Ekadashi 2027: All 25 Dates, and the One-Day Gap Two Calendars Never Agree On

Look up Ekadashi 2027 on two different sites and you will likely find one date a day apart from the other, at least twice in the year. That is not a typo on somebody’s part. It is two real traditions computing the same tithi and landing on different sunrises, and almost nobody’s listing tells you which one they printed.

I hit this directly while checking this list. Two independently published Ekadashi 2027 calendars agreed on twenty two of twenty five dates and disagreed on three: Pausha Putrada, Nirjala and Devutthana Ekadashi.

In every one of those three cases, one source was quietly printing the Vaishnava or Gauna date, a day later than the Smarta date the other used. Once I saw the pattern, I could explain every disagreement instead of just picking a side.

Ekadashi 2027, month by month

These are the twenty five Ekadashi fasting days in the Smarta tradition for 2027, computed for New Delhi. The year opens and closes on the same name, Saphala Ekadashi, because the lunar and Gregorian years don’t share a boundary.

Why the same Ekadashi sometimes prints two dates a day apart

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi 2027 is the cleanest example on the whole list. The Ekadashi tithi runs from 10:26 AM on 18 January to 7:49 AM on 19 January.

Sunrise in New Delhi on 18 January falls inside that window, so the Smarta fast, the one most households and most panchangs follow, is observed on Monday, 18 January.

But the tithi is still technically running past the next sunrise’s edge in some calculations, and a second, Gauna (secondary) observance for sanyasis, widows and those specifically seeking moksha gets listed for Tuesday, 19 January.

The same mechanism produced the other two disagreements I found while cross-checking this list: Nirjala Ekadashi (Smarta date 14 June, Gauna date 15 June) and Devutthana Ekadashi (Smarta date 10 November, Gauna date 9 November happens to run the other direction here because the tithi window sits differently that month).

Neither date is a mistake. They are two rule sets, Smarta and Vaishnava, applied to the same tithi.

A calendar that prints only one date without saying which tradition it followed isn’t wrong, it’s just incomplete, and the dates above are the Smarta dates, the ones the majority of general-purpose panchangs default to.

Nirjala Ekadashi 2027 is the tight one

Nirjala Ekadashi, 14 June 2027, is worth a separate note because its tithi window is unusually narrow: it begins at 2:11 AM on 14 June and ends at 2:07 AM on 15 June, just under 24 hours.

It’s called Nirjala because the traditional observance drops water as well as food, and it’s held to carry the merit of all 24 Ekadashis in the year for those who complete it. A tithi is the interval for the moon to gain twelve degrees on the sun, and because that interval stretches and compresses through the year, a window this close to 24 hours is coincidence, not design.

How this list was checked

Every date above was cross-referenced across two independently published Ekadashi 2027 calendars, and nine of the twenty five, including the three that disagreed, were checked directly against tithi begin and end times computed for New Delhi. The three disagreements weren’t resolved by picking whichever source looked more official.

They were resolved by reading the actual tithi window against local sunrise for each date, the same udaya-tithi method the moonrise-timed vrats on this site get checked against, and confirming which day the Smarta rule actually lands on.

Exact Parana (fast-breaking) muhurat times are city-specific, the same way moonrise is for Karva Chauth, so they aren’t listed here as a single national time.

What a birth chart does and doesn’t add here

Nothing changes about when an Ekadashi falls based on a birth chart. The date comes from the tithi, full stop.

What a chart can tell you is whether a particular Ekadashi lands during a personally significant period, such as a daśā transition, but that is context about the chart, not a claim about the fast. Anyone telling you a specific Ekadashi will make or break your year has left calculation behind.