2027 Wednesday, 30 June 2027 upcoming
2028 Sunday, 18 June 2028 upcoming

Every row is computed for Bhopal 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 Yogini Ekadashi?

Wednesday, 30 June 2027. It is Ekadashi of Krishna paksha in Jyeshtha, and that tithi runs from 29 Jun, 22:05 to 30 Jun, 20:31.

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

Yogini Ekadashi is the Ekadashi of the dark fortnight of Ashadha in the purnimanta reckoning — Jyeshtha Krishna in the amanta one — and the last Ekadashi before Devshayani opens Chaturmas. It is kept for Vishnu, often with worship of the peepal tree, and its katha is about a duty neglected and the curse that followed, so the day is associated with setting right what one has failed to do.

Where does the Yogini Ekadashi vrat katha come from?

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

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

Not this year — both keep Wednesday, 30 June 2027. The Vaishnava rule reads Ekadashi at arunodaya, and Ekadashi already holds that day's arunodaya.