Makar Sankranti 2027 Fri 15 Jan
Punya kaal in New Delhi: 07:15–13:10 IST
Festival · 30 cities, each on its own sunrise and sunset, in its own time
When is Makar Sankranti 2027?
Friday 15 January
The Sun’s entry into Makara (sidereal, Lahiri)
Makar Sankranti Punya kaal: what time?
Makar Sankranti Punya kaal in 30 cities
Times in each city’s own zone.
India
Nepal
Gulf
South-East Asia
Another place?
Opens Makar Sankranti 2027 for that place
Makar Sankranti 2027 by state and country
Each opens Makar Sankranti 2027 there: the date and each city’s Punya kaal.
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 Makar Sankranti on Fri 15 Jan?
In New Delhi
Makar Sankranti is on Fri 15 Jan: the Sun enters Makara in the night, at 21:10 Thu.
Ring: the Sun’s yearly path, 12 rashis of 30° counted from 0°; stars fixed (sidereal, Lahiri). Close-up: the Sun’s path on one clock (IST): its rashi above, day and night below. Sun: at each sunrise, with its longitude, and where it enters. Box: Punya kala.
Thu 14 Jan. The Sun enters Makara at 21:10.
Fri 15 Jan. The punya kala is the 40 ghatis (16 h) after the ingress: this morning, from sunrise 07:15 to 13:10.
The Sun enters Makara at 21:10 Thu, in the night after sunset (17:45 Thu). The Dharmasindhu then puts the punya kala on the next day: Fri 15 Jan.
The rule
The Sun’s entry into Makara (sidereal, Lahiri)
The Makar Sankranti bath and gifts are made in the punya kala after the Sun’s ingress.
- Smarta
- an ingress by day, or within 3 ghatis after sunset, keeps that day; one later in the night gives the next day’s punya kala (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.