Gudi Padwa 2027: Date, and Why It Falls on the Same Day as Ugadi

A Maharashtrian colleague once pointed out that her New Year and her Kannada and Telugu friends’ New Year always fall on the same day, and asked whether that was a coincidence. It is not. Gudi Padwa and Ugadi are regional names for the identical lunisolar new year, observed with different customs but the same tithi.

The 2027 date

Gudi Padwa 2027 falls on Wednesday, April 7. This is Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, the first day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra, which is also the first month of the traditional lunisolar calendar year, making this genuinely a new year’s day in the Hindu calendar, not just a regional festival.

What makes it Gudi Padwa specifically

The name comes from the Gudi, a decorated pole with an upturned copper or silver vessel, a garlanded cloth, and neem leaves, hoisted outside homes in Maharashtra and Goa on this day.

It is said to commemorate a victory of the Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji, though the day’s deeper roots are in the new-year and spring-harvest tradition shared across much of India under different names.

The same day is Ugadi in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, and this site’s Ugadi 2027 post covers the regional customs and the bittersweet Ugadi Pachadi dish specific to that celebration.

Part of a larger cluster

Chaitra Navratri also begins on this same Pratipada tithi, since the lunar new year and the start of the spring Navratri coincide. The nine-day sequence that follows, along with Ram Navami on day nine, is covered in Chaitra Navratri 2027.

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Full 2027 calendar