Karwa Chauth 2027 Mon 18 Oct
Moonrise in New Delhi: 19:30 IST
Festival · 30 cities, each on its own sunrise and sunset, in its own time
When is Karwa Chauth 2027?
Monday 18 October
Kartika Krishna Chaturthi (purnimanta) · Ashwina Krishna Chaturthi (amanta)
Karwa Chauth moonrise: what time?
Karwa Chauth timings: sargi, fast, puja, moonrise
New Delhi · IST
- Monday 18 October
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04:43–06:23SargiBrahma Muhurta to sunrise · Tithika’s convention
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06:23–19:30Fastsunrise to moonrise · Tithika’s convention
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17:49–19:30Karwa Chauth puja muhuratfrom sunset, in pradosha, before moonrise · Tithika’s convention
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19:30Moonrisethe fast ends
Karwa Chauth moonrise in 30 cities
Times in each city’s own zone.
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Karwa Chauth 2027 by state and country
Each opens Karwa Chauth 2027 there: the date and each city’s Moonrise.
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 Karwa Chauth celebrated? The katha
Married women fast from sunrise until the moon rises, for their husbands' long life and the family's good fortune, and break the fast by offering water to the moon.
The Vratarāja gives this katha from the Vamana Purana, as Krishna told it to Draupadi. While Arjuna was away doing penance on Mount Indrakila, Draupadi asked Krishna for a vrat that would keep trouble from her family, and he answered with a story Shiva had once told Parvati.
In Indraprastha lived a brahmin, Vedasharma, and his wife Lilavati, with seven sons and one daughter, Veeravati. After her marriage Veeravati was at her father's house on the karaka chaturthi and kept the fast with her brothers' wives. Waiting for the moon, she fell to the ground, faint with hunger and thirst.
One of her brothers could not bear to see her suffer. He climbed a tall tree with a burning torch and showed its light to her as the moon. Veeravati offered arghya to it and ate. Because she broke the fast before the moon had truly risen, her husband died.
Veeravati worshipped Shiva and fasted for a whole year. When the chaturthi came round again, Indrani came down from heaven to keep the same vrat, met her and told her why it had happened. Veeravati kept the fast properly this time, and Indrani sprinkled water where her husband had died and brought him back to life. Krishna told Draupadi to keep the vrat, and the text says that she did.
Sources: Viśvanātha, Vratarāja, with Mādhavācārya's Hindi commentary (Khemraj), Karakacaturthī-vrata
Karwa Chauth puja vidhi and samagri
In the evening of the karaka chaturthi a banyan tree is drawn or set up with Gauri, Shiva, Ganesha and Kartikeya beneath it, and they are worshipped with water, roli and rice, flowers, incense and a ghee lamp. The karvas, spouted earthen pots filled with water or sweets, are offered before them, and the women of the family hear the katha together. In the Vratarāja's full form ten karvas are given away afterwards, to a brahmin and to married women, and the text says the vrat keeps the husband's life long and the household fortunate.
New Delhi · IST
Sources: P. V. Kane, History of Dharmaśāstra, vol. V, pt. 1 (BORI, 1958), pp. 279–280; Viśvanātha, Vratarāja, with Mādhavācārya's Hindi commentary (Khemraj), Karakacaturthī-vrata
Karwa Chauth fasting rules
Married women keep the karaka chaturthi fast from sunrise until the moon has risen, after a meal of sargi before dawn; many keep it without water. The fast is broken only after arghya is offered to the moon itself, for the Vratarāja's katha tells how Veeravati broke it to a torch held up as the moon and lost her husband.
New Delhi · IST
Sources: P. V. Kane, History of Dharmaśāstra, vol. V, pt. 1 (BORI, 1958), pp. 279–280; Viśvanātha, Vratarāja, with Mādhavācārya's Hindi commentary (Khemraj), Karakacaturthī-vrata
Why is Karwa Chauth on Mon 18 Oct?
In New Delhi
Karwa Chauth is on Mon 18 Oct: Chaturthi holds moonrise that night.
Chaturthi at moonrise, 19:30. Chaturthi: 17:52 to 16:42 Tue.
Chaturthi ended at 16:42; moonrise at 20:24 is Panchami. Chaturthi: 17:52 Mon to 16:42.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Line: Moonrise. Light strip: day; dark strip: night.
The Karwa Chauth fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 17:52 on Mon 18 Oct to 16:42 on Tue 19 Oct, so it holds moonrise only on Mon 18 Oct, at 19:30.
The rule
Kartika Krishna Chaturthi (purnimanta) · Ashwina Krishna Chaturthi (amanta)
The Karwa Chauth fast is broken at moonrise.
- Smarta
- the night whose moonrise Chaturthi holds; when it touches both, the earlier; when neither, the later (Dharmasindhu).
- 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.