Buddha Purnima 2027 Thu 20 May
Festival · 30 cities, each on its own sunrise and sunset, in its own time
When is Buddha Purnima 2027?
Thursday 20 May
Vaishakha Purnima
Buddha Purnima Sunrise: what time?
Buddha Purnima in 30 cities
Times in each city’s own zone.
India
Nepal
Gulf
South-East Asia
Another place?
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Buddha Purnima 2027 by state and country
Each opens Buddha Purnima 2027 there: the date in each city.
States and territories of India
- Andaman and Nicobar
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chhattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- West Bengal
Countries
Why is Buddha Purnima on Thu 20 May?
In New Delhi
Buddha Purnima is on Thu 20 May: Purnima holds sunrise that day.
Sunrise at 05:28 is Chaturdashi; Purnima begins at 16:03.
Purnima at sunrise, 05:28. Purnima: 16:03 Wed to 16:29.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Line: Sunrise. Light strip: day; dark strip: night.
Buddha Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 16:03 on Wed 19 May to 16:29 on Thu 20 May, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 20 May, at 05:28. No text giving Buddha Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Vaishakha Purnima
Buddha Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise.
- Smarta
- the day Purnima holds at sunrise: Tithika’s convention, since no text gives the time.
- Vaishnava
- the Smarta day.
Each city’s date and times are worked out at its own sunrise and sunset; each city’s page draws the reason.